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Do not miss the presentation of books published by the Artefactum Publishing House that are on display in the shop windows of the Academia book shop in Vodičkova street in Prague until the end of July 2019.

The Institute of Art History of the CAS invites junior researchers, PhD holders, to apply for a postdoc scholarship funded by the Czech Academy of Sciences. All applications must be submitted until 8 September 2019 to the address: Institute of Art History (secretary), Husova 4, 110 00 Prague 1. For details, please, see the attachment.

Attached file: vyzva_postdoc_2020.pdf

The Institute of Art History, CAS in cooperation with the Josef Sudek Studio coordially invite you to the exhibition "Sudek: Images and Reflections", which will open on Thursday 27 June 2019 at 6 pm at the Josef Sudek Studio, Újezd 30, Prague 1. The chief curator is Martin Pavlis from the Photo Archive of the IAH CAS.

Under the auspices of the Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany H. E. Dr. Christoph Israng and as part of the Strategy AV21 research programme “Memory in the Digital Age”, the Institute of Art History, Czech Academy of Sciences, together with the Mozart Society in the Czech Republic and with the support of the Technical University in Munich, is organising an exhibition and international conference under the title “The Bertramka – A German Perspective (1942)”. The conference will take place on 22 June 2019 in the Bertramka villa, where an exhibition will also be installed, with facsimiles of nearly 100 previously unknown drawings, plans, and sketches of the Bertramka from the years 1925 and 1942–1943 that have been found in the Architecture Museum at the Technical University in Munich. They are the work of Professor Georg Buchner (1890‒1971) and his advanced students from the Academy of Applied Arts in Munich. The exhibition also contains Buchner’s distinctive drawings and sketches of parts of Prague, as well as a number of contemporary photographs. The curators responsible for the exhibition are Milada Jonášová and Prof. Manfred Hermann Schmid (University of Tübingen), who discovered the collection. Because of the limited capacity of the concert hall in the Bertramka villa, you are asked to confirm your interest in attending the conference to the address jonasova@udu.cas.cz by 19 June 2019. Attendance at the opening is by invitation only. The exhibition will be open to the public on 23 June 2019 and other dates, which will be published on the Mozart Society website at http://www.bertramka.eu.

Attached file: bertramka_program_DEFINITIVNI.pdf

Since 2019 the Institute of Art History CAS has been publishing the Musicology Journal. The first issue in the graphic desing of Jan Šerých was just published. In the editorial, a new concept of the journal as well as of the recently established Department of Musicology at the IAH CAS are presented.

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Wednesday 12 June 2019 another lecture of the CHA series will take place. This time Zuzanna Sarnecká (University of Warsaw) will talk on "Sensual Clay: The New Approach to Italian Renaissance Terracotta Sculpture". The lecture starts at 4.30 pm at the lecture theatre of the IAH CAS, Husova 4, Prague 1. For more details, please, see the attachment.t

Attached file: 20190612_CHA_Sarnecka.pdf

The Library of Musicology of the IAH CAS opens again after reconstruction and sanitation of the books fund. The library is situated at the Puškin Square 9, Prague 1 and is open Mondays and Wednesdays always from 10 till 5:30 pm, with a lunch break from 12 until 1 pm. For an appointment outside the opening hours, please, consult the librarian.

We coordially invite you to the presentation of the exhibition catalogue "Svoboda + Palcr: Seeing Sculptures, which will take place on Tuesday 4 June 2019 at 5 pm at Milada Horáková Street 851/84, Prague 7. The exhibition is currently to be seen at the Gallery of the Fine Arts in Cheb till 16 June 2019. The catalogue is published by the Artefactum, Publishing House of the IAH CAS. The catalogue will be on sale at the presentation with 30% discount. The printed invitation attached.

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We coordially invite you to a special lecture presented by Daniel Baric (Institute of Slavic Studies, Sorbonne, Paris) with the title "From Bohemia to the Adriatic Sea and Back: The Topography of Central-European Patrimony, between Imperial Paradigm and National Contingencies (1900-1940)." The lecture will take place on Wednesday 22 May 2019 at 4:30 pm at the Institute of Art History, CAS, Husova 4, Prague 1. For more details, please, see the attachment.

Attached file: Baric 22-5 Patrimony between Imperial Paradigm and National Contingencies.pdf

On 30 April 2019 a joint project of the IAH CAS and Leonard A. Lauder Research Center for Modern Art was presented in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York., The cooperation resulted in a digital facsimile, with transcription and translation, of notes by Vincenc Kramář, on Picasso's 1913 exhibition at Heinrich Thannhauser's Moderne Galerie in Munich. The original notes are located in the Department of Documentation of the IAH CAS in Prague.

On Wednesday 15 May 2019 Milan Pelc (Institute of Art History, Zagreb) will talk on: „Reception of Prints and Innovative Iconography in the Late Gothic Miniature: Examples from Two Zagreb Manuscript Missals". 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.

Attached file: 20190515_CHA_Pelc.pdf

We coordially invite you to the exhibition "Svoboda + Palcr: Seeing Scuplptures", which is open from 10 April till 16 June 2019 at the Gallery of Fine Arts in Cheb. The exhibition presents photographies by Jan Svoboda (1934–1990) as well as a collection of rarely displayed sculptures by Zdeněka Palcr. (1927–1996). The exhibition is curated by Katarína Mašterová from the IAH CAS. The exhibition is open until 16 June 2019.

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On Wednesday 10 April 2019 Gábor György Papp (Hungarian Academy of Sciences) will talk on National Architecture and the "Jewish Question" in Hungary 1908–1920: The Case of the Hungarian (Architectural) Society with the So-Called "Hungarian Art Nouveau". 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.

Attached file: 20190410_CHA_Papp.pdf

It is with deep regret that we inform you that art historian and former Director of the Institute of Art History Prof. PhDr. Vojtěch Lahoda, CSc. passed on Monday, 18 March 2019 at the age of 63.

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We are delighted to announce that in 2019 the foundation Bader Philanthropies has supported these three projects:

The new double issue no. 17–18 of the bulletin Studia Rudolphina has been just published by the Center for Visual Arts and Culture in the Age of Rudolf II.

Attached file: SR17_18_contents.pdf

We cordially invite you to the opening night of the final reprise of the traveling exhibition Josef Sudek: The Topography of Ruins. Prague 1945 which will take place on Thursday, 14 March 2019 at 5 pm at the Museum of Architecture in Wrocław, and will be attended by Adéla Kremplová and Martin Pavlis from the Sudek Project team. The guided tour will take place on Friday, 15 March 2019 at 12pm. The exhibition is open until until 5 May, 2019. Museum of Architecture in Wrocław Bernardyńska Street 5, 50156 Wrocław, Poland

We coordially invite you to the international conference "The Influence of the Vienna School of Art History before and after 1918",which will take place 3–5 April 2019 both at the Academic Conference Centre and in the lecture theatre of IAH CAS. Within the conference two keynote lecture will be presented by Prof. Artur Rosenauer and Prof. Ján Bakoš, both at the Austrian Cultural Forum. For more information and for the programme as well, please, see the attachment.

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We invite submissions from those interested in active participation on the 18th Meeting on Sepulchral Monuments which will take place on 6 - 9 November 2019 in Prague. The proposals including a short resume are to be sent by 30 April 2019,

Attached file: CFP_sepulcralia_2019_mail.pdf

On Wednesday 27 March 2019 another lecture from the Collegium Historiae Artium series will take place at 4.30 pm. Anna Boreczky (National Széchényi Library, Budapest) will talk on "The Illustrated Apollonius: Metamorphoses of a Medieval Bestseller". For more details, please, see the attachment.

Attached file: 20190327_CHA_Boreczky.pdf