Education
He went to high school in Banská Bystrica and studied at the Drawing and Painting Department of the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, his main professors were Martin Benka, Gustáv Mallý and Ján Mudroch.
He went to high school in Banská Bystrica and studied at the Drawing and Painting Department of the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, his main professors were Martin Benka, Gustáv Mallý and Ján Mudroch.
Together they had three children: Vladimír (born in 1946, living in Bojnice), Terézia (*1947, living in Croix, France), Mária (*1951, living in Martin). After graduation he worked as high school teacher in Martin. Because of his religious activities he was condemned to seven year imprisonment and stayed from 1953 to 1957 in the prisons of Ružomberok, Praha and Valdice.
He experienced interrogation, intimidation, demanding prison conditions and threatening, too.
He spent five months in solitary confinement where he wrote thirty poems depicting his feelings and talks to God. lieutenant is a kind of his chronicle from prison.
As he was forbidden to continue to work as high school teacher, he started a career as book illustrator, painter and church artist (stained glass windows in 25 churches and 21 "Stations of the Cross"). He is now living in Martin.
In 1968-1969 he stayed for a study visit to Paris and Brittany.