DŮM UMĚNÍ The House of Arts – the Palais Slavikov – is situated in one of the most beautiful Renaissance buildings of the town. The first historically recorded owner of the house in 1363 was a burgher and brewer named Simon. His house in the square was then smaller than nowadays but as it was proved from the results of the research by Otto Bouda, the area of the land plot of the house was the same as nowadays. Most probably, the area was taken up by Simon’s brewery, then the largest one in the town and more profitable than Hostan’s brewery in Dolní Česká street. Between 1397 and 1406 the house was owned by Haymann of Jaroměřice. At that time alcohol was probably already brewed outside the city gates due to fire protection reasons. After the Hussite wars, in the period of George of Poděbrady, Matthew Corvinus and the Jagiellonians, there were many various owners and crafts in the house, we can mention for example the tailor Andreas Schneider. A large Renaissance reconstruction and extension of the house in the course of only one (!) year 1549 are connected with the burgher family named “auf der Leiten”. Ambrose from the second generation of the family used the money saved for this purpose and a loan of 200 sixties of grosches. They also extended the wine cellar. After Simon, Abrose’s son, the house was bought by Hans Lëmermaÿer in 1560 who had the rear wing built in the direction to Dolní Česká street and interconnected it with a beautiful arcade courtyard. Above the entrance to the gallery there is a carved family sign of the Lëmermaÿer family – two lambs with flags. This family owned the house for more than fifty years. During the Thirty Years’ War (in 1635) the house was bought by the Moravian land scribe Tobias Allman, knight of Almstein, a descendent of an important burgher family from Znojmo. His wife was Justina, née Herr, a daughter of the Znojmo vogt and lord of Jaroslavice and Hrušovany. In 1665 Tobias sold the house to Henry Slavíkovec of Slavikov. This old noble family from Bohemia owned two more houses in Znojmo in Upper and Lower Squares. However, in 1680 Henry died childless. The place then became the property of the town councillor John Francis Exel and was inherited by his daughter Francisca married to the imperial colonel Everhard de Blois. Their children sold the house in 1764 to the master baker Maximilian Josef Bögl. And the baker trade remained in this house until World War II. Starting from the 19th century, the palace was also used as a tenement house with the total of eight flats. From 1804 it was owned by the Bousek family and from 1852 by the Widl family. The heir Marie Widl married in 1883 to the chemist Johann Pistauer so the baker’s shop on the ground floor (nowadays the vestibule and café) was complemented with a chemist’s (nowadays the lecture hall) and a tiny newsagent’s. In 1936 the house was inherited by underage Elizabeth Dissmann but she lost it at the age of twenty on the basis of Beneš decrees. In 1950 the house is transferred from the national administration under the communal administration. At the same time, the design for the town gallery started to be prepared. After a lot of difficulties it was completed in 1961. The building was fully opened in 1967. The last reconstruction was carried out between 1986 and 1990. Nowadays the palace is used for exhibition purposes of the South Moravian Museum. A representative selection from the abundant collections of the South Moravian Museum is represented by the permanent exhibition “Old Art of the Znojmo Region” on the second floor and “Medal maker Jan Tomáš Fischer” and “Coins of the Lands of Bohemian Crown” on the first floor. The exhibition halls on the first floor are intended mainly for the contemporary art. On the ground floor there is a multipurpose hall for occasional exhibitions, lectures and conferences. In the entrance hall ("maashouse”) there is a shop selling museum publications and souvenirs. MEDIEVAL ART IN ZNOJMO REGION The permanent exhibition of the sacral Gothic and Baroque art from the collections of the South Moravian Museum in Znojmo is a representative selection of the works by sculptors and artists working in this area from the late Přemyslids to the Enlightenment in the 18th century. It gives a picture of the art as it accompanied the religious history in this part of Moravia which bears ineffaceable marks of the ruling families of Přemyslids, Luxembourgs, Jagiellonians and Hapsburgs who together with church institutions employed many important artists for the decorating of interiors and exteriors of the local churches and monasteries of the Premonstratensians, Dominicans, the Knights of the Cross, Minorites and Poor Clares, Franciscans, Capuchins and Jesuits. The first part of the exhibition includes collections from the Gothic era. The most valuable exhibit is a wooden sculpture of the Znojmo Madonna which was made in the 1330s by the Master of the Michle Madonna. Its creation is connected with the court of the queen Elizabeth Richeza. The oldest item on display is the head of a queen, Libuše of Znojmo, from the late 13th century. A set of Gothic Madonnas created from the mid 14th to mid 16th centuries characterizes the local favourable artistic background influenced by the Danube region in many cases. Also the second part devoted to Baroque art is focused on sculptures. Extraordinary works include works by an outstanding sculptor of the 1st half of the 18th century Georg Anton Heinz and by Josef Leonard Weber participating in decorations of churches in the whole of South Western Moravia. Late Baroque sculpture is represented with plastic art by Josef Winterhalder senior. The collection of paintings from the Baroque era is represented by the altar painting by the author of the Flemish origin Jan de Herdt, as well as the paintings by Znojmo native Jan Michal Fiseé, Brno artists Josef Ignác Havelka and František Vavřinec Korompay. Two portraits of church dignitaries are works by Josef Winterhalder junior, a student and later fellow worker of Franz Anton Maulbertsch. JAN TOMÁŠ FISCHER – MEDAL MAKING The exhibition devoted to the medal maker Jan Tomáš Fischer (born on 25 November 1912 in Znojmo and died on 7 March 1957 in Znojmo) is situated in the former family chapel of the town palace, now called the House of Arts of the South Moravian Museum. It presents the production of this native of Znojmo who became a permanent part of the cultural awareness of his native as well as the history of modern post-war medals. The theme of the displayed medals of J. T. Fischer, a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague from professor Otakar Španiel (1938 - 1946), is mostly connected with Znojmo. Outstanding examples are stamped medals commemorating the 500th anniversary of the town hall tower construction (1948) and the completed renovation of the Romanesque castle chapel of Virgin Mary and St Catherine in Znojmo (1949), as well as the medal commemorating the 250th anniversary of birth of Prokop Diviš, the inventor of the lighting conductor (1948) and the 200th anniversary of his invention (1954). From cast portrait medals, there are for example portraits of the actress Irena Kačírková, director of the Znojmo Museum, V. Drlík, director of the National Museum in Prague, G. Skalský, professor V. V. Štech and his own family members. There are also medals of Jaroslav Seifert (1957) the back of which remained unfinished by J. T. Fischer. As a replacement of the theme intended by the author, an inscription composed of the words by the poet Jaroslav Seifert was placed on the reverse side. ZE SBÍRKY JOSEFA KVĚTONĚ Výstavní síň v 1. patře Numismatická expozice Jihomoravského muzea ve Znojmě byla zpřístupněna v září 2007 a vhodně navazuje na stálou expozici medailí Jana Tomáše Fischera. Unikátní systematickou sbírku českých mincí a medailí shromáždil Josef Květoň (1828–1905). Rodák z Uhřinova u Velkého Meziříčí absolvoval učitelský ústav v Telči a Jihlavě. V roce 1856 již jako zkušený pedagog nastoupil do Ústavu hluchoněmých v Praze. Předmětem odborného zájmu se mu stala numismatika. V 80. letech 19. století byl jedním ze zakládajících členů prvního českého numismatického kroužku v Praze. Poslední roky svého života (1897–1905) strávil Josef Květoň s manželkou v rodině své dcery Boženy ve Znojmě. Je pochován na znojemském hřbitově. O významu Květoňovy numismatické kolekce svědčí skutečnost, že v roce 1941 o ni projevilo zájem Národní muzeum v Praze. Nakonec ji však získalo v roce 1948 Jihomoravské muzeum ve Znojmě jako velkorysý dar a výraz patriotismu od Květoňovy dcery Boženy Velebové ze Znojma. Z celkového počtu 1137 artefaktů Květoňovy sbírky je v expozici Domu umění vystaveno 823 kusů. Dokumentují vývoj české měny od období Keltů přes denárovou, grošovou a tolarovou měnu, včetně historických medailí a početních peněz (jetonů). Na doprovodných 12 textových a obrazových panelech se návštěvník seznámí s nejvýznamnějšími historickými mezníky ve vývoji české měny. Vhodným katalogem k expozici je stejnojmenná knižní publikace z roku 2004, kterou lze zakoupit na pokladně Domu umění. VÝSTAVY Dům umění pravidelně několikrát do roka hostí zajímavé sezónní umělecké výstavy. Jejich aktuální přehled návštěvník najdete na webových stránkách www.muzeumznojmo.cz. Dům umění Dům umění Dům umění Dům umění Dům umění HOUSE OF ARTS The House of Arts is housed in one of the city's most beautiful Renaissance palaces, built on the site of two older Gothic houses in the third quarter of the 16th century. Dům umění, Masarykovo náměstí 11, Znojmo Open all year round Tue – Sat | 9.00–17.00 Sun | 14.00–17.00. Lunch break always from 11.30 to12.00 Tel: +420 515 226 529