COLLECTIONS AND PAINTERS' PERSONAL PAPERS

Engraving by N. Edelinck after I. B. Santerre - Nicolas Malebranche

Anonymous - picture of St. Elizabeth (pencil, watercolour)

Coloured woodcut by J. Filipi - Forest in Winter

 

Collection of medals - mostly of Czech (or Czechoslovak) mintage on the theme of science and scientists (incl. all medals brought out by the CSAS and the Slovak Academy of Sciences), 525 items, list

Artistic collections - collection based on RBLS, CASA and other institutes' activities, mainly graphic art (portraits of scientists, over 2,500 items) but also death masks and other items, lists for individual sections

Photographic collections - 1) photos of the activities of the older scholarly institutes (almost 1,000), 2) portraits of eminent figures, mainly CSAS members and photos of important documents (around 2,700), 3) reports of official CSAS events (around 3,500), 4) the photographic archives of B. Vavroušek - literary history, visual arts, artistic heritage, ethnography (about 13,500 serial numbers), 5) the basis for a video collection under construction (around 20) - record lists for individual sections

Collection of CSAS staff travel reports - 558 boxes, 1954 - 1985, arranged alphabetically

Collection of CSAS invitations and other printed ephemera  - 10 boxes, 1954 - 1966, inventory list

Collection of printed materials and cuttings on CSAS activities - 88 boxes, 1952 - 1986, inventory list

Collection of CSAS founding documents - organizational rules and regulations, 143 boxes, 5 containers, 1952 - 1992, list

Personal writings of CSAS members - biographical details, activities, bibliographies, 13 bm, 1952 - 1992, take-over list, arranged alphabetically

CSAS prizes and plaques - nominations and grounds for granting them, 40 boxes, 1970 - 1992, take-over list

Václav Brožík's personal papers (*1851, +1901), painter, 1 box, 1894 - 1901, inventory list

Franz Nadorp's personal papers (*1794, +1876), painter and lithographer, 2 boxes, 1816 - 1872, inventory.

 

Etching by Richard Teschner - Trefoil

Etching by Fritz Hegenbart - Ennui (1904)