Anton Djuračka was born on 22nd February 1904 in Žilina and died on 3rd November 1971 in Bratislava. After graduating the Grammar School and the Academy of Commerce in Bratislava he passed the entrance exams to the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. In 1923 – 1930, he studied painting and graphics under professors J. Loukota, J. Obrovský and M. Švabinský. Already during his studies, he started to participate in exhibitions with the Society of Slovak Artists (1926). After graduation, he settled in Bratislava dedicating his time to applied art and smaller-sized works – drawing, painting, and graphics. He was a member of the Association of Slovaks Artists (1931), Society of Slovak Fine Arts (1939 – 1945), The Bohúň Society (1946) and the ZSVU. He taught at a technical school in Bratislava (1938) and a grammar school in Skalica (1939). In 1940 – 1943 he was a designer and lithographer in Tekla company in Skalica. With the members of the platoon of artists he went to Crimea and Italy (1943 – 1944). After liberation, he lived and worked in Bratislava. His early death meant a premature end to his work, which did not go through any major transitions and gradually developed in calm fine-tuning of realistic standpoints in drawing, painting, graphic arts and perfection of his graphic techniques. Source: Slovenský biografický slovník I. zväzok, A – D, Martin 1986, str. 476.