In 1972 he graduated from Faculty of Art of Masaryk University in Brno, where he studied art history. The degree CSc. he obtained in the Institute of Art History and Art Theory of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences in 1985. In 2001 he achieved the degree of Docent, and in 2001 he was appointed a full-professor of art history at Masaryk University.
1972–1975 he worked as a specialist at the Centre for the Preservation of Historical Monuments and the Protection of Environment in South Moravian Region, and in 1975–1994 in the National Gallery Prague in different positions: 1975–1985 a specialist in the Collection of Ancient Art; 1985–1991 head of the Collection of Ancient European Art; 1986–1991 Deputy Director of the National Gallery for the institution’s expert and research activities; 1991–1993 Director of the National Gallery; 1993–1994 research worker of the National Gallery. Since 1994 he has been teaching in the Seminar of Art History, Faculty of Art of Masaryk University in Brno, 2001–2011 he was head of the Seminar.
He is a member of Scientific and Artistic Boards (e. g. Faculty of Art of the Masaryk University, Faculty of Fine Arts of the Technical University Brno, School of Applied Arts Prague, National Gallery Prague), a member of acquisition committees of different galleries, a member of editor’s boards of reviewed periodicals Umění (Art) and Pražský sborník historický (Prague’s Historical Bulletin) and others. 1995–2002 he was President of the Society of Art Historians in Czech Lands. 2010 he was appointed a member of the Accreditation Committee of the Czech Republic and head of its permanent working group of experts for visual, musical and dramatic arts and scholarly studies of art, music, theatre and film.
His research work in art history is focused on the art of the early modern ages, in particular on the Netherlandish and Central European painting of the 17th and 18th centuries, history of art collecting, the art patronage, and taste in the Czech Lands and in Central Europe from the 17th century up to the present time. His further research interests are connoisseurship and museology as well as historical sources on art history. He is the author of five monographs and more than two hundred contributions in domestic and foreign periodicals and in the bulletins of scientific conferences in the Czech Republic and abroad.
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