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of the war.9 Jozef Cincik, a Ph.D graduate from the University of Bratislava,
did not participate in its educational mission. Although he was appointed
professor of Art History by President Jozef Tiso in 1945, he emigrated the
very same year.10 Apart from the aforementioned educators, students interest-
ed in art history could meet with young Alźbeta Güntherovâ Mayerovâ. As
a former student of the Seminar, she served as a part-time museum lecturer
along with other jobs. Her work at the university was apparently related to
Prof. Zâkavec's absence due to his illness and his eventual departure shortly
before the war. She was appointed Lecturer of Museology at the Faculty of Arts
of the Slovak University in December 1940. Subsequently she had to under-
go a political examination proving her non-Jewish origins in order to retain
the position until 1952.11 (ill. 2) Although she lectured on only two courses
a year related to museology and monument preservation practice, they were
mostly the only art history-related courses available after the death of E. Dos-
tał.12 The Seminar of Art History at the Slovak University was continuously
offered during the war, but only to a limited extent. According to the course
schedule from the 1944/1945 academic year, the only two courses related to
art history were taught by Alźbeta Güntherovâ Mayerovâ: Monument Pres-

9 Ciulisovâ, Dejepis umenia..., p. 28. He was expected to start in the winter term
1938/39, nevertheless in 1938 he returned to Czechia. For more information, see: Poeta
Vaclavovi Menclovi. Zbornik stûdii k otazkam interpretacie stredoeurópskeho umenia,
eds. D. Borutovâ, Ś. Oriśko, Bratislava 2000. After the war he temporarily returned to the
university in Bratislava. 95+ Dejiny umenia..., pp. 67-68, 96.
10 J. Okâl, Dr. Jozef Cincik. Pûtnik dvoch svetov, Ontario 1980.
11 K. Kolbiarz Chmelinovâ, "The pedagogical activity of Alźbeta Güntherovâ-Maye-
rovâ ( 1905-1973) at the Comenius University." The manuscript of the lecture that revised
the hitherto knowledge was presented at the Faculty of Arts at the Comemus University on
March 20th, 2019 and will be published in Ars 1/2020. For an earlier comprehensive article
on Güntherovâ-Mayerovâ, see: Stretnutie so zivotom a dielom Alzbety Güntherovej-May-
erovej (1905-1973). Zbornik prispevkov z kolokvia Umelecko historickej spoloćnosti Slov-
enska 27.11.2003, Bratislava 2003.
12 E. Sefcâkovâ, "Alźbeta Güntherovâ-Mayerovâ - źivot a dielo," in: Stretnutie so
zivotom..., p. 25, footnote 41. Progress reports indicate that she lectured in Conservation
and Installation Works in Museums and Determining Genuinity of Art Works in 1942/43,
Sculpture Techniques and Heritage Preservation in 1944, and Basic Terminology of Col-
lecting and Museology and Development of Styles in Visual Art in 1946. A manuscript of
the lecture on sculpture and its techniques from 1945 is in the Archiv vÿtvarného umenia
Slovenskej nârodnej galerie v Bratislave / Archive of Visual Art of the Slovak National Gal-
lery in Bratislava (AFA SNG BA), Osobnÿ fond A. Güntherovâ-Mayerovâ, sign. 10 E 342,
E. Peterajovâ, "Pôsobenie Alźbety Güntherovej-Mayerovej na Vysokej śkole vÿtvarnÿch
umeni," in: Stretnutie so zivotom..., p. 100.