Novobaroko a česká sochařská generace devadesátých let 19. století

Second half of the 19th century saw a number of national attempts to revise the Baroque values. Czech Neo-Baroque sculpture represents a style-expressive tendency, which reflected this nationally motivated interest and at the same time became a response to the change of esthetic taste of the end of the century. The goal of this article is to introduce the generation of sculptures of 1890s who built on the works of Josef Václav Myslbek, František Bílek and Bohuslav Schnich and presented their Neo-Baroque pieces for public monument tenders or at Art Union exhibitions. Variable and unexplored Neo-Baroque, which can be found in pieces by many authors (Vilím Amort, Quido Kocián, Josef Strachovský, Stanislav Sucharda, Gustav Zoula etc.) helps to find the missing idealistic and stylistic links between key Czech sculptores whose work made way towards modern articulation of matter in the beginning of the 20th century.