Course detail

International and Czech Art of the Second Half of the 19th Century in Context

FaVU-1SCU19st-LAcad. year: 2022/2023

The course gives basic overview of trends, movements, developmental connections and key representatives of architecture, urban planning, visual and applied arts of the 2nd half of 19th century in the Czech lands and on the international level.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

Mgr. Jana Kořínková, Ph.D.

Department

Department of Art History and Theory (KTDU)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Elementary knowledge of architecture, urban planning, visual and applied arts of the 2nd half of 19th century in the Czech lands and on the international level.

Prerequisites

Basic overview of the cultural and political history of the 19th century.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Lectures, field trips, lectures by external scholars.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Written test.

Course curriculum

1. Architecture of historicism, industrial architecture (neogothic, neorenaissance, neobaroque, Semper), origins of heritage protection
2. 19th century urban planning and development of modern cities (Vienese Ringstrasse, Paris, Camillo Sitte)
3. The Barbizon school (Corot, Rousseau, Constable)
4. Impressionism (Manet, Monet, Degas, Sisley)
5. Post-impresionims (Cézanne, Toulouse-Lautrec, Seurat, Gogh, Gauguin)
6. The artist and architects of the Prague National Theatre generation (Schulz, Zítek, Hynais, Aleš, Brožík, Schnirch, Myslbek)
7. The Preraphaelite Brotherhood and symbolism (Ruskin, Morris, Burne-Jones, Millais, Rossetti)
8. The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations (1851), 19th century applied arts and the emergence of Arts and Crafts movement
9. Auguste Rodin and sculpture of the 2nd half of the 19th cettury (Rosso, Bartholdi)
10. Painting and sculpture of the 2nd half of the 19th cettury in the Czech lands (Pinkas, Purkyně, Kosárek, Čermák, Marold, Myslbek, Mánes artists association)
11. Architecture, painting and sculpture of the 2nd half of the 19th cettury in Brno (Förster, Hansen, Ferstel, Břenek, Loos st.)
12. The origins of photography
13. A lecture by external scholar

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

The objective of the course is to gain knowledge of the development in architecture, urban planning, visual and applied arts both in the Czech lands and internationally during lectures, field trips and consultations with expert guest lecturers.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

Lecures are optional.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

David Venclík, Schmidtův Karlštejn. Neogotická rekonstrukce středověkého hradu na pozadí doby, Umění LXI, 2013, č. 5, s. 422–436. (CS)
Emanuel Poche et al., Praha národního probuzení, Praha 1980. (CS)
Jindřich Vybíral, Česká architektura na prahu moderní doby. Devatenáct esejů o devatenáctém století, Praha 2002. (CS)
Naděžda Blažíčková-Horová, České malířství 19. Století. Katalog stálé expozice Sbírky umění 19. století: Klášter sv. Anežky České, Národní galerie v Praze, Praha 1998. (CS)
Naděžda Blažíčková-Horová, Umění 19. století v Čechách (1790–1910). Malířství, sochařství a užité umění: Národní galerie v Praze, Klášter sv. Jiří na Pražském hradě: průvodce expozicí, Praha 2009. (CS)
Pavel Zatloukal, Meditace o architektuře. Olomouc – Brno – Hradec Králové 1815–1915, Řevnice 2016. (CS)
Pavel Zatloukal, Příběhy z dlouhého století. Architektura let 1750–1918. Architektura let 1750 – 1918 na Moravě a ve Slezsku, Olomouc 2002. (CS)
Pavla Cenková, Vkusné a solidní. Měšťanské sochařství v Brně 1800–1880, Brno 2013. (CS)
René Huyghe et al., Umění nové doby, Praha 1974. (CS)
Taťána Petrasová – Helena Lorencová (eds.), Dějiny českého výtvarného umění 1780/1890 (III/2), Praha 2001. (CS)
Vojtěch Volavka, České malířství a sochařství 19. století, Praha 1968. (CS)

Type of course unit

Lecture

26 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

Mgr. Jana Kořínková, Ph.D.

Syllabus

1) French sculpture in Neo - barocco style. Charles Garnier, Opera. Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux.
2) Sculptural monuments, new technologies. Auguste Bartholdi, Liberty Statue. Sculptural monuments in Germany.
3) Auguste Rodin. Early work. Impressionism and symbolism. Clay, marble, bronze. Realizations and projects of 80´s and 90´s. Rodin and Photography. Camille Claudel.
4) Sculpture of the end of 19th Century. Verism. Darwinism - Emmanuel Frémiet. Social monument. Jules Dalou. Constantin Meunier. Impressionism - Medardo Rosso. Symbolism and Art Nouveau. Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Alfred Gilbert. Gustav Vigeland. Painters - sculptors. Honoré Daumier. Jean-Léon Gérome, Gustave Doré, Edgar Degas, Frederic Leighton.
5) Great style and the end of the History Painting. New themes, exotic matters. (Laurens), (Jean-Léon Gerome), pleinair principles. Adolph von Menzel. Lawrence Alma-Tadema. Frederic Lord Leighton - Artist´s House. Theatrical tendencies. Karl von Piloty. Vienna - the end of Nazarenes, "Makart Style" (Hans Makart).
6) Historical Painting XIX. století in the Czech Crown countries. Christian Ruben, his school. Belgian school, Louis Gallait, his pupil Jaroslav Čermák. Exoticism, history, contemporary life in his paintings. Mikoláš Aleš, lost ambitions after historical painting, realizations in drawings, graffitto. Václav Brožík, Parisian success, pleinair obsession. Luděk Marold.
7) Evropské painting of the 2nd half of 19th century. Pleinairism, Barbizon School. Camille Corot. Théodore Rousseau, Charles Daubigny etc.
8) Realism. Gustave Courbet. Francois Millet. Honoré Daumier. Naturalism, country themes. Bastien Lepage. Jules Breton.
9) Edouard Manet - tradition in his painting, impressionist period. James McNeill Whistler. Artist and society, "La Bohéme", japanism and decoration, music in painting.
10) Impressionism. Exhibitions. Claude Monet - principle of series. Giverny. Auguste Renoir, Camille Pissarro, Edgar Degas, Gustave Caillebotte etc. Women painters.
11) So called Post Impressionism. Paul Cézanne. Georges Seurat .Henri Toulose-Lautrec Vincent van Gogh - realism, impressionismus, christian symbolism.
12) Preraffaelism. John Everett Millais. Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Edward Burne-Jones. William Morris.
13) Painting and Sculpture in the Czech Crown Countries id the 2nd half of 19th Century. Realism. Karel Purkyně. Soběslav Pinkas. Viktor Barvitius. Max Haushofer and his landscape painting school from romantism to realism. Adolf Kosárek. Alois Bubák. Painter of Barbizon style Wilhelm Riedel.
14) So called National Theatre generation. Mikoláš Aleš, František Ženíšek, Josef Tulka. Vojtěch Hynais. J.V.Myslbek, his sculpture from classicism, romantism to realism. Great realizations.
15) Josef Hlávka, architect, gratest Czech foundator, since today, his influence on Czech culture and art academy.
Neoromantism, naturalism, luminism, Art Nouveau. Gabriel Max. Max Pirner. Jakub Schikaneder. Hanuš Schwaiger. Felix Jenewein. Folklorism. Joža Úprka and Moravian Association of the artists (SVUM). .
16) "Czech Parisians" Luděk Marold. Zdenka Braunerová, her activities. Landscape Antonín Chittussi and his influence. Czech Landscape painting since 90s. Julius Mařák and his school. Antonín Slavíček. Otakar Lebeda. František Kaván. Jaroslav Panuška. Antonín Hudeček. Landscape painters "off the school". Ludvík Kuba, painter etnografist. Václav Radimský in Monet´s Giverny.