Kateřina Kuthanová is an art historian specialising in the history of art and culture in the 19th century. In 2008, she completed her MA studies at Charles University with a thesis entitled Výtvarné umělkyně ve druhé polovině 19. století [Women Artists in the Second Half of the 19th Century]. Subsequently, she worked as sculpture curator in the 19th-century collection of the National Gallery in Prague, where she was author and curator of several exhibition projects (e.g., “Metamorphosis of Politics. Prague Monuments of the 19th Century”, 2013; “The Polemics of Miloš Jiránek”, 2011; “Jan Hus 1415–2015”). In 2016, she joined the NAKI research “Traces of Creation. The Heritage of the Great Sculptors of the First Half of the 20th Century” at the Institute for Art History of the Czech Academy of Sciences, as part of an international team investigating artwork within the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, “Sculpture in Central Europe”. She is the author or co-author of several publications and texts (e.g.: “Česko-německé výtvarnice v institucionálním zázemí přelomu 19. a 20. století”, [Bohemian-German Women Artists in the Institutional Framework of the Turn of the 19th and 20th Centuries], 2023; “Výtvarnice v souvislostech industriálního světa” [Women Artists in the Context of the Industrialized World], 2013; “Moderní galerie v reflexi národních identit” [The Modern Gallery and the Reflection of National Identities], 2015; “Národní pomníková tvorba Ladislava Šalouna” [The National Monument Work of Ladislav Šaloun], 2018). Since 2019, she has been a PhD candidate at the Department of Art History at UMPRUM, with the research theme of Czech and Bohemian-German women painters in the new reception of 19th century art history. Since 2024 she has been the head of the Museum of Lace in Vamberk. In the framework of the NAKI III grant project, her specific focus is women’s artistic and applied-artistic schooling.
