PT Journal
AU Wittlich, F
TI From Exhibitions to Collections : Exhibitions of the Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague in the Years 1905-1939 and the Photographic Collection FormationVon den Ausstellungen zur Sammlung : Die Ausstellungen des KunstgewerbeMuseums in Prag in den Jahren 1905- 1939 und die Entstehung seiner Fotosammlung
SO Staleta Praha
PY 2022
BP 48
EP 75
VL 38
IS 1
DI 10.56112/sp.2022.1.03
WP https://staletapraha.cz/en/artkey/pha-202201-0003.php
DE Prague - Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague - Rudolfinum - photograph - miniature - exhibition - museum collection - One hundred years of Czech photography - 1939 - Frantisek Xaver Jirik - Karel Vladimir Herain - Zdenek Wirth - Frantisek Drtikol
SN 02316056
AB This article deals with the most significant photographic exhibitions organized in the Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague from the turn of the century to 1939, describing the process of the gradual inclusion of photography first in the exhibition and then in the museum's collection program. In chronological order, attention is mainly paid to the Exhibition of Czech Portrait Miniatures and Small Effigies held in 1913, the Exhibition of Photographs in 1914 and especially the exhibition One Hundred Years of Czech Photography in 1939. In this context the formation of the museum's photographic collection is discussed together with the circumstances of the acquisition of photographic work by Frantisek Drtikol. Valuable, hitherto unused, archival evidence of the Museum of Decorative Arts provides a remarkable insight not only into one of the chapters in the history of Czech photography, but also into museum's everyday life, exhibition and publication practice and into the research and cultural-social context of the period.
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