Bauhaus ↔ Czechoslovakia - lecture by Markéta Svobodová at the Tugendhat villa
The lecture by Markéta Svobodová (Institute of Art History, Czech Academy of Sciences) will be dedicated to the contacts between the Czechoslovak avant-garde and the German school of modern design – Bauhaus.
Attention will be particularly focused on the relationships between educators (Walter Gropius, Hannes Meyer, László Moholy-Nagy, Josef Albers, etc.) and significant figures of the Czechoslovak avant-garde or art schools and mutual contacts between students. The lecture will also introduce foreign graduates of the Bauhaus who found their refuge in democratic interwar Czechoslovakia.
Mgr. Markéta Svobodová, Ph.D. (1971) is a graduate of the Faculty of Philosophy at Palacký University in Olomouc. After her studies, she worked as a curator at the Museum of Art in Olomouc. Since 1998, she has been employed as a research worker at the Institute of Art History of the Czech Academy of Sciences, specializing primarily in the history of architecture. She is the author of the books Bauhaus and Czechoslovakia 1919–1938. Students / Concepts / Contacts (Prague 2016), Crematorium in the Process of Secularization of the Czech Lands in the 20th Century (Prague 1913); she has contributed to the books Zdeněk Rossmann / Horizons of Modernism (Brno, 2015), Naprej! Czech Sports Architecture 1567–2012 (Prague 2012), Artistic Monuments of Prague. Greater Prague (Prague 2012, 2017), Beyond Everydayness. Theatre Architecture in Central Europe (Prague 2010), etc.
Attention will be particularly focused on the relationships between educators (Walter Gropius, Hannes Meyer, László Moholy-Nagy, Josef Albers, etc.) and significant figures of the Czechoslovak avant-garde or art schools and mutual contacts between students. The lecture will also introduce foreign graduates of the Bauhaus who found their refuge in democratic interwar Czechoslovakia.
Mgr. Markéta Svobodová, Ph.D. (1971) is a graduate of the Faculty of Philosophy at Palacký University in Olomouc. After her studies, she worked as a curator at the Museum of Art in Olomouc. Since 1998, she has been employed as a research worker at the Institute of Art History of the Czech Academy of Sciences, specializing primarily in the history of architecture. She is the author of the books Bauhaus and Czechoslovakia 1919–1938. Students / Concepts / Contacts (Prague 2016), Crematorium in the Process of Secularization of the Czech Lands in the 20th Century (Prague 1913); she has contributed to the books Zdeněk Rossmann / Horizons of Modernism (Brno, 2015), Naprej! Czech Sports Architecture 1567–2012 (Prague 2012), Artistic Monuments of Prague. Greater Prague (Prague 2012, 2017), Beyond Everydayness. Theatre Architecture in Central Europe (Prague 2010), etc.
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