Buzna Alexander

*14 January 1868 Krušovce - †8 April 1945 Nižná

Priest and painter. He studied at a gymnasium in Bratislava and theology graduated in Esztergom. He was ordained a priest in the year 1892. Later he studied painting at art academies in Budapest, Vienna and Rome. In his creation oil-paintings prevail. He was a portrait painter, he also devoted to landscape-painting. He was inspirited by folklore and is an author of several pictures of Slovak folk costumes. He created mainly sacral works which we can find in churches in Veľké Blahovo, Podolie, Pobedim or in the village Banka.