English Translation

8rL1 Speech by the Taste Secretary Frank at the opening of the 4/5/05-- Prof/Hönieh/Exhibition/ Prague/9. Y. 1941. Ljee 7om Cemmame^{2 Except for the happy day, this city is the image of its German past that is forated in stone and incorruptible. In particular, two epochs, since Prague was the metropolis of the German Empire, the l4th and l7th centuries, have shaped the face of this city. Romantic architecture and gothic art of the German Middle Ages, early and late Renaissance of modern times, Baroque and Rococo, the hands reach here to a dance of unique beauty, which together with the landscape's lavishly and enchantingly designed frame of nature can sound a symphony of the visual arts, as it probably only emerged once in German lands in such vastness and majesty, in such grace and simplicity and in such splendour and greatness of artistic will and skill. It is only self-evident that artists of all German Gaue have always taken more or less long stay in the walls of this city. German emperors and German princes, high nobility and rich bourgeoisie, well-stocked bishops and abbots created through their generation with their art orders the life possibilities for builders, painters and sculptors, who again filled the life of this city with their artistry and their joy of existence and thus created those Aera, whose quiet breath we still feel today in narrow streets and in quiet places. However, all those who were eager to learn from the Kvnst pilgrimage to Prague. Students, journeymen and young masters sought to achieve the highest level of training in their Kunet. The wave strike in the German Kunstlehen, which, with the age of the Enlightenment at the end of the 18th century, took place in Prague.