Katarína Vavrová

After finishing the School of Applied Arts in Bratislava, she continued her studies at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava, the department of book illustration under leadership of prof. Albín Brunovský and prof. Karol Ondreička. She completed a scholarship at Academia delle Belle Arti in Perugia, Italy. She lives and creates in Pezinok.

Katarína Vavrová is an attractive and interesting artist. Her figures both male and female feature a grace and nobleness. They live their own lives, evolving the past and present stories. Her illustrations witness the high qualities of this leading artist´s work distinguished by a poetical and imaginative mood. Her beautiful, proud, peaceful and unruffled figures always bear a strong story behind. They may look a bit static, more as subject to events taking place around them. The most distinctive feature of her illustrations is the enigma. Things and situations are often barely hinted enabling the reader to interpret them according to his feelings and impressions they evoke. The author often makes use of the contrast between fragility and power. The overall impression of her illustrations is nostalgic and harmonious thanks to the colours she uses. The colours are fine, subtle and mystic.

By Mgr. Viera Anoškinová, the art historian

Katarína Vavrová devotes grahic art, exlibris, painting and drawing.

Vládca ohňa (J. Repko, Spolok sv. Vojtecha 1993); O dvanástich mesiačikoch (P. Dobšinský, Ediposs 1994); Dafnis a Chloé (Perfekt 2013); Nebeská rieka (G. Olujić, Perfekt 2014); Štúrovci (J. Čertík, Perfekt 2015, 2018); Marína (A. Sládkovič, Perfekt 2015); A čo je krása? (M. Rúfus, Perfekt 2017); Kytica (K. Jaromír Erben, Perfekt 2019); Kytica (K. J. Erben, Perfekt 2019); Meduška (E. Čepčeková, Perfekt 2022).

Katarína Varová. Maľba a grafika. Bratislava : FO ART, 2007. 322 s. ISBN 978-80-88973-36-2.

Slovník českých a slovenských výtvarných umělců 1950 - 2008. XIX. V - Vik. Ostrava : Výtvarné centrum Chagall, 2008, s. 221-222. ISBN 80-86171-29-6.

KŘÍŽ, Luděk - VÁVERKA, Patrik: Katarína Vavrová : exlibris 1999 - 2019. Podolí u Brna : Protis, 2021. 278 s. ISBN 978-80-87844-14-4. 

2006 Martin Benka Award 2005

2013  The most beautiful children´s book of the autumn - Dafnis a Chloé

2014 The Most Beautiful Books of Slovakia 2013 - Dafnis a Chloé

2015 The most beautiful children´s book of the summer - Nebeská rieka

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