DU2319 Chapters from the History of Art Collecting

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2020
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Ing. Marcela Rusinko, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Ing. Marcela Rusinko, Ph.D.
Department of Art History – Faculty of Arts
Supplier department: Department of Art History – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Thu 10:00–11:40 K31
Prerequisites
A basic overview of the development of Czech and world art.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is offered to students of any study field.
Course objectives
The lecture will address the issue of private collections, individual patronage and current provenance research. The course outlines the basic concepts, the historical development and the importance of the issue. Key artistic collections historically emerging on our territory (Karel IV., Rudolf II., aristocratic and bourgeois collections from the 17th and 19th centuries), personalities of Brno collections in the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries are presented. The focus of the course is dedicated to prominent personalities of art collecting of the 20th century. The leading representatives of the domestic scene are presented comparatively in the context of the most famous examples of the world collections of the period under review.

The home environment includes, among others, Jindřich Waldes, Vincent Kramář, Jiří Kolář, Josef Sudek and others. Their theoretical and social starting points, links to the contemporary art scene and different individual fates of individual collections are analyzed. The course also deals with the situation of private and contextually also institutional collecting in the period of postwar totalitarianism. Reminding the personality of Jaroslav Puchmertl, Stanislav Drvota, Jaroslav Borovička, Václav Butta, Rudolf Barák and others). Special attention is again devoted to the Brno environment (Otakar Teyschl, Václav Dvořák, Jiří Valoch, Karel Tutsch, Jan Vykoukal).

Emphasis will be placed on familiarization with conceptual apparatus and the development of understanding of the phenomenon in the context of history and social art history. Students are exemplified by the fates of specific works of art to understand the importance of provenience research in contemporary art-historical practice. We will introduce profiles of individual collectors, focus and development of their collections, psychological aspects and motivation of their collections. In the background we observe also the period stereotypes in the socially determined behavior and restriction that their bearers had to face in the course of history.

The related issues of the relation between private and institutional collections are also open, the standards and conditions of operation in the domestic and foreign environment are compared. Contextually, the relationship between the private and public collection space, the genesis and growth of the art museums, and the related aspects of the arts market are monitored.
Learning outcomes
Students are able to:

- classify the basic historical artistic collections with origin in our territory
- they know their orientation and fate, possible links to institutional collections
- apply knowledge gained in basic overview courses in the context of archival research
- actively work with relevant literature, home and foreign source and collection databases
- visually orientate themselves in the most well-known art-historical materials from our environment and are able to classify it from the point of proveniential history
- define the essence of artistic collectibility and patronage and develop the understanding of the notion in history and present
Syllabus
  • - the terminology of art collecting and patronage, their importance and development
  • - philosophical, psychological and literary reflection of collecting
  • - dominant aspects of art collecting, provenance research
  • - the beginnings on our territory, the collections of Charles IV.
  • - Rudolf II. as the patron and collector
  • - the main aristocratic collections of the 17th - 19th century
  • - Brno collections of 19th and early 20th century
  • - the most distinguished personalities of inter-war collecting in Prague
  • - the most prominent personalities of inter-war collecting in Brno
  • - the specifics of collecting after WWII, 1950s - 1960s
  • - a new wave of "standardization" collectors, from the 1970s to the 1980s
  • - the "standardization" collectors in Brno
  • - the key European and transatlantic 20th Century collectors and related museum collections
  • - private versus public collections, current institutional collections public and corporate, arts market mechanisms
Literature
    required literature
  • SLAVÍČEK, Lubomír. Cesta do hlubin sběratelovy duše. Sbírka moderního umění ostravského sběratele Vladimíra Kouřila ve světle jeho dopisů (A Journey into the Depths of a Collector’s Soul. The Collection of Modern Art of the Collector Vladimír Kouřil from Ostrava in the Light of His Letters). Opuscula historiae artium. Praha: Masarykova univerzita, 2013, roč. 62, č. 1, p. 44-67. ISSN 1211-7390. Digitální knihovna FF info
  • SLAVÍČEK, Lubomír. Chuť kupovat živé umění. Z korespondence brněnského sběratele moderního umění Františka Dvořáčka (A liking for purchasing living art. From the correspondence of František Dvořáček, a collector of modern art from Brno). Opuscula historiae artium. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2012, roč. 61, č. 1, p. 58–75. ISSN 1211-7390. info
  • SLAVÍČEK, Lubomír. "Sobě, umění, přátelům" : kapitoly z dějin sběratelství v Čechách a na Moravě 1650-1939. Vyd. 1. Brno: Barrister & Principal, 2007, 376 s. ISBN 9788087029220. info
  • SLAVÍČEK, Lubomír, Pavel PREISS, Vít VLNAS and Zdeněk HOJDA. Artis pictoriae amatores. Evropa v zrcadle pražského barokního sběratelství (Artis Pictoriae Amatores. Europe in the Mirror of Prague Baroque Collecting.). Praha: Národní galerie v Praze, 1993, 432 pp. ISBN 80-7035-052-0. info
  • SLAVÍČEK, Lubomír. Artis pictoriae amatores - barokní sběrateklství v Čechách a na Moravě. In Sběratelství. 1st ed. Praha: Svoboda, 1983, p. 61-78. ISBN není. info
    recommended literature
  • RUSINKO, Marcela. Josef Sudek sbírající. Neklidné zaujaté hledačství a diluviální vrstvy paměti (Josef Sudek Art Collector. Restless Seeking and Diluvial Memory Layers). Kontexty : Centrum pro studium demokracie a kultury. 2018, vol. 2018, No 1, p. 50-58. ISSN 1803-6988. info
  • RUSINKO, Marcela. Státem vedené soudní procesy závěru padesátých let a soukromé umělecké sběratelství v komunistickém Československu : Jaroslav Borovička a Václav Butta (State-led Trials in the 1950s and Private Art Collecting in the Communist Czechoslovakia : Jaroslav Borovička and Václav Butta). In Bartlová, Milena. Co bylo Československo? Kulturní konstrukce státní identity. 1st ed. Praha: UMPRUM, 2017, p. 226-235. ISBN 978-80-87989-23-4. info
  • RUSINKO, Marcela. „Živý květ jara“, či nový koncept? : Sběratelská reflexe tvorby Adrieny Šimotové v socialistickém Československu v letech 1965–1980. Nástin problematiky (‘A Living Flower of the Spring’ or a New Concept? : The Response of Collectors to the Work of Adriena Šimotová in State-Socialist Czechoslovakia between 1965 and 1980). Opuscula historiae artium. Masarykova univerzita, 2017, 66/2017, No 2, p. 166-181. ISSN 1211-7390. URL info
  • SVOBODOVÁ, Kateřina. Donatoren, Mäzene, Sammler. V Brně: Moravská galerie, 2010, 135 s. ISBN 9788070272220. info
  • TOMEK, Prokop. Život a doba ministra Rudolfa Baráka. Vyd. 1. Praha: Vyšehrad, 2009, 169 s. ISBN 9788070219829. info
  • ŠIMON, Patrik. Jindřich Waldes, sběratel umění. Vyd. 1. Praha: Patrik Šimon - Eminent, 2001, 227 s., [1. ISBN 80-902568-3-X. info
  • HASKELL, Francis. Past and present in art and taste : selected essays. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987, xv, 255. ISBN 0300036078. info
    not specified
  • Collecting the new :museums and contemporary art. Edited by Bruce Altshuler. 1 online r. ISBN 9781400849352. info
  • SLAVÍČEK, Lubomír. Zámecká obrazárna v Rájci nad Svitavou a sběratelství rodu ze Salm-Reifferscheidtů ve světle pramenů (Picture Gallery in Chateau Rájec nad Svitavou and the Salm-Reifferscheidt´s Art Collecting in the Light of Historical Sources). Opuscula historiae artium. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2014, vol. 63, 1-2, p. 94-119. ISSN 1211-7390. Digitální knihovna FF MU info
  • SLAVÍČEK, Lubomír. Milovník a sběratel výtvarného umění, přitel a mecenáš umělců (Art lover and collector, friend and patron of artists). In Chatrný, Jindřich; Červená, Radana. Otakar Teyschl : univerzitní profesor, lékař, sběratel, mecenáš. Vyd. 1. Brno: Statutární město Brno : Archiv města Brna, 2012, p. 70-125. ISBN 978-80-86736-27-3. info
  • SLAVÍČEK, Lubomír. Sběratelé, milovníci umění, nebo podivíni? Jiří Karásek ze Lvovic a pražské sběratelství 1895-1939. (Collectors, art lovers or eccentrics. Jiží Karásek of Lvovice and the Prague private art collecting 1895-1939.). In Sen o říši krásy. Sbírka Jiřího Karáska ze Lvovic. Dream of the Empire of Beauty. The Collection of Jiří Karásek of Lvovice. Praha: Obecní dům Praha - Památník národního písemnictví, 2001, p. 52-69. ISBN 80-86339-05-X. info
  • KOLÁŘ, Jiří. Stories of Jiří Kolář :poet's visual metamorphoses. Edited by Jan Rous - Marie Bergmanová. Praha: Gallery, 2000, 81 s. ISBN 8086010309. info
  • WALDES, Jindřich. Kupka - Waldes : malíř a jeho sběratel : dílo Františka Kupky ve sbírce Jindřicha Waldesa : [Malá galerie Rudolfinum, Praha 7.12.1999-9.1.2000]. Edited by František Kupka. 1. vyd. Praha: Antikvariát Meissner, 1999, 445 s. ISBN 8023846167. info
  • PEARCE, Susan M. Collecting in contemporary practice. 1st pub. London: SAGE Publications, 1998, vii, 213. ISBN 0761950818. info
  • SLAVÍČEK, Lubomír. Dvě podoby barokního šlechtického sběratelství 17. století v Čechách - sbírky Otty Nostice ml. (1608-1665) a Františka Antonína Berky z Dubé (1649-1706) (Two Types of Baroque Artistocratic Collecting in 17th Century Bohemia: Collections of Otto Nostice Jr. (1608-1665) and Count František Antonín Berka of Dubá (1649-1706)). In Opera historica. České Budějovice: Jihočeská univerzita, 1996, p. 483-513. Editio Universitatis Bohemiae Meridionalis. ISBN 80-7040-188-5. info
  • BELK, Russell W. Collecting in a consumer society. London: Routledge, 1995, v, 198 s. ISBN 0-415-10534-X. info
  • MUENSTERBERGER, Werner. Collecting : an unruly passion : psychological perspectives. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1994, xi, 295. ISBN 0691033617. info
  • HASKELL, Francis. History and its images : art and the interpretation of the past. 2nd print., with corrections. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993, x, 558. ISBN 0300059493. info
  • HASKELL, Francis. Patrons and painters : a study in the relations between Italian art and society in the age of the Baroque. Rev. and enlarged ed. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1982, xviii, 474. ISBN 0300025408. info
Teaching methods
Lectures
Assessment methods
The percentage attendance of students in lectures, their active involvement in lessons, the application of the knowledge acquired is monitored. The output is the final written test consisting of a visual and contextual-theoretical part, or an oral exam.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught only once.
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