Anna Jaegerová
Anna Jaegerová is a doctoral candidate in Art History at Masaryk University, where she specialises in nineteenth- and twentieth-century art and visual culture, with a particular interest in sculpture. Her research examines how visual media articulate processes of cultural exchange—especially between the United States and Europe—and contribute to the formation of individual and collective identities, alongside a broader interest in the methodological questions of art-historical analysis.
She has pursued these themes in projects addressing the career of Moravian-born sculptor Albín Polášek in early twentieth-century Chicago, fin-de-siècle Euro-American representations of Native Americans, and questions of embodiment in the sculptures of Czechoslovak artist Michal Blažek. Her dissertation investigates existentialist engagements with the human figure in postwar Czechoslovakia and the United States, analysing how artists used the body to navigate questions of subjecthood, postwar experience, and shifting social realities.
In addition to her research, she has taught early modern art, modern art, and historiography at Masaryk University, as well as modern art at Mendel University in Brno. She also works as a translator, primarily for the National Gallery in Prague.