Prague - The resumes of personalities that Culture Minister Václav Riedlbauch will recommend to his successor as candidates for the position of Director of the National Gallery (NG) in Prague (listed alphabetically):
Jiří Fajt (born 1960 in Prague) - art historian, former head of the Collection of Old Art at NG. He studied at the Czech Agricultural University in Prague (1983) and art history at the Faculty of Arts at Charles University in Prague (1994). In the second half of the 1980s, he worked as a window cleaner, later worked at the Lapidarium of the National Museum in Prague (1988 to 1993), and from 1994 to 2000, he was employed at the National Gallery, leading the Collection of Old Art from 1995. Since 2000, he has mainly worked in Germany, giving lectures at universities in Berlin and Prague. Fajt specializes as an art historian in medieval art and is the author of numerous publications and articles in domestic and foreign magazines, has edited several anthologies or exhibition catalogs. As a curator, he has overseen several exhibitions, among the most notable were the exhibitions "Magister Theodoricus, Court Painter of Emperor Charles IV" or "Charles IV, Emperor by the Grace of God." He is among the critics of the current head of NG Milan Knížák.
Marek Pokorný (born 1963 in Humenné - Slovakia) - current director of the Moravian Gallery in Brno. He studied at the Faculty of Arts at Charles University. He then worked as a journalist, art critic, and curator of contemporary art. He held leading and editorial positions in the cultural sections of the newspapers Prostor, Lidová demokracie, Mladá fronta Dnes, and the magazine Týden. He founded and edited Detail, the first magazine dedicated to the post-November art scene. In the 1990s, he organized several exhibitions in various Czech galleries (e.g., exhibitions of Jan Merta, Krištof Kintera). He also organized exhibitions of contemporary art in the foyer of the Chamber of Deputies. He spent three years in Rome. In 2003 and 2004, he was the chief curator of the House of Lords from Kunštát in Brno. As the director of the Moravian Gallery, he is also involved in journalistic and curatorial activities. Under his leadership, the Moravian Gallery in Brno, for example, purchased the Jurkovič Villa in Brno-Žabovřesky and the birthplace of Josef Hoffmann in Brtnice near Jihlava, participates in organizing successful museum nights in Brno, and plans a grand reconstruction of the Governor's Palace.
Vladimír Rösel (born 1966) - economist and financier. He is the founder, partner, and managing director of Lombard Advisory Partners s.r.o., which deals with investments, private capital management, business restructuring, and real estate trading. According to the commercial register, he is also the head of the consulting company in the field of investments and finance called Fieldstone Private Capital Group - Organizational Unit, founded by the same-named London firm. According to available information, Rösel began his career as a financier in 1991 at Bankers Trust in London. He reportedly also worked as a lecturer at the National Gallery in Prague. In 2006, the weekly Euro labeled him as an expert in the aviation industry, and his Lombard Advisory Partners participated in successfully completing the restructuring of a traditional Czech aircraft engine manufacturer, Walter.
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