Ladislav Gandl was born on 8th December 1919 in Kalinovo near the town of Lučenec. In 1950 he graduated the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague (department of professor V. Sychra). From the early 1950s on, he worked in Bratislava – initially, as a pedagogue at the University of Arts in Bratislava. Two stages of Ladislav Gandl’s life are linked to his native village of Kalinovo, where he spent his childhood and youth. In 1938, he passed the school-leaving examination at the Grammar School in Lučenec where he encountered the academic painter, František Gyurkovits. Here, Gandl painted copies of Murillo. Together with Gyurkovits, they were painting landscapes inspired by the beautiful meanders of the river Ipeľ. The second stage stems naturally from the first. After a difficult disease, he recovered with the painter’s palette in his hand by returning to the meadows of Kalinovo glowing in the sun, full of warmth, sunshine and shadows, joyous moods, gentle child’s perceptions, filled with fair colours of ease and relax. Gandl was a natural-born lyricist with amazing sense for sonorous colouring and pictorial introversion. His monumental creation in architecture is extensive as well. His life and work came to an end in 1992. Bibliography: Podušel, L. : Ladislav Gandl. Kat. SNG, Bratislava 1986.