Apart from several authors who remain anonymous to us from the second half of the 19th century, in western Slovakia glass painting was strongly influenced by and essentially represented the Salzmann family from Pata: Ferdinand (1830 – 1913) and Alexander (1870 – 1959).
Many of their paintings are represented in museums in western Slovakia and a large collection is part of the collection of the Slovak National Gallery.
With their themes, their distinctive processing, dimensions, glass quality, and frames, they are significantly different from the glass paintings of central and eastern Slovakia. They differ mainly in rich ornamentation based on large-scale décor with motifs, whose prototypes and colors can be found in Austrian Sandle, but partly also in the Southern Czech Pohoří and in Moravian-Silesian painting.
The western Slovak painting also took up themes from Moravian painting, especially with Baroque narrative legends inspired by the New Testament.

Ferdinand Salzmann, whose father came to Slovakia from Bavaria before the mid-19th century, lived in Pata near Galanta. He was the most prominent figure in the family. His son Alexander continued his themes.
The reddish-brown and brown outlining of the faces of the Madonna, the Infant Jesus, and the Sacred Heart in Ferdinand’s paintings, modeling with pink in the last period of his work also blend with the early handwriting of Alexander.
It is likely that they worked together on paintings during a certain period.
In the paintings of both authors, a conscientiously drawn line and a floral pattern are evident, characterized by large-scale rosettes, lobed flowers, and buds with leaves in a red-yellow-green rendition with a central scene, evoking a Baroque model.
The graphic composition of the Salzmann family’s glass paintings very often changes details in small and larger elements, which prosaically transform the whole scene, giving it the character of naive painting, introducing an element of fantasy into the basic scheme. Thanks to their imagination, they left behind impressive and innovative paintings.