After decades in exile, a Hollar masterpiece returns to Edvard Beneš’s home

Photo: Eva Dubská Petrová, Czech Radio

A 17th-century engraving by Wenceslas Hollar has returned to the Beneš Villa in Sezimovo Ústí after spending decades with relatives of the Czechoslovak President in the United States. For the family, the donation is not only the return of a work of art, but also a symbolic act of remembrance, reconciliation and homecoming.

For decades, the engraving quietly hung on the walls of a family home in the United States.

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Author: Vít Pohanka