"Berlin over Prague like the heaven above the earth . " Czech -German cultural transfer in the tenth and the twentieth of the 20th century (nebo in the 1910s and the 1920s)
Abstract
From the turn of the 19th and 20th century to the interwar period there appeared unprecedent amount of artistic talents in the cultural capitals - Prague, Vienna and Berlin. Those artist left indelible traces in Czech and German and Czech - German cultural tradition.
This paper is dedicated to meeting and mingling of Czech and German culture at the beginning of the 20th century in which the leaders of both those nations were losing and finding their places. A specific example of cultural transfer was selected from Czech and German visual art , for which they were primarily two facts important: firstly the emergence of informal communication centers in the surveyed capitals – they were either public or private in nature (cafes, salons , etc.).
The second factor was the effect of intermediaries ( brokers ) who used those centers to ensure contacts between the Czech ( Czechoslovak ) and the German millieu.