Ľudovít Štrompach was a painter and restorer. He was born on 23 June 1923 in Budapest to Jozsef Strompach, who was an artistic carpenter in the service of Count Pálffy, and Petronella, née Heiszter, born in Nováky, whose parents, siblings and she herself were all employees in the service of Count Pálffy at Bojnice Castle (the count’s personal coachman, artistic gardener, laundress and cobbler). Ľudovít Štrompach’s fond relationship with Bojnice Castle and its surroundings lasted throughout his entire life.

From 1943 to 1946 he studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest (Hungarian: Országos Magyar Királyi Képzőművészeti Főiskola) in the class of Gyula Rudnay, and at the School of Applied Arts in Prague under Ján Želibský. In 1946 he moved to Prague, and in 1952 he permanently relocated to Slovakia. Here, alongside his own artistic work, he devoted himself to the restoration of paintings, sculptures, churches and castles, the decoration of frescoes on many housing estates in the Upper Nitra region, and collecting.

He is the founder of the Regional Gallery in Bojnice (1956) and, together with his wife, academic painter Magdaléna Štrompachová, was co-founder of the first fine arts department at the Primary Art School in Prievidza (15 March 1963).

In the 1980s he participated in the restoration of the sacred works of the Piarist Church and the Church of St. Bartholomew in Prievidza. Ľudovít Štrompach’s work abroad relates primarily to the cities of Prague, Budapest, Vienna, Munich and Garmisch-Partenkirchen, where many paintings and graphic works were created. From his Prague period come paintings such as Snowy Prague and Charles Bridge, as well as many family portraits, which are located for the most part in Bratislava. After the death of his wife in 1988, he lived mainly in Bratislava, and from 2003 he lived there permanently.

He died on 5 March 2009 in Bratislava.

The works of Ľudovít Štrompach on the Píly housing estate are particularly prominent on the gable ends of 5 miners’ hostel buildings (Pauleho, Fr. Madvu and Trhová streets), and many of his striking sgrafitos can be found on Björnsona Street.

Further works are also located on Svätoplukova and Štefánikova streets.

Beyond Prievidza, Ľ. Štrompach also created the artistic decoration of the façade of the former Castle Restaurant in Bojnice, where he collaborated with the exceptional architect František Fackenberg.