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Výzkumná paradigmata ve společenských vědách: Sběratelská činnost Arnolda Skutezkého pod tíhou předsudků
| Title in English | Research paradigms in the social sciences: the collecting activities of Arnold Skutezky under the burden of prejudice |
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| Year of publication | 2022 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | Arnold Skutezky (1850?1936), a well-known industrialist in the Moravian region and a great art lover and collector of Jewish origin can indeed be placed among the leading and essential personalities of European art collecting. Born in the second half of the 19th century, when the rights and living conditions of the Jewish population in Brno were changing rapidly, his family also started a business in the wool industry. The growing trade and the rise in his social status created an opportunity for Skutezky to pursue his greatest passion: art collecting. The golden times of prosperity of the 19th century, however, were replaced by a new century, when Skutezky, as a German-speaking Jew living in Brno, finds himself not only in a financial and family crisis after the division of Austria-Hungary and the establishment of the First Republic, but is already confronted with anti-Jewish and anti-German sentiments. The paper aims to introduce the reader the person and life of the collector himself on the basis of the existing information from the archive research and to present some new information about his collecting activities on the basis of the reconstruction of individual collection units. |
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