(b Jablonec, Slovakia, 1826; d Zagreb, 1 Jan 1863). Slovak painter, active in Croatia. Along with the Slovene Mihael Stroj and the Croats Vjekoslav Karas and Ivan Simonetti, he is one of the small number of important painters in mid-19th-century Croatia. He worked in a Viennese porcelain manufactory, and in 1846 he enrolled at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Vienna, but he left after two years. A painter in the Biedermeier style, he successfully exhibited his first important work, Landscape from Kobenzel, in Vienna in 1848. Two years later he accepted an invitation from Bishop Haulik to come to Zagreb, where he settled for the rest of his life. He painted a number of large, representative portraits in oil as well as a series of smaller, more intimate ones, often in miniature, in watercolour. His treatment was in the Viennese manner and his subjects were members of the nobility or the bourgeoisie (e.g. portrait of Aleksandrina Kulmer, 1859; Zagreb, Kulmer priv. col.). On his travels through Lika and the Croatian coast in 1855 he painted a number of fine, translucent watercolours and executed a series of accurate drawings that are considered to be among his most notable achievements (examples, U. Zagreb Lib. and Zagreb, Gal. Mod. A.). He also painted a number of religious compositions for churches in northern Croatia.