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On Wednesday 11 March 2020 Nicholas Sawicki (Lehigh University, Pennsylvania) will talk on: "Douglas Cooper in Prague and Moscow: Behind the Iron Curtain for ‘The Cubist Epoch’". The lecture within the series Collegium historiae artium will take place at 4.30 pm in the lecture theatre of the IAH CAS, room no. 117. You are cordially invited.

Attached file: 20200311_CHA_Sawicki.pdf

The new issue no. 19 of the bulletin Studia Rudolphina has been just published by the Center for Visual Arts and Culture in the Age of Rudolf II. For the content, please, see the attachment.

Attached file: SR19_contents.pdf

We would like to inform you about the exhibition "Stanislav Kolíbal - London 1969" which will be open on Friday 21 February at 6.30 pm at the Embassy of the Czech Republic in London. The exhibition was prepared by Katarína Mašterová and Pavel Vančát in cooperation with the Institute of Art History of the Czech Academy of Sciences.

We would like to inform you about another lecture from the Collegium Historiae Artium series. On Wednesday 26 February 2020 Christian Joschke (University Paris Nanterre) will talk on „How German Communists Invented French Radical Photography: Regards and Arbeiter Illustrierte Zeitung (1928–1936)". The lecture starts at 4.30 pm in the lecture theater of the IAH CAS, Husova 4, Prague 1, room nr. 117. This will be the opening lecture to the international workshop "Worker Photography in Museums. History and Politics of a Cultural Heritage in East-Central Europe". For more details, please, see the attachment.

Attached file: 202000226_CHA_Joschke.pdf

We cordially invite you to the international workshop "Worker Photography in Museums. History and Politics of a Cultural Heritage in East-Central Europe", which will be open on Wednesday 26 February 2020 by the lecture delivered by Christian Joschke (University Paris Nanterre) within the series Collegium Historiae Artium at the IAH CAS, Husova 4, Prague 1. On the second day, 27 February 2020, the workshop will take place at the CEFRES, Na Florenci 3, Prague 1. For the programme, please, see the attachment.

Attached file: Workers_programme_105x297_0217_web.pdf

The IAH CAS in cooperation with the Bibliothece Hertziana, Max-Planck-Institute for Art History in Rome and Vivarium - Centre for Research of the Medieval Society and Culture, University of Ostrava organise an international conference "Royal Nunneries at the Centre of Medieval Europe: Art, Architecture, Aesthetics 11th-14th centuries". The conference will take place on 2-4 July 2020 in the Prague’s Na Františku double convent founded by the Přemyslid princess St. Agnes with her brother, king Wenceslas I. We welcome papers from art and architectural historians, as well as from scholars in adjacent fields, focusing on a case study, a region, or royal/courtly entourage, and posing theoretical and methodological questions which could offer a bridge for comparative discussions.

Attached file: CFP Royal Nunneries_fin.pdf

The Institute of Art History, CAS, is pleased to announce a selection procedure for a new research position specialising in Czech music of the second half of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Applications shall be sent by 17 February 2020. For more information, please, see the attachment.

Attached file: Selection_procedure_research_position_Department_of_Musicology.pdf

We wish you a very Merry Christmas and a happy new year 2020!

On Tuesday 17 December another lecture from the series Dialogo della musica will take place. This time Anja Bunzel (IAH CAS) and Melanie Unseld (Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien) will talk on "Namen sind Schall und Rauch? Salonkultur im 19. Jahrhundert". The lecture starts at 4.30 pm at the lecture theathre of the IAH CAS, Husova 4, room no. 117. The lecture will be in German.

Attached file: Dialogo della musica_Bunzel_Unseld.pdf

The Institute of Art History CAS announces a new call for applicants for the Bader Scholarship. The deadline for all applications is on 31 January 2020. For more information in English, please get in touch with Tereza Johanidesová, email: johanidesova.at.udu.cas.cz

Attached file: Bader_Stipendium_soutez_na 2020.doc

We cordially invite you to the exhibition "Architect Pietro Nobile (1776–1854): Neoclassicism between Technique and Beauty", which is open at the Gallery of West Bohemia in Plzeň till 9 February 2020. The author of the exhibition is Taťána Petrasová (IAH CAS). The guided tours are scheduled for both 9 and 30 January 2020 from 5 pm.

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On Wednesday 20 November 2019 Dorothea McEwan (The Warburg Institute, University of London) will talk on„Aby Warburg’s and Fritz Saxl’s Assessment of the ‘Wiener Schule.’" The lecture from the Collegium historiae artium series will start at 4.30 at the IAH CAS, For more details, please, see the attachment.

Attached file: 20191120_McEwan.pdf

We cordially invite to the opening of the exhibition „Bauhaus • Women Czechoslovakia“ which will take place on Tuesday 19 November 2019 at 7 pm at Villa Tugendhat in Brno. Markéta Svobodová (IAH CAS) is the author of the exhibition, which is curated by Barbora Benčíková & Lucie Valdhansová, and Pavlína Doležalová (Pixle) & Jozef Ondrík are responsible for the architectural and graphic design.

Attached file: Bauhaus-ženy-Československo_pozvánka.pdf

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.