Pavel Liška (art historian)

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Pavel Liška (born September 3, 1941 in Benešov ) is a Czech-German art historian , university director and publicist .

life and work

Pavel Liška grew up in Prague and studied nuclear engineering at the Charles University in Prague and the Technical University in Prague . In 1969 he was granted political asylum in the FRG, but was unable to get a job in Germany because of fears that he could spy.

After an additional study of art history, philosophy, history and archeology at the University of Hamburg , University of Berlin and University of Osnabruck he was in 1977 with a thesis on the paintings of the New Objectivity in Germany doctorate.

Liška has been a German citizen since 1980. He was based in Cologne for a longer period and speaks five languages.

Liška was a lecturer in art history at the University of Bielefeld , the Technical University of Dortmund and the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster.

Liška has been a curator and exhibition organizer since 1985. He worked for the Cologne Art Association and the Art Association for the Rhineland and Westphalia in Düsseldorf .

He organized exhibitions of the German-Czech artists Magdalena Jetelová and Milan Kunc in Prague. In 1994 he was a research assistant for the major project Europe ... Europe in the art and exhibition hall of the Federal Republic of Germany in Bonn .

From 1994 to 1997 he headed the Department of Art and Architecture at the Faculty of Architecture of the TU Liberec , then to the House of Art Dum umění the city of Brno to act as scientific director.

In 2001 he became scientific director of the Ostdeutsche Galerie art forum in Regensburg and in 2006 rector of the Prague Academy for Art, Architecture and Design Prague , VŠUP.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20090106145121/http://www.aski.org/kb3_01/kbknmog.htm working group of independent cultural institutes
  2. ↑ Kulturstiftung des Bundes ( Memento of the original from January 6, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed December 23, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kulturstiftung-des-bundes.de
  3. ↑ Harald Raab: Mittelbayrische Zeitung , accessed on December 23, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Pavel Liška
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech-German art historian, university director and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH September 3, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Benešov CSR