Ján Kulich was a Slovak sculptor, medalist and university teacher.
They are representatives of the realistic-formalist line in Slovak sculpture. In his early work, he drew mainly on folk motifs. It is about the laureate of the Klement Gottwald State Prize, a national artist, one of the most prominent Czechoslovak standardizers of Slovak culture and art education, who was a member of the culture department of the ÚV KSS, rector of VŠVU in the years 1973-1989. As an important functionary, he was closely connected with the process of normalization in the Czechoslovakia after 1968.(source: Wikipedia)