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Meda Mladkova
Mladkova in 2014
Born
Marie Magdalena Franti?ka Sokolova

( 1919-09-08 ) 8 September 1919
Zakupy , Czechoslovakia
Died 3 May 2022 (2022-05-03) (aged 102)
Prague, Czech Republic
Occupation(s) Art collector and historian
Spouse Jan Viktor Mladek
Awards Medal of Merit
Artis Bohemiae Amicis Medal
Commander of the Order of the White Double Cross

Marie Magdalena Franti?ka " Meda " Mladkova ( nee Sokolova , 8 September 1919 ? 3 May 2022) was a Czech art collector. Her husband, Jan Viktor Mladek  [ cs ] (1911?1989), was an economist and a governor of the IMF . Having spent several years in exile, she returned to Czechoslovakia after the Velvet Revolution of 1989.

Early life [ edit ]

Marie Magdalena Franti?ka Sokolova was born on 8 September 1919 within the premises of the Zakupy castle, where her father was working as a brewer. [1] Her family later decided to move to Brandys nad Labem . [2] She moved to Switzerland in 1946 to study Economics in Geneva , where she earned her Ph.D. [3] Together with other exiles from Czechoslovakia, she published a magazine called Sou?asnost ( transl.  Present Time ). By February 1948, she decided not to return to Czechoslovakia. She consequently went to Paris , where she studied Art History at the Sorbonne and at L'Ecole du Louvre between 1955 and 1960. [4]

Exile [ edit ]

During her time in Paris, Mladkova founded the first Czechoslovak exile publishing company called Edition Sokolova . One of its first published titles was a volume of verse by Ivan Blatny, and the writings of Ferdinand Peroutka . [4] She also became acquainted with Jan Viktor Mladek, an economist and fellow emigrant. He oversaw the interim administration of Czechoslovakia's central bank in the aftermath of World War II , [5] and in 1945 became one of the first Governors of the International Monetary Fund . [4]

They eventually married and decided to settle permanently in Washington, D.C. in 1960. During their time in Washington, the couple built an important art collection. This included over 200 paintings by Franti?ek Kupka , [6] [7] as well as 240 productions by Ji?i Kola? and 17 sculptures by Otto Gutfreund . [6] The couple even sold their home for $950,000 in order to purchase two of Kupka's oil paintings , [8] one of which was Localization of Graphic Motifs II . She later donated this work to the National Gallery of Art in 1984. Mladkova also arranged a Kupka retrospective at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in 1975. [6]

Return to the Czech Republic [ edit ]

Sova's Mills in Prague
Meda Mladkova (middle), Martin Bursik and Kate?ina Jacques at Kampa (2009)

After the death of her husband in 1989, Mladkova returned to the Czech Republic. [8] She gave her art collection to the city of Prague, [7] and joined the Civic Forum . Later, she founded the Jan and Meda Mladek Foundation and decided to reconstruct the historical premises of Sova's Mills and use it as a location for the Museum Kampa . Museum Kampa became home to her and her husband's art collection, which she donated to the City of Prague. [2] [9] The Jan and Meda Mladek Foundation has in its care a collection of Central European Modern art, and artworks by Franti?ek Kupka and Otto Gutfreund . The price of the collection is today virtually inestimable. It consists of 215 studies, drawings and paintings, and ranks alongside the world's most comprehensive collections of its kind. [6] [10]

Mladkova was bestowed a state decoration by Vaclav Havel in 1999. [8] Thirteen years later, she was appointed a commander of the Ordre national du Merite , in recognition of her efforts as an art collector and philanthropist. [7] [8] She died on 3 May 2022, at the age of 102. [11]

References [ edit ]

  1. ^ s.r.o, World Media Partners. "Meda Mladkova ? 100th Birthday" . en.czech-unesco.org . Retrieved 5 February 2020 .
  2. ^ a b ?imek, Ji?i (2004). "Vyznamne osobnosti v historii Zakup". Povidani o Zakupech (2 ed.). Zakupy: M?sto Zakupy. p. 59. ISBN   80-239-4495-9 .
  3. ^ "Meda Mladkova: From Kupka to Kampa | Tema" . Lidovky.cz . 13 February 2012 . Retrieved 5 February 2020 .
  4. ^ a b c "Meda Mladek ? Museum Kampa" . Museum Kampa . Retrieved 5 February 2020 .
  5. ^ "Art collector and patron Meda Mladkova dies aged 102" . Radio Prague. 3 May 2022 . Retrieved 4 May 2022 .
  6. ^ a b c d Greenberger, Alex (3 May 2022). "Meda Mladkova, Leading Czech Collector Whose Passion for Art Ran Deep, Dies at 102" . ARTnews . Retrieved 4 May 2022 .
  7. ^ a b c "Czech art collector Meda Mladkova dies at 102" . France 24. Agence France-Presse. 3 May 2022 . Retrieved 4 May 2022 .
  8. ^ a b c d Janicek, Karel (3 May 2022). "Czech arts collector, patron Meda Mladkova dies at 102" . Associated Press News . Retrieved 4 May 2022 .
  9. ^ "About Jan and Meda Mladek | Museum Kampa ? moderni um?ni v centru Prahy" . Museum Kampa. Archived from the original on 31 May 2009 . Retrieved 19 August 2013 .
  10. ^ "The Jan and Meda Mladek Collection | Museum Kampa ? moderni um?ni v centru Prahy" . Museum Kampa. Archived from the original on 23 July 2009 . Retrieved 19 August 2013 .
  11. ^ "Ve v?ku 102 let zem?ela histori?ka um?ni Meda Mladkova | ?eskeNoviny.cz" . www.ceskenoviny.cz (in Czech) . Retrieved 3 May 2022 .

External links [ edit ]

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