Kateřina Kuthanová

Kateřina Kuthanová

Praha °1976 

Research interests: The history of art and culture of the 19th century, the history of sculpture at the turn of the century, the history of women, Czech-German relations within the Czech lands until 1918 and the interconnectedness within the German-speaking countries of Central Europe.

 Affiliation: UMPRUM, Department of Art History

Mgr. Kateřina Kuthanová is an art historian specializing in the history of art and culture of the 19th century. She graduated with a Master's degree from Charles University in Prague with a Master's thesis entitled Women Artists in the Second Half of the 19th Century in 2008. Afterwards she worked as a curator of sculpture in the 19th Century Collection at the National Gallery in Prague. Since 2016 she has been a member of the research project Traces of Creation. The Legacy of Great Sculptors of the First Half of the 20th Century at the Institute of Art History AV ČR, v. v. i. Since 2019 she has been studying a Ph.D. programme at the Department of Art History at UMPRUM with the topic Czech and Czech-German Women Painters in the New Reception of 19th Century Art History.

Research 

Czech and Czech-German Women Painters in the New Reception of 19th Century Art History. The dissertation research focuses on the work of German-speaking women artists from the Czech lands in the second half of the long 19th century and integrates their work back into Czech art history. It deals with questions of the relationship between language and culture. It maps the infrastructures of artistic activity of Czech-German women artists not only within the Czech lands but also in the German-speaking environment of Central Europe. It traces the international study and exhibition network created by German-speaking women artists from the Czech lands at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries between Munich, Berlin, Vienna and the Czech lands. The research aims not only to bring women artists back into Czech art history, but also to reintegrate the minority of Czech-German women artists.