Mgr. Hynek Látal, Ph.D.

EDUCATION

MASARYK UNIVERSITY BRNO, Ph.D., Art History, 2010

Speciality in Late Medieval Architecture. Dissertation: „Transformace klenebních figurací v širším okruhu podunajské pozdně gotické architektury“ [Transformations of the Vault Designs in the Late Gothic Architecture in the Region of the Danube Lands]

MASARYK UNIVERSITY BRNO, Mgr., Art History and German Language and Literature, 2003

Speciality in Late Medieval Architecture. Thesis: „Pozdně gotické kostely na rožmberském panství 1480 – 1520“ [Late Gothic Churches on the Rosenberg Domain 1480 – 1520]

Speciality in German Literature. Thesis: „Hofmannsthals Jedermann im Kontext. Der Tod in den geschichtlichen und kunstgeschichtlichen Beziehungen“ [Hofmannsthal´s Everyman in Context. The Death in Historical and Art Historical Relations]

EMPLOYMENT

2003 – present UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA, České Budějovice

since 2016:        Department of Art History, Institute of Art and Culture Studies, Faculty of the Arts, Assistant Professor

2006 – 2016:     Department of Aesthetics and Art History/ Department of Art History, Faculty of the Arts, Assistant Professor, Department Secretary

2003 – 2006:     Institute of History, Lecturer of Art History

2014 – 2020      SOUTH BOHEMIAN GALLERY, České Budějovice/Hluboká nad Vltavou

2016 - 2020:      Curator of the Permanent Exhibition Intersurveys. The Collection of the South Bohemian Gallery

since 2014:       External Curator of Old Masters Collection

2016                  UNIVERSITY SALZBURG, Salzburg (AT), Department of Art History, Institute of Art, Music and Dance Studies, External Lecturer of Art History, March – August

2002 – 2004      EPISCOPAL GYMNASIUM OF J. N. NEUMANN, České Budějovice, External Teacher of Art History in German Language

FELLOWSHIPS

Universität Augsburg, Philologisch-Historische Fakultät, Forschungs- und Kooperationszentrum FORUMOST, Institutspartnerschaft Augsburg – Budweis (DAAD), Guest Researcher, May 27 – June 1, 2019 and October 18 – 25, 2019, Augsburg, Germany

Universität Leipzig, Geisteswissenschaftliches Zentrum Geschichte und Kultur Ostmitteleuropas, Project „Höfe des Klerus“ [Courts of the Clergy] Guest Researcher, July 14 – 20, 2014, Leipzig, Germany

Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Bibliotheca Hertziana, Membership on the Study Course „Gotische Architekur in Italien und ihre Ausstattung. Mit einem Exkurs zur Frage Borromini und die Gotik“ [Gothic Architecture in Italy and its Equipment. With an Digression to the Problems of Borromini and Gothic], led by Prof. Peter Kurmann, October 4 – 13, 2007, Rome, Italy

Technische Universität München, Department of Architecture, Chair of Theory and History of Architecture, Art and Design, DAAD Fellowship (supervisor Dr. Hans Lange), September 10 – Novemeber 29 2004, Munich, Germany

University of Vienna, Faculty of Historical and Cultural Studies, Department of Art History, ÖAD Fellowship (supervisor Prof. Hellmut Lorenz), March 4 – June 22, 2002, Vienna, Austria

see the Czech version for printed publications

INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC LECTURES AND CONFERENCE PAPERS (last 5 years, selection)

„Die Persönlichkeit des Baumeisters der Spätgotik – viele offene Fragen“ [The Personality of the Late Gothic Builder – Many open Questions], Lehrstuhl für Kunstgeschichte, Forschungs- und Kooperationszentrum FORUMOST, Universität Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany, October 23, 2019

„Das Jüngste Gericht aus Rosenberg. Neue Erkenntnisse zu einer spätmittelalterlichen Tafel“ [The Judgement Day from Rosenberg. New Findings to the Late Medieval Panel], Abteilung Kunstgeschichte, Fachbereich Kunst-, Musik- und Tanzwissenschaft, Gesselschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Universität Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria, May 15, 2018

„Expresivní tendence v sakrální architektuře kolem roku 1500 na příkladu jižních Čech“ [Expressive Tendencies in the Sacral Architecture around 1500 on the Example of South Bohemia], Collegium historiae artium, Institute of Art History, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, CZ, March 8, 2017

„Morality and loyalty exempla on the facade of the town hall in České Budějovice“, Faces of the Community: Agency and Meaning in Urban Visual Communication, Central Europe 1400 – 1700, Faculty of Arts, Univeristy of South Bohemia, České Budějovice, CZ, November 12 – 14, 2015

„Laboratorium der Innovationen. Sakrale Architektur der Spätgotik in Südböhmen“ [Innovation Laboratories. Late Gothic Sacral Architecture in South Bohemia], Lehrstuhl für Restaurierung, Kunsttechnologie und Konservierungswissenschaft, Fakultät für Architektur, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany, June 9, 2015