Visions of Antiquity and the Middle Ages in the Drawings of Ludvík Kohl

The painter Ludvík Kohl (1746–1821) was a founding figure of 19th-century art in Bohemia. Several years prior to the establishment of the Art Academy in Prague, which was founded in 1799, he gave private live model drawing lessons. In some of his own work he embraced Antiquity as a paradigm for Neoclassical art. At the same time he constructed fictitious Gothic architecture in his drawings, an approach that already reflects the pre-Romantic interest in the Middle Ages and its spiritual aspect. In this way, his work is a reflection of the disctinctive multi-layered art created at the turn of eras.

Trade Fair Palace – 4th floor
Curator: Petr Šámal