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Vladimír Fultner in the labyrinth of Czech architecture up to 1914
Pencák, Marcel ; Švácha, Rostislav (advisor) ; Wittlich, Petr (referee) ; Vybíral, Jindřich (referee)
The paper focuses on the monographic encompassing of the life and work of Vladimír Fultner (1887-1918), whose name is often neglected or forgotten in Czech architectural history. However, careful research reveals that his creation was founded upon extraordinary talent. These works achieved refined artistic sophistication and indisputable originality on the backdrop of contemporary architectural development. He thus deserves reassessment of his importance in forming a domestic modernistic tradition, though it is concentrated in a short period (1908-1914) and limited space for realization (Hradec Králové, Jaroměř, Prague, Kutná Hora, and Brno). Fultner began studying in the autumn of 1904 at Czech Technical University in Prague, but its building construction program led by Josef Schulz and Jan Koula was considered backwards by modern creators. Influenced by agile schoolmates (P. Janák, J. Chochol, V. Hofman, E. Králík, O. Novotný ad.), he became involved in the activity of the revived Association of Students of Architecture (Spolek posluchačů architektury). He ceased proper studies at this school in 1906, and apparently got his education within the circle of pupils and studio employees of Jan Kotěra. Like his contemporaries, Fultner gained the opportunity to work on small jobs for an exhibition by the Chamber...
Art Symposia in the 1960s
Fišer, Marcel ; Wittlich, Petr (advisor) ; Klimešová, Marie (referee) ; Šetlík, Jiří (referee)
The Dissertation Abstract The dissertation deals with the tradition of holding art symposia (with a special focus on sculpture symposia) since their origins until the beginning of the 1970s. Both of them coming from German-speaking regions, so far only two works have been dedicated to the topic. However, they both focus on sculpture symposia and totally neglect other disciplines. The fact that they - for perfectly understandable reasons - mostly deal with art from Eastern Europe and overseas is their second weakness. Thus East-European art symposia are commented on scarcely and without knowledge of the local context. The text of the dissertation is therefore for the fist time fully based on an extensive research of the wide spectrum of symposia with respect to their geographical and disciplinary aspects. Thanks to their heavy influence, sculpture symposia, nevertheless, tend to occupy most space. The text places symposia into the context of general development in visual arts and sculpture after World War 2, especially with respect to some on-going contemporary trends, such as the phenomenon of open-air exhibitions, foundation of sculpture parks, development of public art, emerging of abstract art or welded metal sculptures of the later period. The major part of the text includes data about all art symposia...
Fine Art in the Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia
Pech, Milan ; Wittlich, Petr (advisor) ; Lahoda, Vojtěch (referee) ; Rousová, Hana (referee)
The thesis deals with fine arts in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. It analyzes Czech fine art during the Nazi occupation of World War Two, concentrating on its official component that has not yet been deeply researched. The author surveyed archives, press and literature of the period. The aim was to identify key themes in the public discussion about artistic issues and to trace developments in the legal status of Czech fine art under the occupation. First, a brief portrait of the historical context of 1938 to 1945, accompanied by identifying several pathological phenomena that occupation and the war brought to Czech society. Those that crept into the fine arts are interpreted from a psychoanalytic point of view. Next the author focuses on the official cultural policy of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. He notes the short and long-term objectives of Nazi policies and their impact on the workings of cultural life in Czech society. He speaks about radical conservative critiques of modern art, which accused the avant-garde of mercantilism, of politicizing art, of being foreign, and arbitrary. So-called "degenerate" art (Entartete Kunst) is also briefly mentioned. A term that was used to defame and denounce modern art. For the first time, an unknown list of Czech "degenerate" painters...
The medieval architecture of the Mendicant orders in Silesia
Jarošová, Markéta ; Wittlich, Petr (advisor) ; Royt, Jan (referee) ; Kořán, Ivo (referee)
The subject of this dissertation thesis is medieval architecture of mendicant orders in Silesia and focuses on convent churches of the Minorites and Dominicans. The chosen subject has not been hitherto treated in detail in specialized literature neither in Polish, German or Czech art history. Mendicant orders in Silesia are studied especially by historians who research into medieval history of these orders and, above all, the formation and development of order provinces. The focal points of the thesis research concern preserved buildings of mendicants orders built in the period between the 13th and 14th centuries. Every individual building is presented as a monograph in the form of an extended catalogue entry. The catalogue of medieval buildings of mendicant orders is the crucial part of this dissertation thesis. In this list, individual buildings are divided according to orders. First, we mention history of individual medieval towns and history of particular convent complexes. Further, we focus on the location of mendicant buildings within medieval urbanism of towns. Next, the formal analysis of each building follows defining the most important phases in building the convents, especially the medieval stage of building. Each entry contains an evaluation of cultural and historical importance of a...
Photographic prints and forming processes and their relations to another artistic media
Hrabina, Martin ; Wittlich, Petr (advisor) ; Rakušanová, Marie (referee)
This thesis is devided in two related fields. First of them observe photography in the 19th century in a broader context. Is focused on photography which borrow traditional art rules and aspects in aim to get an equal status between fine arts. This first part helped valuate technics of so-called photographic processes in the second part of the thesis. This domain of photography is concentrated not only on technology but also on problems of amateurism or a theory of artistic photography of the time. The last chapter presents the most important Bohemian representatives of this profession and demonstrates a broad scale of artistic posibilites on concrete samples.
Jaroslav Špillar (1869-1917) and folklorism in Czech fine art
Fišerová, Hana ; Wittlich, Petr (advisor) ; Prahl, Roman (referee)
The aim of this thesis is to make a clear reflection of folklorism in the Czech Art Nouveau painting at the turn of 19th and 20th century. This era is characterized by the effort of artists to follow the development in western art as well as to find their own Czech way to the modern art. The establishment of new societies of art and the impact of art critics - leading personalities of cultural life - is another feature of this period. The last quarter of 19th century is the time connected with the national revival era, when the folk culture is seen as pure and original. The culmination of so called "ethnographic movement" is the Czech-Slavonic Ethnographical Exhibition which took place in Prague in 1895. This event was the main reason for the fact that many artist suddenly started to feel sympathies for the folk topics even though in the past they were interested in different themes. In the middle of these two tendencies: desire to follow the western development and the attempt to find an inspiration in folk culture, grew the work of so called "regional painters". This thesis aims to characterize this phenomenon and to exemplify it on the basis of artwork of selected regional artists. Main part of this thesis is dedicated to the life and work of Jaroslav Špillar who was the significant figure of...
Painting and photography around 1900
Voháňková, Romana ; Wittlich, Petr (advisor) ; Prahl, Roman (referee)
This master thesis focuses on the influences of the new medium of photography on the czech painting around 1900. An important part of such a topic is the role of the photography as a sketch for a painter. Another important question is, how was the impact of the visual form of photography on painting, for instance the use of photographic illusion in painting or the influences of chronophotography and moment photography. An important issue is an essential difference between photography and painting in colour. Photography widely extended the visual experience around 1900, as it enabled to fix the images from the area of science and pseudoscience. The question also is, how these new images influenced the painting. This theses also describes, how painters commented on the new medium and how they perceived the attempt of photography to become a legitime subject of fine art. Key words: painting, photography, fine art around 1900
Jan Toorop and Czech Art
Pražanová, Kristýna ; Lahoda, Vojtěch (advisor) ; Wittlich, Petr (referee)
This bachelor thesis focuses on the Dutch painter of Javanese descent, Jan Toorop (1858- 1928), and the traces of his influence in the Czech art scene. The first part contains the biography of this prominent Dutch painter, who arrived in the Netherlands at the age of 13. In the early 1880s, he went to Brussels to study, and participated in the cultural life there. During his life he spent several longer periods of time in England, where his wife Annie Hall came from. His name is closely associated with places like Amsterdam, Katwijk aan Zee, Domburg, Nijmegen, and The Hague, where he died. The second part deals with Toorop's artwork in which we can find realistic, impressionistic, as well as pointillistic works. But his probably most important work was created in his period of symbolism. After 1900, his artwork took on the style of mystical Catholicism. The last part of this thesis deals with Toorop's artwork in the context of Czech art scene and makes an attempt to find possible parallels between his work and the work of Czech artists.
The theme of the death in Bohumil Kubista's work in the years 1912-1918
Richterová, Helena ; Lahoda, Vojtěch (advisor) ; Wittlich, Petr (referee)
The topic of this study are the paintings on the death theme in the meridian works of Bohumil Kubišta around the time of the first World War. This dilemma has not been elaborated on in any previous publication. The task focuses on individual paintings complemented by relevant sub-chapters as the painter's life was full of major circumstances influencing his work. Though the main focus is on Kubišta's production from the period between 1912 and 1918, the painting Resurrection of Lazarus (1911) was appended. This painting concludes Kubišta's classicist period, and becomes an important milestone in the painter's understanding of death which is still illuminated by the interpretation of old masters. St. Sebastian (1912) opens the dilemma in pursuit of self-stylization and response to the contemporary events. The other mentioned paintings, which are always depicting two figures aiming to detach us from reality, violently gripping the soul - Kiss of Death, Murder, Hypnotist (1912). The artist is portraying the relationship of the actor with his victim. Apart from figurative paintings, the theme of vanitas appears, for example in Still Life with Skull (1912). The enumeration of paintings is concluded by portrayals of military operations Fakir (1914), Hanged (1915).

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