Ľudovít Csordák was born on 8th February, 1864 in Košice, and died on 28th June, 1937 in Košice. In 1874 – 1881 he studied at the Technical secondary school in Košice under V. Klimkovič. In 1883 Csordák started to study drawing at the Tacher Training College in Budapest. Between 1883 – 89 he lived in Munich. From 1889 to 1895 Csordák studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague (professor J. Mařák). Csordák’s plain Ukraine-Polish origin from an ordinary tailor family made him unsuitable for Hungarian petty bourgeois and that is one of the reasons why he inclined to Germany and Prague. Thus, young Csordák got to Munich, from where he was recommended by J. Horálek to study at Mařák’s special landscape course in Prague. Csordák was the only significant Slovak disciple of J. Mařák’s school at the Prague Academy. Four years earlier (1892) than Hollósy in Munich, Mařák pushed forth in his special course the method of open-air painting, that is, creation of work right in the field. His methodology, as well as his artistic view, emerged from the traditional affective Viennese romanticism. These were supplemented by ‘patriotic’ motivations, often idealizing the real state of national matters. Mařák thus inspired Csordák’s beginnings. After graduating from the Prague Academy in 1895, Csordák lived in Košice. After a short time in Turňa nad Bodvou he settled in Slanec (1896 – 1897) and from May 1912, he is back in Košice again. In the period between 1892 – 1912 Csordák made ends meet by teaching drawing in aristocratic families of East Slovakia. He was acknowledged belatedly only in 1929, when he participated in the Prague exhibition titled “Mařák and his disciples”, which brought him into Czech cultural awareness. In 1895, he became a member of the Mánes Prague Society of Artists; In 1907 he was among the founders of Nemzeti Salon in Budapest. He had independent exhibitions in Mukatshevo (1920), Pilsen (1930) and Košice (1909); in 1932, with Halász-Hradil in Prague, in Hradec Králové (1935), Bratislava (1938). His posthumous exhibition was held in 1937 in Východoslovenské múzeum in Košice. His collected works were exhibited in Slovak National Gallery in Bratislava (1952, 1972). Beside Mařák´s creative imprint and the influence by Hungarian luminism, Csordák was as well acquainted with the field landscapists of Russian Peredvizhniki school. Based on all the above stimuli, he created his own landscapist style, in which he sensitively worked with the mood, light modulation of vegetation and countryside, variable local colour, spatial depth and subtly articulated brushwork. Nowadays his neoromantic work is attractive for collectors – it represents an alternative to technological nihilation of nature. Bibliography: Polák, J.: Pozostalosť Ľudovíta Csordáka. Kat. výst. Košice, Východoslovenské múzeum 1937; Vaculík, K.: Ľudovít Čordák. Kat. výst. Košice, Východoslovenská galéria, Bratislava, Slovenská národná galéria 1972.