🎤 Marián Váross

About

Marián Váross (1923, Martin) was a Slovak art historian, theorist, aesthetician, philosopher and axiologist. He was a founding figure of Slovak art studies — in 1953 he initiated the establishment of a department for art theory and history at the Slovak Academy of Sciences, which later grew into a full institute. He also led the Department of Art History at Comenius University in Bratislava and is regarded as one of the most erudite Slovak intellectuals of the second half of the 20th century.