Prof. PhDr. Pavel Vlček

Researcher at the Department of Art-Historical Topography.

Pavel Vlček studied art history and general history at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague (1968–1974, PhDr. 1974). Between 1975 and 1978, he worked as a curator at the City of Prague Museum where he prepared exhibitions such as Shooting Targets and Prague in Images from the First Half of the 19th Century. Between 1978 and 1979, he worked at the Regional Centre for Heritage Conservation in Ústí nad Labem and between 1979 and 1981 he was a curator in the Teplice Regional Museum where, along with Jaroslava Glogarová, he prepared the exhibition Art-Nouveau Ceramics. In 1982, he began to work at the Department of Documentation, Prague Centre for Heritage and Nature Conservation. He also worked for the State Restoration Studios (1987) and the State Institute for Renovation of Heritage Sites and Buildings (from 1988 onward) where he was a draftsman and later chief draftsman at the historic-building survey section headed by Dr. Jan Muk. In 1992, he became a researcher at the IAH CAS, specializing in Prague topography. Also in 1992, he began teaching at the Faculty of Architecture, CTU in Prague (Associate Professor 2002, Full Professor 2010). Vlček was the principal investigator for the grant project Umělecké památky Prahy (three GA ČR grants in total) and is currently the principal investigator for Encyklopedie architektů, stavitelů, zedníků a kameníků v Čechách.

Research outputs (selection):

Pavel Vlček, Bohemian Protestant Church Architecture, in: Kateřina Horníčková – Michal Šroněk (eds.), From Hus to Luther, Turnhout 2016, pp. 143–164.

Pavel Vlček, St. Peter und Paul-Kirche in Kralovice und Bonifaz Wolmut? Studia Rudolphina 11, 2011, pp. 25–38.

Pavel Vlček, Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer und Johann Lucas von Hildebradt. Zur Problematik des Guarinismus in Mitteleuropa, Umění LII, 2004, pp. 310ff

Pavel Vlček ed., Encyklopedie architektů, stavitelů, zedníků a kameníků v Čechách, Praha 2004.

Pavel Vlček – Petr Sommer – Dušan Foltýn a kol., Encyklopedie českých klášterů, Praha 1997, 2002.

Pavel Vlček, Ilustrovaná encyklopedie českých zámků, Praha 1999, 2001.

Pavel Vlček, Praha 1610–1700, Praha 1998.

Pavel Vlček (ed.), Umělecké památky Prahy. Staré Město a Josefov, Praha 1996; Malá Strana, Praha 1999; Hradčany a Pražský hrad, Praha 2000, Velká Praha. A–L, Praha 2012.

Pavel Vlček, Stavitel Kryštof Dientzenhofer, in: Historická architektura. Věda – výzkum – praxe, Praha 1995, pp. 201–212.

Pavel Vlček – Pavel Zahradník, František Maxmilián Kaňka, Umění / Art XL, 1992, pp. 180–227.

Pavel Vlček, Dientzenhoferův skicář a česká architektura 1640–1670, Umění / Art XXXVII, 1989, pp. 473–497.

Pavel Vlček, Francesco Caratti; Umění / Art XXXII, 1984, pp. 1–22.

Current projects:

Umělecké památky Moravy a Slezska 4 – co-author

Topografie okresu Plzeň-sever (Kralovice) – co-investigator

Metamorphoses of Village Architecture with an Emphasis on the 19th and 20th Centuries (grant NAKI) – co-investigator

Italská barokní architektura v Praze – principal investigator

Encyklopedie architektů, stavitelů, zedníků a kameníků v Čechách (in collaboration with Pavel Zahradník) - principal investigator, new edition

Praha ve starých fotografiích ze sbírek Ústavu dějin umění (in collaboration with dr. Trnková) – co-investigator