0581574 - ÚDU 2025 RIV PL eng M - Monography Chapter
Winter, Tomáš
African Artefacts and Czech Folk Culture in Prague around 1890.
Des collections aux musées. Collectionneurs et passeurs culturels au temps de Feliks Jasieński (1861-1929). Warsaw: Polish Institute of World Art Studies, 2022 - (Kluczewska-Wójcik, A.; Bobrowska, E.), s. 143-150. World Art Studies, 22. ISBN 978-83-66758-16-2
Institutional support: RVO:68378033
Keywords : folk art * african art * Emil Holub
OECD category: Arts, Art history

This paper examines the approach of collectors to both African Art and Czech and Moravian Folk Art in Prague around 1890. Prague was the center of efforts for emancipation by the Czech people within the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. Various instruments were used to strengthen Czech national identity in the 19th century, including the organisation of great exhibitions. Two of these are the subject of the study. Emil Holub’s South African exhibition opened in Vienna in 1891, and a year later moved to Prague. The Czech-Slavonic Ethnographic Exhibition took place in 1895. Both these exhibitions used very similar ways of presenting objects, which makes it possible to compare them.
Permanent Link: https://hdl.handle.net/11104/0349673