Publication details
Slike sa Balkanskog ratišta. Ratni fotoalbum češkog oficira Hineka Doležala
| Title in English | Pictures from the Balkan battlefield. Wartime photo album of Czech officer Hynek Doležal |
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| Year of publication | 2022 |
| Type | Exposition |
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| Description | The exhibition is an original photographic testimony of the Balkan battlefield of the Great War prepared from the photographic diary of a Czech officer of the Austro-Hungarian army. Photos and postcards that Hynek Doležal, lieutenant and later first lieutenant of the 20th Mountain Brigade XIX. Corps of the Austro-Hungarian Army he photographed and, in the case of postcards, took during the combat journey of his troops through Herzegovina, Bosnia, Serbia, Albania and Macedonia, they are an original and unique photographic testimony of that time. The exhibition with the accompanying text is mainly based on photographs from the combat journey of Hynk Doležal's unit through Serbia, and especially through the part of Serbia called Šumadija, where the city of Čačak is also located. In addition, the exhibition is complemented by postcards of villages and towns in Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, which the author visited during the war, and Doležal's ethnographic photographs documenting the life of Serbian, Montenegrin, Albanian and Macedonian villagers. The catalog of the exhibition is a book of the same name, which the author prepared already in 2019. Unfortunately, the exhibition was delayed due to the covid epidemic. |