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In
1903 – 1904 the painter, illustrator and book designer
Zdenka Braunerová built
her
studio next to the Brauner
Mill, to a design inspired by English country cottages.
A large window
provided light for her roomy studio, and adjacent to it was a small
sitting room with a fireplace, and above it an attic room which was
open to the
studio. The artist filled the interior with her own paintings,
as well as furniture,
antiques, embroidery, ceramics and painted
glassware, creating a unique setting
where her many friends, important
figures in Czech and European culture and the
arts, would come to visit.
At the end of the 1970s the Museum of Central Bohemia
bought the building,
and an extensive reconstruction project, hastened by the
damage the
building suffered during the 2002 floods, restored the studio’s original
appearance. The period interior was recreated from written and
pictorial
documentation, making use of paintings and objects from the
artist’s estate and
the museum’s collections. The reconstruction of Zdenka
Braunerová’s studio and
the permanent exhibition on her life and work
received the
Gloria Musaealis award
for Museum Event of the Year 2005. |
