Luise Mahler: Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler and Vincenc Kramář Writing on Cubism

Name: Luise Mahler: Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler and Vincenc Kramář Writing on Cubism
Start: 2024-06-26T16:30:00+02:00
End: 2024-06-26T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Ústav dějin umění Akademie věd ČR, v. v. i.

Schedule

Wed Jun 26 2024 at 04:30 pm to 06:00 pm

UTC+02:00

Location

Ústav dějin umění Akademie věd ČR, v. v. i. | Prague, PR

Srdečně Vás zveme na poslední přednášku letního semestru v cyklu Collegium historiae artium:
Luise Mahler
(Independent Scholar and Adjunct Associate Professor, Art Market Studies, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York)
ve středu 26. června 2024 v 16:30 h
Ústav dějin umění AV ČR
Husova 4, Praha 1
I. patro, č. 117
In 1915 war-torn Europe, the two individuals then perhaps
most familiar with Georges Braque’ and Pablo Picasso’s
cubism, the art historian Vincenc Kramář and the modern art
dealer Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, found themselves at
professional crossroads. Called up to serve in the war, Kramář
resolved to reorient his scholarship more fully to living art and
cubism in particular. At the same time, forced into exile and his
gallery stock confiscated, Kahnweiler turned to writing a
theory of aesthetics and his version of Cubism’s origin story.
The results of their respective endeavors – Der Weg zum
Kubismus (1920) for Kahnweiler and Kubismus (1921) for
Kramář – form the basis of the still ongoing critical
examination of this radical art. With that said, while
Kahnweiler’s contribution is omnipresent, it is limited in its
breadth. Kramář ’s input remains altogether little reckoned
with outside of Central-Eastern Europe.
Luise Mahler is the lead researcher on the project that
addresses this situation. The initiative’s main outcome is the
first English-language translation of Kramář’s Kubismus and
Kahnweiler’s Der Gegenstand der Ästhetik which contains the
chapters published as Der Weg des Kubismus. Her lecture will
focus on some of the key theoretical concepts underlying both
texts and how the context in which they emerged in turn
shaped their treatment by Kramář and Kahnweiler.