The Portraitist of Bijacovce The light in Bijacovce settles heavily over the landscape, a quiet backdrop for the life of Andrej Bača. Born in 1874, he moves through the world not merely as a painter, but as a man of many lenses and tools. He is a portraitist, a graphic artist, and a photographer, a pedagogue who understands the mechanics of sight. His early training begins under Štefan Hegedűs in Košice, where the foundations of his vi…