Peter Ondrika was a Slovak painter.  There are very few articles about him in English and he is not even known in Slovakia.

 Peter loved painting and had been painting since he was a child.  He started using oil paint when he was 10 years old.  He was inspired by Leonardo da Vinci - you can see it in his paintings.

 When he was a teenager, his father died of cancer, leaving him deeply traumatized.

 Unfortunately, Peter suffers from depression and alcoholism.  He died in 1990, aged just 43, when his partner and godmother found him in the bathtub, dead of heart failure.

 He used to cut up some of his failed artworks and then glue them back together or just paint over the pieces he didn't like.  He also gave away his paintings as gifts, so not many pieces have survived.  For this reason, he has only had a few exhibitions so far.
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