Artúr was born as Artúr Schlesinger as a son of a Jewish family.
According to his first surname Szalatnai and the fact, that he studied in Budapest, he was a Hungarian speaking architect. In Budapest he changed his family name for the first time. Szalatnai is the Hungarian version of his Slovak home town Slatina.
After his studies he settled down in Bratislava. From there he realized many buidlings in Western Slovakia. He specialized in the construction of buildings in health resorts and houses for doctors with private practices.
After trying some Cubist forms, he started to change to the International Modernism around 1930.
At the end of World War II he had to hide from the Nazis. He decided to add the Slovak version Slatinský of his Hungarian surname Szalatnai. After the end of the war he became a member of the Czechoslovak Communist Party.
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Buildings
Trenčianske Teplice, Slovakia
Music pavilion