František Žákavec

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František Žákavec

František Žákavec (born February 23, 1878 in Kdyně , † December 25, 1937 in Prague ) was a Czech art historian .

Life

František Žákavec studied Romance studies at the Philosophical Faculty of Charles University in Prague from 1896 to 1899 and from 1899 to 1900 as a scholarship holder at the Sorbonne in Paris. There his interest in visual arts deepened. He completed his studies in Prague. After graduating, he started working as a teacher in various schools. From 1918 onwards he worked intensively on art history. He completed his habilitation at the Comenius University in Bratislava , where he taught as a professor of art history from 1924.

From 1933 he was a corresponding and from 1934 extraordinary member of the Czech Academy of Sciences and Arts .

Publications (selection)

  • Knížka o Alšovi. Výbor 50 obrazů. S podobiznou od M. Švabinského a 17 obrázky v textu. Nákladem dědictví komenského, Prague 1912 ( archive.org , a book about Mikoláš Aleš ).
  • Chrám znovuzrození: o budovatelích a budově Národního divadla v Praze. J. Štenc, Parg 1918 (on the builders and construction of the National Theater in Prague).
  • O Bellmannových "memories" ao Nerudovi . In: Listy filologické / Folia philologica . tape 45 , no. 6 , 1918, ISSN  0024-4457 , p. 349-359 , JSTOR : 23445324 (Czech).
  • L'oeuvre de Joseph Mánes. Jan Štenc, Prague 1923 (about the painter Josef Mánes ).

literature

  • Lubomír Slavíček (ed.): Slovník historiků umění, výtvarných kritiků, teoretiků a publicistů v českých zemích a jejich spolupracovníků z příbuzných oborů (asi 1800–2008) . Academia, Prague 2016, ISBN 978-80-200-2094-9 , Volume 2, pp. 1732-1733.

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personal data
SURNAME Žákavec, František
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Žákavec, François (French form of name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech art historian
DATE OF BIRTH February 23, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Kdyně
DATE OF DEATH December 25, 1937
Place of death Prague