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Related e. Wikipedia Wiktionary Shop. He became a professor of graphic techniques at the Escuela de las Artes del Libro and at the University of Mexico City from to Between and he lived in New York. In he returned to Slovakia, where he taught at the Slovak University of Technology and at the Comenius University. In when the Communists took power in Czechoslovakia he left for the United States again.

He settled in Bryn Mawr , a suburb of Philadelphia. From the 60's he lived retired into himself and created a special symbolical-mythological style during this period. In the s he lived in Tucson, where he died at the age of Initially, he concentrated on graphic techniques, which he later enriched by drawing and painting in Mexico.

His paintings are often dramatic in presentation which led to the belief that he created a Slovak variation of expressionism at a European level. He remained true to the limits of graphic art in terms of form and shape. Artistic, ethnic, and social aspects merge in his work. Although the primary motive of his works was man, social motives dominate his expressive work and this tendency equates to the hard and harsh style of his engravings and drawings.

His works frequently depicted suffering, penury and human pain. He also created numerous woodcuts.