Dominik Skutecký was born in 1849 in Gajary. In 1859 Skutecký's family moved to Vienna. He has studied at the Creative Arts Academy in Vienna (1866). Later he got scholarship at the Academy in Venezia in Italy. In the following years, he alternatively worked in Munich, Vienna, and Brno. In 1889 he settled down in Banská Bystrica, where he died in 1921.

Dominik Skutecký's artistic works was an example of realistic, thematic genre painting. From all angles he belonged to talented artist. His creative work obtained figural composition, genre, portrait creation, and finally landscape. The residence in Italy directed his attention to the genre painting. In this field he achieved social successes. After coming-back to Slovakia ansured a turning in his work. His orientation changed to the life and work of common people. He became a painter of ironworkers and boilermakers from Central Slovakia smithy. With this creation he qualitatively completed his work.

Eva Trojanová