English Translation

17 copy Report on 315/41 Subject: Otto Kletzl: "Die deutsche Kunst in Böhmen und Mähren", Deutscher Kunstverlag, Bln. According to the design principles of the German art publishing house, the outer presentation of the book is to be marked as very good and in the envelope design as exceptionally effective. The part of the picture is partly very good, but partly in the arrangement of the pictures and also in the selection of some excerpts as needing improvement. The book represents the type of books accompanied by stronger textual influences, as the Deutsche Kunstverlag has published in an exceptionally meritorious way since the years before. As a rule, however, these works by the Deutsches Kunstverlag are purely urban books, while the present work tries to contain several art landscapes in its framework. After Josef Neuwirth's Sudetendeutsche Kunstgeschichte (Verlag Jo-hannes Stauder, Kassel) the attempt is now made to give an overall representation of art in the Bohemian-Moravian space with much better pictorial material. In the picture section, many works of art are presented for the first time in good illustrations. The accompanying part of the text contains an extract from German and partly Czech art historical literature on the territory of Bohemia and Moravia. Complaints: Despite these positive features of the book, however, there are several shortcomings in detailed work, which can be largely concluded by fleeting works in some parts. In the overall appreciation of the various forms of visual art, one gets the impression that here the architecture was primarily taken into account - the author was originally an architect - and that the areas of sculpture, and in particular painting, which are so extremely important for the overall picture of Bohemian Moravian art districts