![]() ![]() ![]() The effort to create such a museum in the birthplace of Warhol’s Parents was made before the collapse of the Eastern Bloc. Photos: courtesy of AWMMA Archive Eastern Bloc avant-garde The collection also features works by Andy’s brother, Paul, as well as Paul’s son, James, a renowned children’s illustrator. Its permanent exhibition includes 160 works by Andy Warhol and his memorabilia. It arose from the initiative of the Warhols and Michal Bycko, who achieved the establishment of a museum by the Slovak Ministry of Culture and is the second largest place where the artist’s works are located. The Warhol brothers: Paul with his children, Andy, and John Andy Warhol with his mother Julia Warhol (bottom row) Julia Warhol An display at the museum showing family/background photos and artifacts. (Top, from left) Brothers, Andy and John Warhol. This pride extends to the nearby town of Medzilaborce, where, in 1991, the Andy Warhol Museum of Modern Art opened. His parents were Lemkos, belonging to the highlander ethnic group living in the area of Austria-Hungary, currently on the tripoint of Poland, Slovakia, and Ukraine. Their village, then Mikó, and now Miková in northeastern Slovakia, is proud to hold claim to the great artist’s heritage. ![]() The artist was born in 1928 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania as the fourth child of an immigrant family. From Medzialiborce to Pittsburgh and back again Apart from the Andy Warhol Museum in his native Pittsburgh, in the USA, there is a second museum solely dedicated to the creative genius: The Andy Warhol Museum of Modern Art in Medzilaborce, Slovakia. He converged four portraits of Marilyn Monroe into one painting, immortalized a can of ready-made soup on canvas, and famously said, “In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes.” But the fame of Andy Warhol has far surpassed 15 minutes and goes well beyond international borders. ![]()
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