Information
Member of CODART since 1998
Areas of specialization
- 15th- and 16th-century German, Austrian, and Netherlandish painting and sculpture
- Rudolfine and 17th-century Flemish painting (most notably Roelant Savery)
- The relationship and art exchange between Netherlandish and German art, and the art produced in the Lands of the Bohemian Crown
Exhibitions curated since 1999
Selected publications
2014
‘Fascinated by Dürer: Dirck de Quade van Ravesteyn paints Madonna and Child with Music-Making Angels’
Olga Kotková
Article in Studia Rudolphina, 2014, pp. 123-128
The National Gallery in Prague. German, Austrian, French, Hungarian and Netherlandish Sculpture 1200-1550. Illustrated Summary Catalogue II/1
Olga Kotková
Praha 2014
2013
‘Savery’s Paintings in the Inventories of Prague Castle’
Olga Kotková
Article in Studia Rudolphina 12-13, 2013, pp.134-145
2012
“Where did Maerten van Heemskerck create his painting ‘Venus and Cupid in Vulcan´s Forge’?”, in: György E. Szöney – Csaba Maczelka (ed.), Centers and Peripheries in European Renaissance Culture, Szeged 2012, pp. 231-238.
Roelandt Savery. Malíř ve službách císaře Rudolfa II. / A Painter in the Services of Emperor Rudolf II
Olga Kotková
Prague and Kortrijk (Národní galerie v Praze and Broelmuseum) 2010
Roelandt Savery aan het keizerliche hof in Praag
Edited by Isabelle De Jaegere
Essay in Roelandt Savery 1576-1639
Prague and Kortrijk (Národní galerie v Praze and Broelmuseum) 2010
2009
‘Adam Pokorný, Technological research into the Painting, St Luke Drawing the Virgin, by Jan Gossaert, called Mabuse’
Article in Bulletin of the National Gallery in Prague XVIII-XIX, 2008-2009, pp. 31-41
Mistrovská díla z kolowratské obrazárny v Rychnově nad Kněžnou / Masterpieces of the Kolowrat Picture Gallery in Rychnov nad Kněžnou
Olga Kotková
Prague (Národní galerie v Praze), 2009
2008
‘Paintings of the 16th Century Netherlandish Masters. Slovak Art Collection‘
Olga Kotková and Ingrid Ciulisová
Review in, Umění 56, 2008, pp. 154-156
2007
‘Rubens and Flanders’
Essay in Flemish Paintings of the 17th Century from the National Gallery in Prague
Tokyo 2007, pp. 9-19
2006
‘A new Investigation of the Venus and Cupid in Vulcan´s Forge by Maerten van Heemskerck’
Olga Kotková
Article La peinture ancienne et ses procédés XI. Colloque XV, pp. 189-195
Edited by Hélène Verougstraete and Jacqueline Couvert
Leuven and Paris (Dudley) 2006
2004
‘Bonifatius in der Darstellung von Bloemaert und Colaert. Die Polarität ihrer Abbildung in der nordniederländischen Kunst des 17. Jahrhundert‘
Olga Kotková
Article in Bonifatius. Vom Angelsächsischen Missionar zum Apostel der Deutschen, pp. 203-218
Edited by Michael Imhof and Gregor K. Stasch
Petersberg 2004
2003
‘Paintings as Cultural and Historical Documents: A Discussion of Old Netherlandish Portraits from the Former Waldstein Collection’
Olga Kotková
Article in Acta Universitatis Palackianae Olomucensis 2003, pp. 83-91
2001
‘Portrait of a Musician by a Netherlandish painter of the 1550s. An interdisciplinary approach’
Olga Kotková
Article in Le dessin sous-jacent et la technologie dans la peinture. La Peinture et le laboratoire, Colloque XIII, pp. 77-81
Edited by Hélène Verougstraete and Roger Van Schoute
Leuven 2001
‘Paintings of the Boutsian Circle at the National Gallery in Prague’
Olga Kotková
Article in Bouts Studies. Proceeding of the International Colloquium, pp. 111-123
Edited by Bert Cardon, Maurits Smeyers, Hélène Verougstraete and Roger Van Schoute Leuven and Paris (Sterling) 2001
1999
‘Joos van Cleve´s Triptych with the Adoration of the Magi. An Example of Workshop Practice’
Olga Kotková
Article in Le dessin sous-jacent et la technologie dans la peinture. La Peinture dans les Pays-Bas au 16e siècle. Colloque XII, pp. 87-97
Edited by Hélène Verougstraete and Roger Van Schoute
Leuven 1999
Netherlandish painting, 1480-1600: illustrated summary catalogue I/1
Olga Kotková
Collection catalogue
Prague (National Gallery) 1999
ISBN 80-7035-178-0
1997
”The Prague Ecce Homo: an early work by Juan de Flandes”
Olga Kotková
Paper in Le dessin sous-jacent et la technologie dans la peinture 11 (1997), pp. 185-92
1996
Hieronymus Bosch-follower: Christ among the doctors
Olga Kotková
Catalogue of an exhibition held in 1996 in Prague (National Gallery)
“Hieronymus Bosch, následovník: dvanáctilety jezís v chrámu: obraz po zrestaurování”
Olga Kotková
Essay in: Malé katalogy starého umení, exhib. cat. Prague (National Gallery) 1996, nr. 2.