DOI Artikel:
Kolbiarz Chmelinová, Katarína: University art history in Slovakia after WWII and its sovietization in the 1950s
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.52521#0169
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1. Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Arts and Faculty of Law, seat of Art History
Subdepartament in the 1950s. Photo: Olja Triaśka Stefanovic
a professor of Prehistoric Archeology. He was replaced in the 1940/1941 aca-
demic year by Branislav Varsik, a professor of General History who was suc-
ceeded by Andrej Mrâz, a professor of the History of Slovak Literature (from
1942/1943). However, the executive duties fell on the shoulders of Eugen
Dostał, an art history professor from the University of Brno, and a student of
the famous Max Dvorak.8 When he suddenly died in 1943, it was clear that
he, like his predecessors, had not managed to prepare a much-needed suc-
cessor and thus he did not leave a deeper mark on art history instruction in
Slovakia. Although the Czech art historian Vaclav Menci was granted an as-
sociate professorship at Comenius University in 1938, he and his wife Dobro-
slava, an expert in Slovak architecture, were forced to leave Slovakia because
8 J. Bakos, "Pribeh zakliatej vednej discipliny. Seminar dejin umenia na Bratislavskej
univerzite", in: Poeta Väclavovi Menclovi. Zbomik stûdii k otdzkam interpretdeie stre-
doeurópskeho umenia, Bratislava 2000, p. 11. The article is a key text on the history of the
Department of Art History at the Faculty of Arts at the Comenius University in Bratislava.
For the list of lectures on art history by Prof. Dostał in Bratislava, see the academic year
1941/1942 in: 95+ Dejiny umenia..., p. 95.
1. Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Arts and Faculty of Law, seat of Art History
Subdepartament in the 1950s. Photo: Olja Triaśka Stefanovic
a professor of Prehistoric Archeology. He was replaced in the 1940/1941 aca-
demic year by Branislav Varsik, a professor of General History who was suc-
ceeded by Andrej Mrâz, a professor of the History of Slovak Literature (from
1942/1943). However, the executive duties fell on the shoulders of Eugen
Dostał, an art history professor from the University of Brno, and a student of
the famous Max Dvorak.8 When he suddenly died in 1943, it was clear that
he, like his predecessors, had not managed to prepare a much-needed suc-
cessor and thus he did not leave a deeper mark on art history instruction in
Slovakia. Although the Czech art historian Vaclav Menci was granted an as-
sociate professorship at Comenius University in 1938, he and his wife Dobro-
slava, an expert in Slovak architecture, were forced to leave Slovakia because
8 J. Bakos, "Pribeh zakliatej vednej discipliny. Seminar dejin umenia na Bratislavskej
univerzite", in: Poeta Väclavovi Menclovi. Zbomik stûdii k otdzkam interpretdeie stre-
doeurópskeho umenia, Bratislava 2000, p. 11. The article is a key text on the history of the
Department of Art History at the Faculty of Arts at the Comenius University in Bratislava.
For the list of lectures on art history by Prof. Dostał in Bratislava, see the academic year
1941/1942 in: 95+ Dejiny umenia..., p. 95.