„...VONKONCOM VŽDY JE PEKNÉ ZNOVU ZAČÍNAŤ...“ PEDAGOGICKÉ PÔSOBENIE ALŽBETY GÜNTHEROVEJ-MAYEROVEJ (1905 – 1973) NA UNIVERZITE KOMENSKÉHO V BRATISLAVE

This article is an in-depth probe into A. Güntherová-Mayerová’s pedagogical activities at the Comenius University in Bratislava, which affected an entire generation of our art historians. It based on the summarizing and verifying of known, but especially new information acquired through the study of various archive sources. It strives to provide answers to questions arising from our existing knowledge about the aforementioned issues starting with the clarification of the true extent of her work since the second half of the 1930s until 1961. The character and extent of her teaching is presented against the historical background of our university instruction of art history. Emphasis is placed on the crucial period of her university work in the socialist era of the Czechoslovak Republic in the1950s with the significant professionalization of education in the discipline, which we have partly inherited today, accompanied by its strong political deformation. Unfortunately, her forced dismissal from the university in 1961 meant the loss of the universal expert with vision, ability and a team capable of building a strong art-historical scientific-educational institute.