Zprávy památkové péče, 2025 (vol. 85), issue 3

Editorial

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Zprávy památkové péče 2025, 85(3):181

Bohumil Hypšman (1878–1961): Wagner’s pupil in the service of Libuše and the historical value of the historic town

Martin Strakoš

Zprávy památkové péče 2025, 85(3):183-202 | DOI: 10.56112/zpp.2025.3.01

This study addresses the insufficiently comprehensive knowledge of Bohumil Hypšman’s architectural and urban planning work, especially his early period and his relationship to Viennese modernism. It offers a solution in the form of a comprehensive analysis of contemporary reflections, archival materials, and Hypšman’s school and early projects, set in the broader context of the Wagner school. The result is a more accurate reconstruction of Hypšman’s professional formation, identification of key modern influences from Vienna, and a new assessment of his first Prague projects. The work thus contributes to a better understanding of Hypšman’s...

Pinkas Prague Collection – a sociological and historical probe into the fate of the Pinkas family collection

Adam Rejha

Zprávy památkové péče 2025, 85(3):203-214 | DOI: 10.56112/zpp.2025.3.02

This article is a case study of the fate of a family collection assembled since the 19th century, which was taken over by the National Cultural Commission as state cultural property following a court verdict against its last private owner. The state acquired the property, known as the Pinkas Prague Collection (Svoz Pinkas Praha), through the confiscation of the assets of Ladislav Pinkas Jr. (1900–1975?), who was convicted by the State Court in a fabricated trial in 1950. Pinkas became a person of interest to the StB (State Security Service) because of his contacts at the British Embassy, but also because of the family collection of his influential...

Triptych from the workshop of Bernardo Daddi: a family heirloom of the Collalto family

Tomáš Gaudek

Zprávy památkové péče 2025, 85(3):215-222 | DOI: 10.56112/zpp.2025.3.03

One of the items referred to in Czech literature as missing is an Italian triptych that long adorned the South Moravian estates of the Italian Collalto family. The work did not disappear, however, but was sold by the last member of the family settled in Moravia to the prominent collection of Count Antoine Seilern, who bequeathed his rich collection to the Courtauld Institute in London. The article provides information about the fate of the work and the vicissitudes of post-war research on both sides of the Iron Curtain which unwittingly complement the intricate fates of people in the shadow of totalitarianism and a polarized world. The study concludes...

Jindřich Bělohříbek’s art collection at his castle in Vinoř

Jakub Žák

Zprávy památkové péče 2025, 85(3):223-234 | DOI: 10.56112/zpp.2025.3.04

This partial study provides information about ongoing research into the collecting activities of Jindřich Bělohříbek, former deputy director of the Živnostenská Bank. It provides information not only on how Jindřich built his collection, but also on where the individual items were distributed after 1945, when the Bělohříbek family’s property was confiscated. The study draws on rich archival material, databases of individual collecting institutions, and oral history. Another important source is the preserved photographs of the castle’s interior and the objects themselves. The entire work provides new information about a previously almost...

Artistic decoration of the interiors of the Družba department store in Prague

Anna Schránilová

Zprávy památkové péče 2025, 85(3):235-251 | DOI: 10.56112/zpp.2025.3.05

This article is a loose continuation of a previously published and more detailed treatise on the work and influence of architect Vratislav Růžička and his collaborators. The previous article focused on three of Růžička’s Prague projects – the Družba department store on Wenceslas Square, the Urology Clinic in Karlov, and the headquarters of the Central Dispatch Office of Municipal Transport in Na Bojišti Street. Thanks to period photographs of the interiors of the sales area of the first of these buildings, found after the publication of the previous article in the archives of the Czech Union of Production Cooperatives (ČSVD), it is now...

The Future of the Austrian Northwest Railway Station Building in Děčín

Karel Hájek

Zprávy památkové péče 2025, 85(3):252-263 | DOI: 10.56112/zpp.2025.3.06

In 2025, the world will commemorate the 200th anniversary of the opening of the Stockton–Darlington railway line in England in 1825. This line was the first public railway in the world and thus became a pioneer of the railway as a new transport system. We can use this occasion to remember that we also have extraordinary examples of railway construction and architecture in our country. One of them is the station building of the Austrian Northwest Railway in Děčín, which represents one of the pinnacles of late 19th-century railway architecture in our country. The unnecessary demolition of the Prague-Těšnov station building of the same railway company,...

„Člověk je jako stopa v písku smytá přílivem.“ Vzpomínka na PhDr. Vratislava Nejedlého, CSc. (* 1950 – † 2025)

Kateřina Adamcová

Zprávy památkové péče 2025, 85(3):264-265

Společně na cestě krajinou restaurování. Rozhovor s Janem Bradnou o Vratislavu Nejedlém

Kateřina Adamcová

Zprávy památkové péče 2025, 85(3):265-270

Ohlédnutí za radostným životem PhDr. Vratislava Nejedlého, CSc. (1950–2025)

Viktor Kovařík, Petr Kuneš, Petr Skalický

Zprávy památkové péče 2025, 85(3):271-279

Jan Muk. Osobnost lidská a vědecká (1935–1994)

Filip Facincani

Zprávy památkové péče 2025, 85(3):280-281

ATÚ: automatické telefonní ústředny: společnost, technologie, architektura

Jaroslav Zeman

Zprávy památkové péče 2025, 85(3):281-283