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Hála studied at the Academy in Prague under professors Vlaho Bukovac and Maxmilián Pirner in 1910-1915. In 1923 he permanently settled in the village of Važec in the foothills of the Tatra mountains, which proved an inexhaustible source of inspiration for him. Although he was Czech, Hála joined the Slovak Modernism movement, which was represented by Benka, Bazovský, Fulla and others. Figural motifs, often interpreted as ethnographic studies, were initially predominant in his work; when he painted landscapes, figures almost always found a place in them. This landscape, showing the Tatras at dusk and the roofs of farmhouses, is one of his few landscape paintings in which figures are almost completely absent. This is one reason why the work can be ascribed to the period of Hála's mature work. Oil on canvas, signed on bottom right "J. Hála".