The author of the portrait is the Romani artist Jozef Fečo. The portrait is one of the outcomes of the project Roma Theater – Secret Values of the Largest Minority in the Visegrad Region (2020); the project was supported by the International Visegrad Fund. The portrait is painted on canvas, the genre is street art. The measures of the portrait are 100 cm x 120 cm. The picture is in the frame.
DEZIDER BANGA
He was born on August 24, 1939 in the village of Hradište, Partizánske district. He received his university education at Comenius University in Bratislava, at the Faculty of Arts, in the field of Slovak language and history. He taught at the grammar school in Trebišov for six years, and for the next ten years he was the dramaturg of the Literary Editorial Office of Slovak Television in Košice. From 1979 worked as the editor of the monthly Nová cesta in Bratislava, from 1986 to 1990 as its editor-in-chief. Later, as the chairman of the civic association Romani kultura, he was the editor-in-chief of the Roma monthly and the children’s magazine Luluďi. Since 2009 he has been the holder of the Ľudovít Štúr III. Class for extraordinary merits for development in the field of culture, especially Roma literature.
Recorded: November 30, 2020