Ludmila Vachtová

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Ludmila Vachtová (2018)

Ludmila Vachtová (born September 24, 1933 in Beroun , Czechoslovakia ; † July 23, 2020 in Zurich ) was a Czech- Swiss art historian , art critic , curator and translator .

Life

After graduating from high school in 1951, Ludmila Vachtová studied art education at the Faculty of Education at Charles University in Prague . In 1954 she completed her studies with two diploma theses , Allegory and Symbol in Czech Baroque Sculpture and Renaissance Sculpture in Bohemia . She then wrote for the magazines Umění umění , Knižní kultura and Umění a řemesla . From 1957 to 1963 she studied art history and received her doctorate with a thesis on František Kupka . In 1964 she taught the history of modern art at the Institute of Journalism of the Philosophical Faculty of Masaryk University . From 1966 she was a member of the International Association of Art Critics AICA. In the 1960s, Vachtová curated in the Gallery on Charles Square and the Platýz Gallery in Prague. She met her future husband, the sculptor Florin Granwehr (1942–2019), in 1968, who visited Prague from Switzerland for the first time to witness the Soviet invasion. Vachtová and Granwehr married in 1969; the art historian stayed in Prague for professional reasons.

After the communist regime banned her contracts for upcoming publications (unpublished manuscripts: Zdeněk Sklenář , Odeon , Abstract Art , Obelisk , Constantin Brancusi ) and withdrew her passport, she traveled to Switzerland in December 1972 to visit her husband and lived with them from then on him in Zurich, she worked as a curator for exhibitions and art critic for the newspapers Neue Zürcher Zeitung (1974–1982), Tages-Anzeiger (1983–1989), Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (1982–1989) and for the Weltwoche (1990–2006). From 1975 to 1976 she taught the history of modern art at the Zurich School of Applied Arts, and in 1980 the history of Russian art at the University of Zurich .

From 1987 to 2000 she was chairwoman of the jury of the “ Kiefer Hablitzel Foundation ”, which awards grants for budding artists. From 1998 to 2004 she served on the Board of Trustees of the Roswitha Haftmann Foundation in Zurich. She published numerous artist monographs.

Publications (selection)

As an author / co-author / editor

Awards

  • 1968: Antonín Matějček Prize, Art Critic Prize
  • 1993: Prize of the Federal Office for Culture in the Bern Werkjahr for art criticism
  • 2001: Revolver Revue Prize
  • 2007: Second prize in the competition "The most beautiful Czech books of 2006" (books on fine arts, visual and photographic publications) for the book Now. The work of Eva Kmentová.

Quotes

  • Freundeskreis Florin Granwehr / Ludmila Vachtova: "... a highly distinguished and committed publicist and art critic who for decades precisely and lucidly kept up the debate about the meaning and quality of art."
  • Ewa Hess: "Your pen of integrity, your mischief, your intransigence were legendary on the editorial staff, and they remained an inimitable total work of art."

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Simon Baur: Having time - for art, for life. On the death of the art critic Ludmila Vachtova. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung, July 28, 2020, accessed on July 30, 2020.
  2. ↑ Ewa Hess: Obituary: The Unyielding. In: Tages-Anzeiger , Kultur, July 30, 2020, accessed on July 30, 2020.
  3. ↑ Remember, the mourning portal of Tages-Anzeiger: Ludmila Vachtova , accessed on July 30, 2020.
  4. ↑ Obituary notice Neue Zürcher Zeitung : Ludmila Vachtova , accessed on July 31, 2020.
  5. ↑ Board of Trustees of the Roswitha Haftmann Foundation from 1998 , accessed on July 30, 2020.
  6. ↑ Sabine Altorfer: When it comes to art, she did not tolerate any compromises. On the death of Ludmila Vachtova. . In: St. Galler Tagblatt , July 30, 2020, accessed on July 30, 2020
  7. ↑ Alex Bändiger: Art instead of art business. An exhibition and a book rightly demand attention for the forgotten painter Karl Jakob Wegmann. In: Journal21, February 16, 2015, accessed July 30, 2020.
  8. ^ "To remember", the mourning portal of the Tages-Anzeiger : Ludmila Vachtova , accessed on July 29, 2020.
  9. ↑ Ewa Hess: Obituary: The Unyielding . In: Tages-Anzeiger , Kultur, July 30, 2020, accessed on July 30, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Vachtová, Ludmila
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Granwehr-Vachtová, Ludmila (married name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech-Swiss art historian, art critic, curator and translator
DATE OF BIRTH September 24, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Beroun , Czech Republic
DATE OF DEATH 23rd July 2020
Place of death Zurich