Bader Scholarship

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 2023/2024 the scholarship was granted to the following projects:

• Lucie Česká (FF UP Olomouc and ÚDU AV ČR Prague): Business strategies and presentation of art. Journey of Mikoláš Lehmann and one Stunning Painting through Europe 
  The project will focus on the presentation of art in the private sector both in the Czech Lands and in major European art centers using the example of business strategies used by the Prague gallerist Mikoláš Lehmann in the last third of the 19th century as part of his busíness activities.
• Tereza Horáková (FF MU Brno): Remarkable Sculptures. Materiality of Early Modern Sacral Sculptures between Italy, Spain and Central Europe 
  The project focuses on analysing the role of materiality in the perception of sacral sculptures of the Early Modern period. It aims to interpret the specificity or uniqueness of materiality of wooden polychrorne sculptures in Central Europe based on comparisons of these sculptures with an emphasis on similar functions in other parts of Europe.
• Pavol Múdry (FF MU Brno): Exhibition activities between Czechoslovakia and the GDR in 1945-1964
  The aim of the project is to map the cross-border movement of art objects between Czechoslovakia and the German Democratic Republic in the years 1945-1964, focusing primarily on exhibition activities carried out by the state institutions.

Projects supported in the previous years:

• 2022/2023
  • Tadeáš Kadlec (FF UK and ÚDU AV ČR Prague): Johann Peter Molitor (1702–1757) and the „Rococo“ in Bohemia and Central Europe
  • Zuzana Ragulová (FA VUT Brno): Brno Jewish Architects after 1918
  • Adéla Šenková (FF MU Brno): Graphics of the 18th century at the Viennese Academy: technological aspects and working methods
• 2021/2022
  • Denisa Hradilová (FF UP Olomouc): Coptic textiles from the Silesian Museum in an international context
  • Petra Lexová (FF MU Brno): Czech object sculpture in the years 1960–1980 and the Central European late modernism
  • Jan Zachariáš (FF UK Prague): 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
• 2020/2021
  • Tereza Johanidesová (FF UK Praha), The key ideas, concepts and interpretational strategies of the Czech marxist iconology
  • Michaela Hojdysz (FF MU Brno), 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