Abstract
A workshop was organised at the Institute of Art History and was attended by Marie Rakušanová, Françoise Lucbert (Université Laval, Québec, Canada), András Zwickl (Národní galerie v Budapešti, Maďarsko) and Anke Daemgen (Humboldt Forum, Berlin), Mahulena Nešlehová and Eva Bendová. The participants gave PowerPoint presentations to their colleagues on the work they are conducting within the framework of the project examining the position of the Czech painter Bohumil Kubišta (1884-1918) from a Central European, European, and global perspective.
In addition, excursions were made to several permanent exhibitions (the Trade Fair Palace and the House of the Black Madonna) and to several depositaries (the Painting Collection of the National Gallery in Prague at the Trade Fair Palace; the drawing collection held by the National Gallery, Kinsky Palace). These trips enabled the foreign researchers to became thoroughly acquainted with works by Bohumil Kubišta and his contemporaries.
The workshop included discussions between foreign and Czech colleagues regarding methodological questions relating to the processing of the material gathered. The discussions were extremely fruitful and confirmed that the participation of foreign colleagues on the research team is a unique opportunity to reappraise certain art history concepts that are entrenched in the Czech Republic and represent a barrier to a proper evaluation of certain aspects of our modernity and the avant-garde within a European context.