Abstract
The study examines the problematic nature of expressionism in Bohemia, identifies many entrenched ideas and difficult aspects associated with expressionism in Czech art history and attempts to track the artistic tendencies traditionally linked with the term expressionism in Bohemia in both their period and subsequent contexts. The text focuses on artistic, cultural, and social events in two centres, Prague and Brno.
Emphasis is placed on exhibition policy, art magazines, and the establishment of contacts both within the country and abroad within the framework of groups of artists and individuals. The traditional deployment of the terms expressionism and cubo-expressionism, inextricably bound up with a stylistic base that is difficult to define, and the formal manifestations of such artworks is subjected to more detailed investigation and criticism.