English Translation

2 14 for architects, painters and sculptors, who once again filled the life of this city with their artistry and their joy of being, and thus created the aura, whose soft touch we still feel today in some narrow streets and quiet places. However, all the learners devoted to art also pilgrimaged to Prague. Pupils, students and young masters sought to achieve the highest level of education in their art. The wave of German art life, which begins with the age of enlightenment at the end of the 18th century from Munich, Düsseldorf, Vienna and the German artists' colony in Rome, also reaches Prague. In the year l8oo a German art school, the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, is opened at the instigation of the 1 796 founded society of patriotic art friends by imperial decree. It receives in the Klementinum quarter with a painting and graphic arts class, l806 already extended by a landscape school. Until l886 the academy preserves its purely German character. In this year, the state parliament, which is under Czech sovereignty, is linking the granting of money to the condition that from now on the same