Status: Completed
Project duration: 2020 - 2022
Funded by: Ministry of culture Czech Republic
Main researcher: MgA. Jitka Škopová
Project summary:
The research team will examine the phenomenon of collaboration of major regional First-Republic industrialists and drivers of progress of their time with contemporaneous artists, architects and designers. The examination will further evaluate their entrepreneurial strategy, power influence and the impact on the modern events of the 20th century on the operation of the selected families. The importance of entrepreneurial efforts during the First Republic (1918 - 1938) and their legacy for the present day will be presented by means of exhibitions and publication to interested parties from individual regions, students of elementary and secondary schools and universities and to the general community.
What were the results of this project?
Project showed the interconnection of industry and art, the main source of which were the family archives of four selected entrepreneurial families, which have not been published yet. These include correspondence, architectural plans, accounting books, technological processes, two-dimensional and three-dimensional exhibits, and others.
Furthermore, the project showed close cooperation between artists, architects, and designers of the time with entrepreneurs, and the reflection of the power influence and political relation of examined industrial families in the context of Czechoslovak First Republic policy, which creates a firm mythical framework of existing collective identity and national discourse of narrative memory.
The results were four exhibitions, each one dedicated to different connection between industry and art and four critical catalogues for these exhibitions.
The four connection between industry and art were:
1. Fischer family and Marie Fisherová-Kvěchová (Czech painter)
2. Binko family and Josef Gočár (Czech architect)
3. Sochor family and František Kysela (Czech painter)
4. Karel Koch and Dušan Jurkovič (Slovakian architect)
