Dr. Alfred Bader Scholarship for doctoral students researching European art and architecture from the Middle Ages to the 20th century
The Dr. Alfred Bader scholarship is designed for young researches (under 40) of post-graduate programs and theory of art in accredited history and theory of art and architecture programs at universities in the Czech Republic. The scholarship has been provided since 2016 thanks to a grant from the Isabel & Alfred Bader Fund based on the project prepared by the IAH CAS in the Czech Republic in cooperation with the Czech Association of Art Historians.
Progress and final reports of the scholars are published in the Bulletin UHS.
The application deadline is at the beginning of each year (usually January 31). The exact application deadline will be announced on the IAH website. Each year the fund usually provides three scholarships worth 12,500 USD each. The candidates learn the results in the spring and if successful, the research takes place over the course of the following academic year. Prospective applicants should contact Eva Janáčová (janacova@udu.cas.cz) for more information.
In 2021/2022 the scholarship was granted to the following projects::
Denisa Hradilová (FF UP v Olomouci): Coptic textiles from the Silesian Museum in an international context
Petra Lexová (FF MU v Brně): Czech object sculpture in the years 1960–1980 and the Central European late modernism
Jan Zachariáš (FF UK v Praze): Art history as a History of the senses. On the relationships between art history and the theory of perception (especially tactile perception) in the years 1880–1930.
Projects supported in the previous years:
2020/2021
Tereza Johanidesová (FF UK Praha), The key ideas, concepts and interpretational strategies of the Czech marxist iconology
Michaela Hojdysz (FF MU v Brně), Archduke Eugen of Austria: Reconstruction and protection of Bouzov Castle in the context of collecting and heritage conservation in Central Europe at the end of the 19th century
Mariana Placáková (FF UK Praha), Experience and emancipation. Feminist art in the period of state socialism
2019/2020
Patrik Farkaš, Life in the Still-Life. The Hungarian Painter Jakob Bogdani (1658–1724) at the British Royal Court
Jana Gazdagová, Ritual in the Church of the Holy Wisdom in Benevento at the Dawn of the Longobard Golden Age
Tomáš Kolich, The Picturesque Chaos. Graphic Screens in Cinema
2018/2019
Lenka Kerdová, Interwar Architecture by German Speaking Architects in Prague
Adéla Minaříková, Caspar Lehmann and the Beginnings of Cut Glass in Central Europe
Lenka Vrlíková, Between Rome and Alexandria. Reflection of European Art in Ethiopian Painting during the Rule of the Solomon Dynasty (1270–1468)
2017/2018
Jan Diensbier, Secular Late-Medieval Wall Painting in Central Europe
Irena Lehkoživová, Contemporary Architecture and Visual Art as a Source of Mutual Inspiration: Approaches in Theory and Practice
Kristýna Rendlová, Depicting Architecture in Osman Illustrated Manuscripts from the 16th Century
2016/2017
Hana Benešovská, The Art of Ancient Egypt from the Perspective of Art History: The History of Research, State of the Art and New Possibilities
Ondřej Hojda, The Image of Japanese Architecture in Europe, 1945–1970
Barbora Tóth (Holečková), The Influence of Bologna and Naples Artistic Centres on Art in the Czech and Hungarian Lands in the first Half of the 14th Century