PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Wittlich, Filip
TI  - From Exhibitions to Collections : Exhibitions of the Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague in the Years 1905-1939 and the Photographic Collection FormationVon den Ausstellungen zur Sammlung : Die Ausstellungen des KunstgewerbeMuseums in Prag in den Jahren 1905- 1939 und die Entstehung seiner Fotosammlung
DP  - 2022 Jun 15
TA  - Staletá Praha
PG  - 48--75
VI  - 38
IP  - 1
AID - 10.56112/sp.2022.1.03
IS  - 02316056
AB  - This article deals with the most significant photographic exhibitions organized in the Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague from the turn of the century to 1939, describing the process of the gradual inclusion of photography first in the exhibition and then in the museum's collection program. In chronological order, attention is mainly paid to the Exhibition of Czech Portrait Miniatures and Small Effigies held in 1913, the Exhibition of Photographs in 1914 and especially the exhibition One Hundred Years of Czech Photography in 1939. In this context the formation of the museum's photographic collection is discussed together with the circumstances of the acquisition of photographic work by František Drtikol. Valuable, hitherto unused, archival evidence of the Museum of Decorative Arts provides a remarkable insight not only into one of the chapters in the history of Czech photography, but also into museum's everyday life, exhibition and publication practice and into the research and cultural-social context of the period.