Anna-Marie Kroupova, BA MA

Anna-Marie Kroupova, BA MA

University assistant, prae-doc

Anna-Marie Kroupová is an art historian specializing in transnational and cross-cultural exchanges, immaterial and material heritage, representation, and political aspects of art. She holds an MA in Art History, where she received the Sir Ernst Gombrich Talent Award for the best MA thesis in 2021. In her MA dissertation, she uses the example of the Czech modernist group Mánes in the early twentieth century to highlight the close relationship between the rise of Czech modernist art movements and the emergence of Czech nationalism in the years leading up to the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

Anna-Marie's PhD project explores how visual media shaped national identities and representations in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries using the example of Sokol, an internationally successful Czech nationalist athletic association with strong ties to the art scene. She aims to trace transnational transfers of immaterial and material cultural heritage and how political and nationalist agendas interacted with different local socio-cultural conditions in global contexts during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries (e.g. North and South America, Russia, France).

She also works as Research Associate at the Belvedere, Vienna, where she coordinates the newly founded Belvedere Research Journal, an international, peer-reviewed, open-access e-journal dedicated to Austrian art history. She collaborated on research projects and exhibitions at major European and American cultural institutions, including MoMA, New York; Belvedere, Vienna; MAK, Vienna; and the National Gallery in Prague.