We’ll delve into Czechoslovaquia’s modernism, the avant-garde at the beginning of the 20th century, specifically between 1895 and 1929.
Prague was known as Paris of the East, a place where wealthy industrial families developed beautiful architectural styles like Neo-Renaissance, Art Nouevau or Secession, Art Deco, Cubism, and Rondocubism. A Czech Belle Époque contextualized by the First World War, the national revival, the birth of the Czechoslovak Republic, and the inter-war period.

We’ll meet history’s best Czech painter, also known as the best Art Nouveau painter in Paris – we’ll visit the Alfons Mucha exhibition.

We’ll discover Czechoslovak Cubism and Rondocubism, a national style and original creation to the world.
We’ll indetify the characteristics of each of the avant-garde styles to fully understand the observed art.

It will be a fascinating journey to the early 20th century, we’ll visit the main cafés of the bourgeoisie as well as the Art Nouveau-Secession main train station.

A delectable trek through a time still touched by the difficulties and wounds from World War I.

The birth of Czechoslovakia as a powerful economic state, yet weak in the integration of different communities: Czech, German, Slovak, Hungarian, Ukrainian. A democracy threatened by the resurgence of wounded German sentiments from the First Word War.