The Landscape of a Polymath The life of Štefan Gerstner begins in Ostrihom, where the year 1939 marks his entry into a world that would eventually see him master many forms of expression. He does not settle into a single lane. Instead, his identity shifts between the roles of a publicist, a landscape painter, and a painter. His work is a collection of observations, a way of documenting the world through both the written word and the b…