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Michael Osvald Thun's Art Commissions - Inseparable Part of a Baroque Aristocrat's Image in the Second Half of the 17 th Century
Pátek, Jakub ; Prahl, Roman (advisor) ; Biegel, Richard (referee) ; Šroněk, Michal (referee)
Résumé Michael Osvald Thun's art commissions - inseparable part of a baroque aristocrat's image in the second half of the 17th century The dissertation deals with the art commissions of wealthy count Michael Osvald Thun who represents one of key builders in Bohemia in the second half of the 17th century. Beside buildings, an emphasis is also placed on other categories of art commissions, for example collections of sculptures and paintings. In the introduction, I define a terminology and summarize an existing research in the field of aristocrat art commissions. The next part analyses used sources, primary and secondary, dealing with history of the house of Thun, its financial standing, and person of Michael Osvald Thun. The fourth part is dedicated directly to Michael Osvald Thun, where I describe his family situation, upbringing, education process and adulthood. He was raised with respect to family values, public duty and administration of the family property that was a prerequisite for art commissions. The fifth part compares Thun's art commissions with art commissions of his siblings. Some of them hold significant bishop and archbishop posts. This helps up uncover ties and positional interactions between different art commissioners. The sixth part is focused on Michael Osvald Thun's art commissions where...
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Funeral art in Prague 1850-1950
Holzapfelová, Vladislava ; Rakušanová, Marie (advisor) ; Prahl, Roman (referee) ; Foltýnová, Marie (referee)
of the disertation thesis Vladislava Holzapfelová Funeral art in cemeteries in Prague 1850-1950 The thesis deals with the funeral art found in selected cemeteries in Prague during the period 1850-1950. It tries to show the progress of this branch of art from the historicist styles up to the sorela art. It describes the types of tomb stones, trends in art and activities of sculptors and architects who attended to the sepulcral orders. Beside those artists, there were also successful stonecutter workshops, whose production is found in high numbers in Prague's necropolises. The thesis also tries to explain the changes in reflection of the death in the society which came in this certain period like for example cremation or disinclining from the religion. Some chapters are also attended to the symbolical decoration of the graves or other sepulcral topics like funeral notices or titles on tomb stones. Keywords grave, tomb, tomb stone, cemetery, funeral, art, architecture, sculpture, stonecutter, symbolic
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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...
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August Brömse. The artist and his paintings
Kašková, Gabriela ; Wittlich, Petr (advisor) ; Prahl, Roman (referee)
The work is based on the estate of August Brömse in the Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie Regensburg, which contains over 1050 letters from the period between 1902 and 1910, and a large collection of sketches and pictures. The structure of the work is determined by this material. The first part is focused on the period up to 1910. On the basis of his correspondence it investigates the artist's life after his studies in Berlin up until his establishment as Professor of Graphics at the Academy of Arts in Prague. The text not only provides a biographical study, but also gives an insight into the cultural life of "Czech Germans" in the specific context of the struggles between Czechs and Germans in Bohemia. Of special interest is the "fight" for the two posts for German professors at the Academy, which lasted four years and was very important for Brömse. The second part is devoted to Brömse's paintings from the period after 1910, which have not yet been treated adequately in research on the artist. It ties in with the first part, which shows the starting points of Brömse's painting and also comments on important pictures in the context of the artist's work. The second part offers an analysis of selected significant paintings. After 1910 Brömse concentrates on religious themes in his work. Two thematic issues have...
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Annual Gifts of the Art Union in Prague during the 2nd half of the 19th Century
Donné, Tereza ; Prahl, Roman (advisor) ; Machalíková, Pavla (referee)
In the beginning my thesis deals with the Kunstvereins, artistic associations which achieved significant development in the first half of the 19th century. It also concerns with the history of Krasoumna jednota (Fine Arts Union) - the first Czech society founded purely for spreading art among general public by means of releasing annual gifts and organizing yearly exhibitions. The work also treats shortly Spolecnost vlasteneckych pratel umeni (Society of Patriotic Friends of the Arts) which initiated the activity of Krasoumna jednota. The text itself analyzes development of graphic techniques used in the annual graphic gifts. It clarifies the significance of the gifts released by the art societies, deals with the selected gifts of the Krasoumna jednota and their inspiration with emphasis on engravers of German origin. In the end the work briefly compares three Czech societies for spreading of art which coexisted at the same time, and their gifts; Krasoumna jednota, Jednota umelcu vytvornych and Umelecka beseda.
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Adolf Liebscher 1857-1919
Dlábková, Markéta ; Prahl, Roman (advisor) ; Slavická, Milena (referee)
Adolf Liebscher belongs among the artists known as the "National Theatre Generation." Like ist foremost representatiwes, F. Ženíšek, M. Aleš and V. Hynais, Liebscher also produced an oeuvre of great diversity - he created decorative paintings and historical compositions, was interested in folklore painting, his drawings were published by the major journals of that time as Zlatá Praha or Světozor and rus illustrations appeared in many albums, books of poems and novels. Liebscher was bom on March 11, 1857, into a family of a Provincial Committee engineer Josef Liebscher. His older brother Karel (1851 - 1906) later became an appreciated landscape painter, with whom Adolf often cooperated. In 1875 - 1878, Adolf Liebscher studied at the School of Applied Arts in Vienna, in the three-year course for hand-drawing teachers under F. Laufberger. After obtaining a diploma, he entered the studio of E. A. Donadini for half-a-year, where he prepared his proposals for the competition for the National Theatre. In 1879, he was awarded in the competition and was commissioned to carry out some of his proposals in the passage of the theatre. Here he created eight lunette allegories of Dramatic arts.
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Otakar Lebeda (1877-1901)
Hulíková, Veronika ; Wittlich, Petr (advisor) ; Prahl, Roman (referee)
Otakar Lebeda patřil, vedle Antonína Slavíčka a Františka Kavána, k největším talentům krajinářské školy Julia Mařáka na pražské Akademii. Svůj život se rozhodl ukončit měsíc před čtyřiadvacátými narozeninami. Dílo, které vytvořil v rozmezí pouhých devíti let (a to do něj započítáváme i pět let strávených na Akademii), je svým rozsahem i obsahem impozantní. Jeho jednotlivé etapy můžeme měřit na týdny a dny, podle toho jak se Lebeda pohyboval po krajině doma i v cizině. Přesto se mu podařilo dotknout se všech podstatných problémů soudobého malířství. Dnes se zdá jeho zařazení do vývoje českého umění konce 19. století nezpochybnitelné a jeho práce najdeme v každé publikaci, která se tímto obdobím zabývá. První umělcova monografie vyšla však po více než padesáti letech od jeho úmrtí a na dlouhou dobu se stala jediným zdrojem informací. Možnost podrobně prozkoumat dochovanou Lebedovu pozůstalost a korespondenci mne vedla k rozhodnutí zvolit si dílo Otakara Lebedy jako téma diplomové práce. Mým záměrem je podrobně zmapovat jeho umělecký odkaz, který je možné od posledního zpracování rozšířit o nově objevené obrazy a kresby. Prostřednictvím dopisů se také pokusím přiblížit jeho osobnost.
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Jiří Kotalík and the United States of America
Červená, Veronika ; Sekyrka, Tomáš (advisor) ; Prahl, Roman (referee)
The main focus of this diploma thesis is Jiří Kotalík, his relationship with the United States of America and projects in which he participated as the director of the National Gallery in Prague. To understand projects, it was necessary to clarify the broader circumstances, especially the relationship of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic to the United States of America and the cultural policy of both states. Therefore, the time frame was extended, both in the historical introduction and the first exhibition of American art in Czechoslovakia in 1947. It was also necessary to put into context the purpose for which large traveling exhibitions and other US cultural projects were organized and what reception they caused in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic. The six largest exhibitions of American art, which took place in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic in the years 1967-1990, were selected as a sample. In the end, other forms of cooperation of the National Gallery, respectively Jiří Kotalík with American institutions were indicated but also other forms of promotion of Czechoslovak art in the United States of America were indicated. Key words: Jiří Kotalík, National Gallery in Prague, Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, USA, Thomas Messer, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, propaganda, cultural policy,...
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