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Chytil, Vojtech

(1896-1936) : Tschechischer Diplomat, Maler

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Art : General / Index of Names : Occident

Chronology Entries (6)

# Year Text Linked Data
1 1921 Vojtech Chytil wird als Diplomat nach Tokyo geschickt. Er hat Kontakt mit China, kauft und verkauft Bilder.
2 1928 Erste kommerzielle Ausstellung der Sammlung von Vojtech Chytil im Rudolfinum der Fine Artists' Union in Prag, Tschechoslowakei.
3 1928-1929 Vojtech Chytil kauft Kunst für Ausstellungen in China.
4 1929-1930 Bedrich Feuerstein trifft Vojtech Chytil in China. Sie bereisen Shanghai, Beijing, Tianjin, die grosse Mauer und Shenyang (Liaoning).
5 1930-1933 Vojtech Chytil writes in the exhibition catalogues 1930 Vienna, 1931 Prague, 1933 London : "The present exhibition is a manifestation of the art of three greatest artists of contemporary China. Besides Qi Baishi, it's the landscape painter Xiao Qianzhong. The third is Chen Banding, who paints flowers and landscapes."
6 1933 Laurence Binyon opened the exhibition of Vojetch Chytil in London with a speech : the importance of art as the key to understand a distant foreign country, pointing out that one could now read translations of a selection of books on Chinese art in the English language. Summary in : East London observer ; 22 May (1933).

Bibliography (2)

# Year Bibliographical Data Type / Abbreviation Linked Data
1 1920 Chytil, Vojtech. Exhibition of Artists' Association : Japanese and Chinese contemporary art : Catalogue. (Prague : Municial House, 1920). [Enthält buddhistische Kunst aus Tibet und der Mongolei, chinesische Teppiche, moderne japanische Malerei, Holzschnitte]. Publication / Exh12
2 1989 Chytil, Vojtech. Sbirka Vojtecha Chytila : Cina, Japonsko, Tibet : Katalog vystavy, Brno 24. brezna - 14. kvetna 1989. (Brno : Dum umeni mesta Brna, 1989). Publication / Exh11

Secondary Literature (2)

# Year Bibliographical Data Type / Abbreviation Linked Data
1 1934 Professor Chytil's collection of modern Chinese art : 14 June-28 July 1934. (London : Whitechapel Art Gallery, 1934). Publication / Exh7
2 2013 Capkova, Helena. Collecting modern Chinese art in the 1930s : the collection of Vojtech Chytil and the architect Bedrich Feuerstein. In : Journal of the history of collections ; vol. 25, no 3 (2013).
http://jhc.oxfordjournals.org/content/25/3/407.full.
http://jhc.oxfordjournals.org/content/25/3/407.full.pdf+html.
Publication / Cap1
  • Source: Chytil, Vojtech. Exhibition of Artists' Association : Japanese and Chinese contemporary art : Catalogue. (Prague : Municial House, 1920). [Enthält buddhistische Kunst aus Tibet und der Mongolei, chinesische Teppiche, moderne japanische Malerei, Holzschnitte]. (Exh12, Publication)
  • Source: Exhibition of contemporary Chinese art : 23 May-22 July 1933. (London : Whitechapel Art Gallery, 1933). [Die Ausstellung enthält 86 Gemälde von Qi Baishi]. (Exh6, Publication)
  • Source: Professor Chytil's collection of modern Chinese art : 14 June-28 July 1934. (London : Whitechapel Art Gallery, 1934). (Exh7, Publication)
  • Cited by: Asien-Orient-Institut Universität Zürich (AOI, Organisation)
  • Person: Capkova, Helena
  • Person: Feuerstein, Bedrich