Legal regulation and practice of export of artworks from Czechoslovakia during the period 1918-1945

Abstract

The paper deals with both the legal regulation of the export of artworks from Czechoslovakia in the period 1918-1945, as well as its actual functioning. The first part describes the rapid reaction of the Czechoslovak National Committee, which by Regulation No. 13/1918 Coll. prevented the export of all monuments from the territory of the new state.

This Regulation No. 13/1918 Coll. was subsequently applied throughout the so-called First Republic; it was replaced by the Second Republic measure of the Standing Committee of the National Assembly No. 255/1938 Coll. and the Protectorate Regulation on the Protection of Cultural Monuments. Special attention is also paid to the period practice of donations for export permit.

Keywords

• export of artworks
• monument protection
• donations for export permit
• Regulation No. 13/1918 Coll.
• Measures of the Standing Committee No. 255/1938 Coll.
• Regulation of the Reich Protector on the Protection of Cultural Monuments