2024-06-15 06:13:32
Sisters Nikole and Silvie Stava may very well be described as fashionable fort women, besides that they do not have blue blood. Their household got here to the property in Bechyn by a fateful accident, once they met Alfons Paar, the long run restitutor of the fort, in emigration. The daddy of the household concluded a enterprise with him, and the Bechyně fort grew to become the property of his firm within the Nineties. It’s now owned by his daughters.
“It was all the time clear to us that in the future we might take over the household enterprise. My sister and I divided it in order that she takes care of 5 thousand hectares of forests, timber and searching. I, however, handle the fort, tourism, our lodges, the golf course and a household artwork assortment,” says a girl with an entrepreneurial spirit and a aptitude for artwork, who quickly after school grew to become the top of the primary Prague, then Central European department of Christie’s public sale home.
He now makes use of his expertise from Europe on the fort, the place he has about 5 thousand sq. meters out there for exhibitions. Yearly he begins a brand new one and for the final two seasons he cooperates with the Italian Continua Gallery. “My mother and father and I went to galleries as youngsters. It was then pure for me to dedicate myself to artwork professionally. After I fell in love within the Czech Republic and my sister and I took over the household enterprise, I began the custom of a world artwork season. This yr the theme is freedom,” she says curator and girl of the fort, who lives along with her household within the Bechyň property with foundations from the ninth century.
“My sister and her household additionally stay right here, and it’s stated that it’s haunted. Our kids additionally say so. It’s a former Rožmberk residence, so in accordance with legends, a white girl and a headless knight ought to stay right here with us. I’ve not seen them but.” laughs the trendy noblewoman. However there are many fairytale characters on the fort. Because of the exhibition, which is able to final till September, the park consists of, for instance, a wierd pilgrim on horseback by the Belgian artist Hans Opa de Beeck or Visák by David Černý.