The Langhans Prague Foundation
At the initiative of the Meisner family, led by Langhans’s great-granddaughter, the Langhans Prague Foundation (Nadace Langhans Praha) was established. Its mission is to preserve the archive of the Langhans studio and make it accessible to the general public. The negatives became part of the property of the Langhans Prague Foundation, thus guaranteeing that the archive will be preserved intact for future generations. The Foundation was established on 30 April 2003. The chairman of the Board of Trustees is Zuzana Meisnerová-Wismer, the great granddaughter of Jan Langhans.
Official name and address:
NADACE LANGHANS PRAHA
Vodičkova 37
110 00 Praha 1
Registration no.: 267 79 056
Registered 30 April 2003
Bank details:
Account number: 51-0685310297/0100 (Komerční banka)
IBAN: CZ02 0100 0000 5106 8531 0297.
An excerpt from the State Registry of Foundations:
The Mission and Aims of the Langhans Prague Foundation
The purpose of the Foundation is to support, carry on, and expand the idea of the ‘Gallery of Eminent People’ – the archive of portraits of famous and important people, who were photographed in the Langhans studio at Vodičkova 37, Prague, from 1880 to 1948. To achieve this aim the rooms of the former Langhans studio are to be opened to the public for cultural activities related to the work of Jan Langhans and to carry on the tradition of portrait photography in a contemporary way, as the picture of man depicted in art, primarily in photographs. The aim of the Langhans Prague Foundation is to collaborate with acknowledged educational institutions of photography to search for young talent and support it, and to establish and maintain contact with similarly orientated institutions around the world by organizing exhibitions, providing platforms for carrying on dialogue in the area of photography, and by creating a collection of portraits of important people, which will follow on from Langhans’s original ‘Gallery of Eminent People’.