Reception of Japanese art in Czech painting and graphic

This thesis presents various manifestation od japanese art impression including the influence of french cultural metropolis. This phenomenon is presented throught some concrete painting and graphic pieces. On the following pages there are exemined works of Czech art individualities, who had worked from seventies of nineteenth century when the influence of Japanese art was coming in Czech culture till thirtieth of twenties century before the beginning of World War Two. This thesis is split to sixteen chapters including first publications about Japanese art in Czech, foundation of Naprstek library (1858) and muzeum (1863) and its collection of Japanese art and its contributors, Czech exhibition of Japanese art, personality of Sigismund Bouška and his relation to graphic artist Josef Váchal, correnspondence of two culture personalities of nineteenth century Zdenka Braunerová (1858-1934) and Julius Zeyer (1841-1901), shops with Asian articles, calligraphy of Luděk Marold, posters works, book illustrations, ex libris, personality of Emil Orlik, Antonín Hudeček, Rudolf Kremlička, the influence of Japanese personalities of Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) and Kitagawa Utamaro (1753-1806), coloured expressionisme of Václav Špála (1885-1946) and chosen motifs from Japanese art in Czech art. The first chapter is..