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We cordially invite you to the opening of the exhibition "Stanislav Sucharda 1866–1916: Creative Process" which will take place on Thursday 14 November 2019 at 7 pm at the Trade Fair Palace ("Veletržní Palace"). The author of the exhibition is Martin Krummholz (IAH CAS). This first comprehensive presentation of Sucharda’s mostly unknown work is the outcome of the joint project Footprints of Work: The Legacy of Great Sculptors of the First Half of the 20th Century. The Conservation and Care of Plaster Sculptures (NAKI, DG16P02B052) carried out by the Faculty of Restoration of Pardubice University and the Institute of Art History of the Czech Academy of Sciences, which researched Sucharda’s unique estate.

Attached file: Sucharda Vystava Plakat.pdf

On Friday 22 November 2019 an international workshop "Bader Scholars in Art History" will take place at the Academic Conference Centre (Husova 4a, Prague 1). For the program, please see the attachment.

Attached file: bader2019.pdf

We cordially invite you to a reprise of two exhibitions "Josef Sudek: In the Atelier" and "Sudek: Images and Reflections" which will be open on Thursday 7 November 2019 at 6 pm at the Gallery "Pod radnicí" in Ústí nad Orlicí. Both the exhibitions remain open until 30 November 2019.

Attached file: 2019 GPR JS.JPG

A co-lecture of Milada Jonášová (IAH CAS) and Manfred Hermann Schmid (Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen), scheduled in the series Dialogo della musica to 19 November 2019 has to be canceled because of the illness of one of the presenters. The lecture will probably take place in January 2020. We will inform you of the date. We do apologise for any inconvenience.

We coordialy invite you for presentation of the book "Jan Šépka: Inspiration" on Tuesday 29 October 2019 at 6 pm in v Café Jedna, National Gallery in Prague / Veletržní palác (Dukelských hrdinů 47, Prague 7). The book will be introduced by Jindřich Vybíral, a rector of the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague and Vendula Hnídková, the editor and author of text, from the IAH CAS.

Attached file: jš-pozvánka.pdf

Photography Research Centre at the IAH CAS is organising a conference "Photo: Science," which will take place on 17–19 September 2020 in Prague. We welcome proposals until 28 February 2020, e-mail address cvf.avcr@gmail.com.

Attached file: konference-CPV_0910-EN.pdf

On 22 October 2019 a workshop "Negatives and Their Storage in (Non)Collections" will take place at the Academic Conference Centre, Husova 4a, Prague 1. The workshop starts at 9.30 am. You are cordially invited.

We coordially invite you to the international conference "Zelenka Conference 2019", which will take place 19 October 2019 at the Library of the Department of Musicology, Puškin Square 9, Prague 6. For more details as well as for the programme, please, see the attachment.

Attached file: Zelenka2019_program.pdf

We are calling for proposals for the international workshop "Worker Photography in Museums. History and Politics of a Cultural Heritage in East-Central Europe", which is going to take place on 27 February 2020 in Prague. Deadline for submissions is 15 November 2019. For more information, please, see the attachment.

Attached file: CFP_Worker_Photography_Museums.pdf

An international conference "Visual Anti-Semitism in Central Europe" will take places on 17 October 2019 at the Academic Conference Centre, Husova 4a, Prague 1. The conference is one of the main outcomes of the NAKI II - Image of Enemy: Visual-Antisemitism in the Czech Lands from Middle Ages till today.

Attached file: konference_Visual_Anti-semitism_17_10_2019.pdf

On Wednesday 9 October 2019 Professor Harald Wolter-von dem Knesebeck (KHI Universität Bonn) will give a lecture entitled "Scripture and Image in the Gospels of Henry the Lion and Matilda of England". The lecture from the CHA series will take place at 4.30 pm at the Institute of Art History, Husova 4, room no. 117. For more details, please, see the attachment.

Attached file: 20191009_CHA_Knesebeck.pdf

Another exhibition, "Metamorphoses of Rural Architecture" will be open on 8 October 2019 at 6 pm at the Koridor Gallery of the Faculty of Education UJEP in Ústí nad Labem. For more information, please, see the attachment.

Attached file: UDU vesnice - Pozvanka - 2019 UDU-web.pdf

We coordially invite you to the opening of an exhibition "Confiscated Fates. Rescuing the Monuments and Other Objects of German Inhabitants Confiscated by the CSR and Their northern Bohemian Owners" which takes place 1 October 2019 at the City Gallery MY in Jablonec nad Nisou. The exhibition is open until 1 December 2019.

Attached file: Konfiskované_osudy.pdf

Fotograf Festival and the Institute of Art History of the Czech Academy of Sciences cordially invite you to the opening of the exhibition "Detail as a Witness of the Time. The Past in Documentary Photography between the 1970s and the 1990s", which takes place on Wednesday 2nd October 2019 at 6 p.m. in the Window Gallery IAH CAS (Husova 4, Prague 1).

Attached file: PozvankaWeb_Detail_jako_svedek_doby_20190923.png

On 27 September 2019 a workshop "LUXEMBOURG – VALOIS – VISCONTI AROUND 1400" will take place in the Villa Lanna, V Sadech 1, Prague 6. The workshop starts at 9.30 am. For more details as well as for the programme, please, see the attachment.

Attached file: program_LUXEMBOURG_VALOIS _VISCONTI.pdf

On 21–22 September 2019 an international musicological conference on the theme “Il Demofoonte as a subject for dramma per musica: Johann Adolf Hasse and other composers of the 18th century” will be held in the Centre of Baroque Culture in Český Krumlov. The conference is being organised by the Institute of Art History, Czech Academy of Sciences, in cooperation with the Centre of Baroque Culture in Český Krumlov, the Hof-Musici ensemble, and the Mozart Society in the Czech Republic, under the patronage of the Italian Cultural Institute in Prague, and with the financial support of the Commission for the Regional Cooperation of the Regions and Institutes of the Czech Academy of Sciences and of the Johann Adolf Hasse-Stiftung in Hamburg.

Attached file: Demofoonte-program-English.docx

After the summer break, the lecture series Collegium Historiae Artium continues with a presentation by Klara Kemp-Welch (The Courtauld Institute of Art) on „Networking the Bloc: Reassembling the Social in East European Experimental Art 1965-1981". The lecture takes place Wednesday 11 September 2019 at 4.30 pm at the lecture theatre of the IAH CAS, Husova 4, Prague 1, room nr. 117. For more details, please, see the attachment.

Attached file: 20190911_CHA_Kemp_Welch.pdf

We would like to invite you to the exhibition "Imago/Imagines. Medieval Society in Times of Wenceslas IV: Visual Evidence", which will be open from the 4 September till the 26 October 2019 at the Gallery of Sciences and Arts (Czech Academy of Sciences, Národní 3, Prague 1). The exhibition was prepared by the Department of Medieval Art, IAH CAS for the 600 anniversary of Wenceslas IV's death in 1419. It will be open from Monday till Friday from 9 am until 6 pm.

Attached file: AV_Imago_Imagines_plakat_4.pdf

On Monday 19 August 2019 we celebrated the World Photography Day. On this day in 1839, the daguerreotype was officially presented to the members of the French Academy of Sciences. During the 180 years, photography has developed dramatically. Various techniques evolved, some of which did not reach any success, some are being used till today. Archives, museums as well as other institutions keep sometimes quite large collections of photographic material. Recently, attention has been paid to its research and preservation. The Department of Documentation of the IAH keeps a large photographic collection of about photographs.

Attached file: TZ_Den fotografie_19_08_16_FINAL.doc

On 10 October 2019 a workshop "Krásný Dvůr: Early Landscape Gardens in the Central Europe and Their Creators" will take place in the Academic Conference Centre, Husova 4a, Prague 1. The workshop starts at 9 am. For more details as well as for the programme, please, see the attachment.

Attached file: Krásný Dvůr_workshop_19_10_10.pdf