Anton Jasusch was born on April 25, 1882 in Košice, he died on July 3, 1965 in Košice. From 1904 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest (Prof. E. Ballo), from 1906 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, and from 1907 at the Académie Julian in Paris. In the years 1908-1914 he lived in Košice. He survived the period 1914-1916 at the front and in the years 1916-1920 in Russian captivity. From 1920 he settled permanently in Košice. He found his first artistic instruction outside academia, in painting by K. Ferenczy and J. Ripla-Rónai. His next trip led to Munich, to A. backe's private school, where a new symbolism and expressionism had just culminated. However, he did not see the exhibition premiere or the founding of the group Der Blaue Reiter, which influenced the formation of expressionism. In 1907 he was already in Paris at the Julian Academy. Upon his return, he settled in Košice, where his work reached a variable level. The burgher public did not buy the most artistically and formally mature works of 1910-14 and 1920-23, because they did not understand Art Nouveau symbolism and the emerging style of futurism and expressionism. Also distant from her was the metaphysical and cosmic focus of Jasusch as a special artistic and personal nature. This is one of the reasons why the author managed to push himself into the position of the plein air (even his Tatra plein airs retain some of the discipline, drawing and color construction of his avant-garde works). Anton Jasusch together with his generational colleague, the prematurely deceased painter from Košice, Konstantin Kóvári-Kačmarik, were the first to react programmatically to the binding limitations of Impressionism, Luminism and Art Nouveau with their domestic modifications. They thus became pioneers of post-impressionist tendencies in Slovak art culture in the first decades of the 20th century. And in the context of other personalities of Košice (Jakoby, Bauer) and the creators of the first East Slovak avant-garde. Literature: Saučin, L .: Fine Arts in Eastern Slovakia 1918-1938. Košice 1964, p. 29-31 and 46; Štraus, T .: Anton Jasusch and the Birth of the East Slovak Avant-Garde of the Twenties. Bratislava 1966; Haščáková-Vízdalová, G .: Profiles. A brief overview of visual artists working in eastern Slovakia from 1900 to the present. Košice 1982.