The publication not only sheds light on the meaning of their experiences with Munich for such classics of 19th-century Czech art as Josef Mánes, Václav Levý, or Karel Purkyně, but also draws attention to the fundamental significance of artists who were invited to the Czech lands from Munich or as a result of contacts with Munich: the painter Christian Ruben, the sculptor Ludwig Schwanthaler, and the architects Johann G. Guttensohn and Bernhard Grueber. The links between the two “artistic cities” of Munich and Prague developed on several levels. The first consisted of journeys made by artists and works of art from the Czech lands to Munich and from Munich to Prague in the period 1814–1900. Here the book provides two extensive registers, an invaluable help of fundamental importance for specialists and laypeople. A second level on which the two cities influenced each other is documented by educational institutions and institutions holding exhibitions. In this connection the book presents hitherto unpublished material on the reform of the Prague Academy of Fine Arts in the fields of sculpture and architecture. The third level of mutual contacts was determined by the peripetia of the development of individual types of art, ranging from the traditional academic subjects (such as landscape painting, historical painting, sculpture, or architecture), through graphic reproduction techniques, to photography. With regard to the latter Munich acquired the position of an important centre from which the use of the new medium spread to the Czech milieu, making sculptural works more widely known, but also in the role of witness to the supernatural phenomena of occultist séances.