Publication details
Soukromý sběratel Vincenc Kramář a osudy jeho sbírky v komunistickém Československu
| Title in English | Vincenc Kramář as Private Collector and the Fate of His Collection in Communist Czechoslovakia |
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| Year of publication | 2018 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Kontexty : Centrum pro studium demokracie a kultury |
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| Keywords | Vincenc Kramář; art collecting, National gallery in Prague; communist Czechoslovakia; disspossessing |
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| Description | Vincent Kramar is now known to the wider public primarily as a nestor of Czech art history of the 20th century. Art historian, theoretician, art critic, director-emeritus of the Gallery of the Society of Patriotic Friends of Art, the predecessor of today's National Gallery in Prague, even a professionally trained painter, but also, in terms of further development in our home environment, an exceptionally influential private collector. Kramář's starting-point as a collector and professional art historian, was quite exceptional in Czech cultural space these days. The study focuses on the fate of his extraordinarily valuable and influential collection of early French Cubism in the communist Czechoslovakia of the turn of 1950s and 1960s. |