Art in the Office

Lou is a collector of art, antique maps of Bohemia and Moravia and Pre-Columbian South and Central American artifacts. Some of his collection of over 800 unique maps and engravings dating back to the 15th century and artifacts as old as 3,000 years are on display at his office.

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Untitled, Young Dancer

Acrylic on canvas. Artist Keegan Starlight. Painted in 2016

Decorated Mapuche Stone Bowl

Pre-Columbian, northern Chile or Argentina, Mapuche people, ca. 1500 CE.

Dancing Bear

Inuit Carving “Dancing Bear”

Oldest realistic view of Prague

Oldest realistic view of Prague known to exist from Hartmann Schedel’s 1493 Nuremberg Chronicle. Woodcut engraving printed on paper

A copper engraving of Prague

A copper engraving of Prague from the famous Civitates Orbis Terrarum (Cities of the known world) in six volumes published by Georg Braun and Franz Hogenberg in Cologne Germany between 1588 and 1618

Chavin Stone Mace Heads

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Chaviv, ca. 900 to 500 BCE.

Map of Bohemia published in 1570

A map of Bohemia included in his atlas Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (Theatre of the World which is considered the first modern Atlas) by Dutch cartographer Abraham Ortelius in 1570.

Maya Pottery Bowl Skull in Tondo, Kill Hole

Pre-Columbian, Late Classic Maya, ca. 550 to 900CE.

Nazca Pottery Keros – Snakes and Underworld Felines

Pre-Columbian, Peru, Nazca culture, probably Phase 6 or 7, ca. 600 BCE to 800 CE (Feline) and 250 BCE to 125 CE (Snakes).

Kingdom of Bohemia published in 1545

Upside-down map (South on the top and North on the bottom) of the Kingdom of Bohemia published in 1545 by the famous German cartographer Sebastian Munster.