FPF:UHVM0043 Collecting history II - Course Information

UHVM0043 Collecting history II

Extent and Intensity

2/0/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).

Teacher(s)

PhDr. Ing. Jaromír Olšovský, Ph.D. (lecturer)

Guaranteed by

prof. PhDr. Jiří Knapík, Ph.D.
Institute of Historical Sciences – Faculty of Philosophy and Science in Opava

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.

fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with

• History - Museology (programme FPF, N7105 HiVe)
• Protection of the Cultural Heritage (programme FPF, N7105 HiVe)

Course objectives

Overview of collecting in Central Europe in the 19th and 20 century, with emphasis on developments in the Czech lands, the Society of Patriotic Friends of the Arts in Prague and its collecting activities, collecting in bourgeois environment, the establishment of public institutions to create art collections, a significant figure collecting (Josef K. E. Hoser, August Řehoř, baron Vojtěch Lanna, Heinrich Gomperz, Arnold Skutetzky), founding artistic associations (Kunstverein), and the Association of Friends of Fine Arts. Collecting Modern Art (Vincenc Krámář), the art market.

Syllabus

• 1. Institutional collecting, collectors and patrons 19th century , Prague gallery, Gallery Francis Museum in Brno, Francis Art Society Museum, Heinrich Gomperz and its collection, Skutetzky Arnold and his collecting activities.
  2. Burgher collection in Prague from 1800 to 1870.
  3. Moravian Art Association (Kunstverein Mährische) and its activities in Brno, Otto Kuhn and his collecting activities, Brno and collectors and patrons of modern art.
  4. Prague private collectors around 1900 and their cultural activities, Prague circle of friends of older art of painting , Collectors' Society and Friends of the Arts , Association of Friends of the Modern Gallery, Henry and his Waldes sponsorship activities.
  5. Prague art market and the twilight of private collecting in the 30th - 40 20th century.
  6. Art collections of the National Gallery in Prague, the Moravian Gallery in Brno.
  7. Art collections of the Museum of Art in Olomouc, Silesian Museum in Opava.
  8. The Art Collections Museum of Fine Arts (Kunsthistorisches Museum) in Vienna, the British Museum in London, the Louvre Museum, Venetian Gallerie dell'Accademia, Milan, Pinacoteca di Brera ad.).

Literature

recommended literature
• Nová encyklopedie českého výtvarného umění I-II. (ed. A. Horová). a. info
• Lubomír Slavíček (ed.),. Artis Pictoriae Amatores. Evropa v zrcadle pražského barokního sběratelství. NG v Praze, 1993. info
• Dana Stehlíková. Encyklopedie českého zlatnictví, stříbrnictví a klenotnictví. Praha 2003 (jednotlivá hesla o vybraných sbírkách). info
• Lubomír Slavíček. Chvála sběratelství: holandské obrazy 17. a počátku 18. století v českých sbírkách. Cheb 1993. info
• Pierre Cabanne. Kniha o velkých sběratelích. Praha 1971. info
• Pavel Preiss. Panoráma manýrismu. Kapitoly o umění a kultuře 16. století. Praha 1974. info
• Karel Holešovský. Portrétní miniatura: historie, sběratelství a znalectví. Praha 1976. info
• Augusta, J. M. Rukověť sběratelova. Praha 1927 (reprint Praha 1993). info
• Lubomír Slavíček a kolektiv. Sběratelství. Praha 1983. info
• Lubomír Slavíček. Sobě, umění, přátelům. Kapitoly z dějin sběratelství v Čechách a na Moravě 1650-1939. Brno 2008. info
• Eliška Fučíková - Beket Bukovinská - Ivan Muchka. Umění na dvoře Rudolfa II. Praha 1988. info
• Gustav, Wilhelm. The Journey of the Liechtenstein Gallery from Vienna to Vaduz. Mnichov, 2005. info
• Patrik, Šimon. Jindřich Waldes - sběratel umění. Praha, 2001. info

Language of instruction

Czech

Further comments (probably available only in Czech)

The course can also be completed outside the examination period.

Teacher's information

Successful completion of credit

• Enrolment Statistics (Summer 2016, recent)
  
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