Dispossessing Art Collectors In Communist Czechoslovakia

RUSINKO, Marcela. Dispossessing Art Collectors In Communist Czechoslovakia. In International Conference Dispossessions of Cultural Objects between 1914 and 1989/1991 Alpe Adria Region in Comparative Perspective Ljubljana. France Stele Institute of Art History ZRC SAZU March 19-21, 2018. 2018.

Základní údaje

Originální název

Dispossessing Art Collectors In Communist Czechoslovakia

Autoři

RUSINKO, Marcela

Vydání

International Conference Dispossessions of Cultural Objects between 1914 and 1989/1991 Alpe Adria Region in Comparative Perspective Ljubljana. France Stele Institute of Art History ZRC SAZU March 19-21, 2018, 2018

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Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Vyžádané přednášky

Obor

60401 Arts, Art history

Stát vydavatele

Česká republika

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Organizační jednotka

Filozofická fakulta

Klíčová slova anglicky

dispossessing; confiscating art collectors; communist Czechoslovakia; former social elites persecution; court trials

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Anotace

V originále

In the first decade after 1948 Communist coup d'état, private art collecting in Czechoslovakia experienced a great deal of ideologically motivated oppression. The targeted, systemic actions against so-called "former people" and other representatives of the "defeated" social classes, who had hitherto been the vehicles of this art collecting phenomenon, were taken. The persecution peaked in 1959 and 1960 by exemplary trials with eminent pre-war art collectors, former representatives of the bourgeoisie. This provoked the extensive new post-war wave of violent dispossessions of private artistic assets, the significant mobility of prominent and large art collections from private to public sphere in the late 1950s and early 1960s. The paper concerns several well documented cases of trials, resulting in the confiscation of property, the enrichment of the leading public collections and exemplary punishment and also cases of other "soft" ways of dispossessing individuals through the wide spread Czech institute of s. c. "legislatively forced gift". The violently realized collection transfers gave rise to completely new public art museums exposition outputs devoted not only to modern art in Czechoslovakia during the 1960s.