Mgr. Tomáš Valeš, Ph.D.
Department of Art-Historical Topography
phone: +420 604 488 481
e-mail: tvales@udu.cas.cz
Department of Art-Historical Topography
phone: +420 604 488 481
e-mail: tvales@udu.cas.cz
Researcher at the Department of Art-Historical Topography, Detached workplace Brno.
Tomáš Valeš studied art history at the Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University in Brno (Ph.D. 2013). Since 2008, he has been employed with the Department of Topography, Institute of Art History, Czech Academy of Sciences. As a researcher, he focuses on the art of the early modern era, mainly 17th and 18th-century painting, drawing and prints, connoisseurship, early-modern-era patronage, and art academies. Between 2013 and 2017, he was an external professor at the Department of Art History, Masaryk University in Brno, and is currently an Assistant Professor there, supervising theses and dissertations. Since 2020, he has been the head of the editorial board of the series Maturandum, published by the Centre for Early Medieval Studies at the Department of Art History, Masaryk University in Brno. In the summer of 2023, he was a visiting research fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
Tomáš Valeš, Maulbertsch und seine ersten Werke für die Wiener Akademie, in: Stella Rollig – Georg Lechner (eds.), Franz Anton Maulbertsch. 300 Jahre exzentrischer Barock, kat. výst., Wien 2024, s. 41–49.
Tomáš Valeš – Jan Galeta – Christian Drobe, Pozoruhodný příběh Břetislava Bartoše, Roudnice nad Labem 2024.
Tomáš Valeš, Franz Anton Maulbertsch, Jakob Matthias Schmutzer and the Allegory on the Edict of Toleration, 1785, Print Quarterly 39, 2022, s. 264-274.
Tomáš Valeš, Between Original and Reproduction: Jakob Matthias Schmutzer (1733–1811) as Reproductive Engraver, in: Ilaria Miarelli Mariani et al. (eds.), La storia dell’arte illustrata e la stampa di traduzione tra XVIII e XIX secolo, Roma 2022, s. 61–66.
Tomáš Valeš, Between Guild and Academy. Collections of Central European Painters as a Source of Artistic Progress or a Steady Livelihood?, in: Ana Diéguez – Ángel Rodríguez Rebollo (eds.), The Pictor Doctus, Between Knowledge and Workshop: Artists, Collections and Friendship in Europe, 1500-1900, Turnhout 2021, s. 159–180.
Tomáš Valeš, The Drawing Work of Johann Christoph Handke (1694–1774): New Observations, New Attributions, Umění LXX, 2022, s. 193-207.
Tomáš Valeš – Martin Deutsch, Jan Jiří Heinsch. Pražský Apelles ve službách Tovaryšstva Ježíšova, Roudnice nad Labem 2021.
Zuzana Macurová – Tomáš Valeš (eds.), Od objevu k interpretaci. Znalectví, sběratelství a ikonografie umění raného novověku, Brno 2019.
Tomáš Valeš, Traces Left by Peter Brandl in Moravia. Notes on the Links between Painting in Bohemia and Moravia, in: Andrea Steckerová (ed.), Petr Brandl 1668–1735. Studies, Prague 2018, pp. 89–101.
Tomáš Valeš – Michal Konečný – Lenka Kalábová – Petr Tomášek, Obrazy. Mistrovská díla ze sbírek Národního památkového ústavu, Kroměříž 2018.
Tomáš Valeš – Pavel Suchánek, Der Bildhauer Andreas Schweigl und die Sakralkunst in Mähren zur Zeit der josephinischen Reformen, Umění / Art LXIII, 2015, pp. 156–181.
Tomáš Valeš, Stylová východiska tvroby Josefa Sterna a brněnské malířství okolo 18. století, in: Michaela Šeferisová Loudová (ed.), Josef Stern 1716–1775, Olomouc 2015, pp. 13–23.
Tomáš Valeš, Příběhy slávy a zapomnění. Znojemští umělci, jejich díla a osudy na sklonku baroka, Brno 2014.
Tomáš Valeš, Michael Angelo Unterberger und seine Nachfolger im Dienst des böhmischen und mährischen Adels, Österreichische Zeitschrift für Kunst- und Denkmalpflege LXVII, 2013, pp. 174–183.
Tomáš Valeš, Znojmo and Its Surroundings: Local Center, Periphery, or Something Completely Different?, in: Ondřej Jakubec (ed.), Central European and American Perspectives on Visual Arts in early Modern Europe, Brno 2013, pp. 130–147.
Tomáš Valeš, „…in ducali ac celeberrima Ecclesia Lucensi...“ Salzburger Künstler im Dienst des Prämonstratenser Stifts in Louka/Klosterbruck bei Znaim, Barockberichte 59/60, 2012, pp.717–730.
Tomáš Valeš – Michal Konečný, Umělci a dvorní umělečtí řemeslníci ve valtických matrikách, Opuscula Historiae Artium 11, 2011, pp. 42–65.
Tomáš Valeš, Josef Winterhalder d. J. (1743–1807), Maulbertschs bester Schüler in Fresko, in: Lubomír Slavíček (ed.), Josef Winterhalder d. J. (1743 Vöhrenbach – 1807 Znojmo). Maulbertschs bester Schüler, Langenargen – Brno 2009, pp. 27–143.
Umělecké památky Moravy a Slezska 4 - co-author
Ecocritical Art History in Central Europe
Preparation of a monograph on the art academy in Vienna in the second half of the 18th century (working titel – How to forge a new art? Artists, Academies, and Enlightenment in the late 18th century Vienna)