English Translation

12 - 2 - Minchen, Düsseldorf, Vienna and the German artists' colony in Rome, reach also Prague. In 1300, at the instigation of the society of patriotic art friends founded in 1796, an imperial decree opens a German art school, the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. In Klementinum Quartier, with a class of painters and graphic artists, it is already extended by a school of landscape. Up to l886, the Akedemic preserves its purely German character. In this year, the Czech-majority Landtag links the willingness of financial means to establish the equality of the Czech language from now on. The year 19l8 brings the Czechization of the Academy and its takeover of the Czechoslovak state. At this new institution only three German artists act as directors of the three German schools left on paper. In the year l926 the director of the graphic school will be the painter and graphic artist Prof. Heinrich Hönich. Through him, the only seeule preserves its German character. Despite the Czech rule, the Freemasonry and the Jews' invasion, he has not only maintained the institution entrusted to him, but has developed into a large amount of the achievements of his teachers and pupils, of which the exhibition, which will be opened here today, bears witness. Prof. Hönich was the only pillar of genuine German art in the space of the state which was united in Versailles in the most difficult political emergency. He was faithful to his attitude and his German mission, and he held the whole years of his work in Prague to a world of hostility. He stood up to all Jewish influences and drew his students in the German Simne. If today a tribe of German teachers and capable young artists