Bader Scholarship

Dr. Alfred Bader Scholarship for doctoral students researching European art and architecture from the Middle Ages to the 20th century

The Dr. Alfred Bader scholarship is designed for young researches (under 40) of post-graduate programs and theory of art in accredited history and theory of art and architecture programs at universities in the Czech Republic. The scholarship has been provided since 2016 thanks to a grant from the Isabel & Alfred Bader Fund based on the project prepared by the IAH CAS in the Czech Republic in cooperation with the Czech Association of Art Historians.

Progress and final reports of the scholars are published in the Bulletin UHS.

The application deadline is at the beginning of each year (usually January 31). The exact application deadline will be announced on the IAH website. Each year the fund usually provides three scholarships worth 12,500 USD each. The candidates learn the results in the spring and if successful, the research takes place over the course of the following academic year. Prospective applicants should contact Eva Janáčová (janacova@udu.cas.cz) for more information.

In 2025/2026 the scholarship was granted to the following projects:

• Alena Havlíková (FF UP): Students of Adolf Loos‘s School and their American experiences 
  Loos's students, R. M. Schindler and Richard Neutra, went to the United States at their teacher's suggestion, with the aim of studying in the studio of F. L. Wright. The project will focus on their application of ideas learned from Loos's private school to American construction in the 1920s.

• Josef Holeček (FA ČVUT): Who built the modern Central European city?
  Inner Prague at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries experienced a dynamic transformation, shaped mainly by the middle class, which replaced older buildings with new tenement houses. The aim of the project is to provide archival evidence of whether the situation is comparable to cities such as Brussels, Munich or Leipzig, to which contemporary engineers refer.

• Jakub Straka (FF MU): Echoes across the Iron Curtain: Studies on Czechoslovak art of the 1960s
  The aim of the project is to map the cultural exchange between communist Czechoslovakia and Western countries in the 1960s and to describe and interpret works of art that were created under the influence of cross-border cooperation or that stimulated such cooperation.

Projects supported in the previous years:

• 2024/2025
  • Radoslav Ištok (FF UK): Czechoslovak participation in the São Paulo Biennial (1957-1979)
  • Petr Janáč (FF MU): The Architectural Odyssey of Vladimír Karfík: The Contribution of the architect's practice with F. L. Wright and Le Corbusier to his Zlín residential architecture
  • Eliška Petřeková (FF MU): Artists in the service of archaeology
• 2023/2024
  • Lucie Česká (FF UP Olomouc and ÚDU AV ČR Prague): Business strategies and presentation of art. Journey of Mikoláš Lehmann and one Stunning Painting through Europe 
  • Tereza Horáková (FF MU Brno): Remarkable Sculptures. Materiality of Early Modern Sacral Sculptures between Italy, Spain and Central Europe 
  • Pavol Múdry (FF MU Brno): Exhibition activities between Czechoslovakia and the GDR in 1945-1964
• 2022/2023
  • Tadeáš Kadlec (FF UK and ÚDU AV ČR Prague): Johann Peter Molitor (1702–1757) and the „Rococo“ in Bohemia and Central Europe
  • Zuzana Ragulová (FA VUT Brno): Brno Jewish Architects after 1918
  • Adéla Šenková (FF MU Brno): Graphics of the 18th century at the Viennese Academy: technological aspects and working methods
• 2021/2022
  • Denisa Hradilová (FF UP Olomouc): Coptic textiles from the Silesian Museum in an international context
  • Petra Lexová (FF MU Brno): Czech object sculpture in the years 1960–1980 and the Central European late modernism
  • Jan Zachariáš (FF UK Prague): Art history as a History of the senses. On the relationships between art history and the theory of perception (especially tactile perception) in the years 1880–1930
• 2020/2021
  • Tereza Johanidesová (FF UK Praha), The key ideas, concepts and interpretational strategies of the Czech marxist iconology
  • Michaela Hojdysz (FF MU Brno), Archduke Eugen of Austria: Reconstruction and protection of Bouzov Castle in the context of collecting and heritage conservation in Central Europe at the end of the 19th century
  • Mariana Placáková (FF UK Praha), Experience and emancipation. Feminist art in the period of state socialism
• 2019/2020
  • Patrik Farkaš, Life in the Still-Life. The Hungarian Painter Jakob Bogdani (1658–1724) at the British Royal Court
  • Jana Gazdagová, Ritual in the Church of the Holy Wisdom in Benevento at the Dawn of the Longobard Golden Age
  • Tomáš Kolich, The Picturesque Chaos. Graphic Screens in Cinema
• 2018/2019
  • Lenka Kerdová, Interwar Architecture by German Speaking Architects in Prague
  • Adéla Minaříková, Caspar Lehmann and the Beginnings of Cut Glass in Central Europe
  • Lenka Vrlíková, Between Rome and Alexandria. Reflection of European Art in Ethiopian Painting during the Rule of the Solomon Dynasty (1270–1468)
• 2017/2018
  • Jan Diensbier, Secular Late-Medieval Wall Painting in Central Europe
  • Irena Lehkoživová, Contemporary Architecture and Visual Art as a Source of Mutual Inspiration: Approaches in Theory and Practice
  • Kristýna Rendlová, Depicting Architecture in Osman Illustrated Manuscripts from the 16th Century
• 2016/2017
  • Hana Benešovská, The Art of Ancient Egypt from the Perspective of Art History: The History of Research, State of the Art and New Possibilities
  • Ondřej Hojda, The Image of Japanese Architecture in Europe, 1945–1970
  • Barbora Tóth (Holečková), The Influence of Bologna and Naples Artistic Centres on Art in the Czech and Hungarian Lands in the first Half of the 14th Century