Markéta Svobodová: Czechoslovak Students at the Bauhaus - Lecture at VI PER

The lecture will be dedicated to Czechoslovak students at the Bauhaus, of whom around twenty attended this school of modernism between 1919 and 1933, primarily in the departments of architecture, photography, and textiles. The author will also present their work, which she has attempted to document, including an interview with one of the children of Bauhaus graduates, whose further fates were mostly very troubled. The lecture is a supplementary program of the exhibition The Matter of Data at Gallery VI PER.
Mgr. Markéta Svobodová, Ph.D. works in the Department of Artistic-Historical Topography of the Institute of Art History of the Czech Academy of Sciences, focusing on architecture of the 19th to 21st centuries. She has participated in the documentation of Artistic Monuments of Prague and is concurrently working on the Artistic Monuments of Moravia and Silesia. In her research, she also concentrates on the intersections of architecture with scenography, exhibition design, or industrial design, as well as the theory and sociology of architecture. In 2016, her book Bauhaus a Československo 1919­–1938. Studenti, koncepty, kontakty / The Bauhaus and Czechoslovakia 1919–1938. Students, Concepts, Contacts was published. In 2020, she released the publication Hore zdar! Stavební strategie Klubu českých/československých turistů 1888–1949 (1989–2015). She collaborates on the project Transformations of Rural Architecture, focusing on developments in the 19th and 20th centuries (NAKI) and is the principal investigator of the grant project František Kalivoda (1913–1971) in the European context (GAČR).