The Roháče Mountains
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Weisz-Kubínčan made The Roháče Mountains in 1933, a pastel on toned paper. The Roháče are a range in the Western Tatras on the Slovak-Polish border, near where Weisz-Kubínčan lived from 1923 onward. Blue-green peaks rise in layered ridges against an orange-and-gold sky, drawn in dense, overlapping strokes of chalk. The mountains were a constant subject for him — he painted the Slovak landscape obsessively, finding in its terrain something that matched his own restlessness. Weisz-Kubínčan was considered one of the most original artists working in Slovakia between the wars. He hid his paintings before deportation and was killed in transit to Sachsenhausen in 1945.