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Current Affairs"Hitler watercolor" goes up for auction on Czech website
Years before becoming one of the worst mass murderers of all time, Adolf
Hitler struggled to make ends meet as an artist. Paradoxically, while the
exact whereabouts of the German dictator's remains are uncertain, there is
a busy trade today in the paintings he made in the early 1900s, which
nobody was interested in buying at the time. Recently a watercolor
purported to be by Adolf Hitler went on the auction block on a Czech
website.
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Current AffairsMucha's masterpiece may be in Prague by 2008
The Art Nouveau "Slav Epic" is considered the magnum opus of the
artist Alfons Mucha. But for decades the paintings have been housed
"temporarily" in a chateau in a small Moravian village which is
difficult to reach. The city of Prague has long wished to build a home for
the paintings, and a spokesman now says construction of a permanent gallery
could start in a little more than a year.
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Current AffairsPainter Josef Capek's "Foot Bath" sets new Czech auction record
2006 has been an unusually successful year for Czech art auction houses.
With the number of collectors growing and ever more valuable pieces on
sale, turnover is soaring. This weekend, another record was broken. A
Cubist painting by the renowned twentieth century artist Josef Capek was
auctioned off for 9.3 million Czech crowns, which is over 430,000 US
dollars. Dita Asiedu reports:
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Current AffairsExhibition marks 500 years since painting of "The Feast of the Rose Garlands"
One of the most precious works of art to be seen in the Czech Republic is
no doubt "The Feast of the Rose Garlands" by the German painter
Albrecht Duerer. Exactly 500 years have passed since the masterpiece was
painted in Venice and to mark the anniversary, Prague's National Gallery
is holding an exhibition this summer, displaying the painting, along with
other works by Duerer and many tributes to the original masterpiece.
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Current AffairsSpeculation over Rembrandt painting: is the old man Jan Amos Comenius?
Millions of people have admired it at the Uffizi Art Gallery in Florence.
Now, Rembrandt's painting of an old man has acquired a new significance
for Czechs. According to Ernst van de Wetering, a Dutch art specialist,
the anonymous old man in the painting is almost certainly one of the most
prominent figures in Czech history - the teacher of nations Jan Amos
Comenius.
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This week in Mailbox: Czech ice hockey player Jaromir Jagr; the origin of
the name Hybernska Street; 'Slav Epic' by Alfons Mucha; street crime in
Prague. Listeners quoted: Constantin Liviu Viorel, Romania; Stuart
Paterson, UK; Steve Scott; Nicole Buckler, Ireland.
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Current AffairsSpring season for Czech auction houses starts off with a bang
The Czech Republic's art and antique auction houses certainly have a season
to look forward to if this year's opening auction at the Dorotheum auction
house in Prague is anything to go by. Three records were broken on
Saturday. Items valued at 14 million crowns (a little over half a million
US dollars) were sold for 22 million (around 900,000 US dollars), the best
turnover that the country's established houses have ever witnessed.
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Current AffairsThe unbelievable story of a 17th-century cameo
Lost, stolen, sold, discovered in an antique shop, confiscated, ruined by a
flood and finally restored and returned to its owner - that's the turbulent
story of a 17th-century painting of a wealthy Prague burgher that was once
in possession of Prague's Municipal Museum. The museum is now showing the
cameo portrait whose story is just as interesting as the story of the man
it depicts.
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The smallest zoo in the Czech Republic has announced the birth of the
smallest deer in the world - a barking Muntjak! Climbing into a 15 metre
long crocodile's jaws is easier than it may sound. And "WANTED"
for graffity art! Find out more in Magazine with Daniela Lazarova.
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Current Affairs18th century painting re-exhibited at National Gallery after almost 100 years
The National Gallery in Prague boasts a new exhibit in its Collection of
Old Masters, although new is not quite the word. On the contrary the
ceiling canvas "Phaeton Begging the Chariot of Apollo" dates
back to the beginning of the 18th century, and has been in the Gallery's
possession for many years. But the work was damaged and for almost a
hundred years was hidden from visitors. Now it has been painstakingly
restored and since Tuesday has been on show in the National Gallery's
Sternberg Palace.
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