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{{short description|Art gallery in Prague, Czech Republic}}
{{short description|Art gallery in Prague, Czech Republic}}
{{Infobox museum
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| name = National Gallery Prague
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| location = [[Prague]]
| location = [[Prague]]
| type = [[Art museum]]
| type = [[Art museum]]
| visitors = 711,928 (2018)<ref name="aktualne">{{cite web |title=Klesá návštěvnost Národní galerie, nebo ne? Ministr Staněk si protiřečí {{!}} Aktuálně.cz |url=https://magazin.aktualne.cz/kultura/umeni/narodni-galerie-navstevnost-stanek-ministerstvo-kultury-cssd/r~f5ecdfa066aa11e998d70cc47ab5f122/ |website=Aktuálně.cz |access-date=7 June 2019 |language=cs |date=24 April 2019}}</ref>
| visitors = 711,928 (2018)<ref name="aktualne">{{cite web |title=Klesá návštěvnost Národní galerie, nebo ne? Ministr Staněk si protiřečí {{!}} Aktuálně.cz |url=https://magazin.aktualne.cz/kultura/umeni/narodni-galerie-navstevnost-stanek-ministerstvo-kultury-cssd/r~f5ecdfa066aa11e998d70cc47ab5f122/ |website=Aktuálně.cz |access-date=7 June 2019 |language=cs |date=24 April 2019}}</ref>
| director = [[Alicja Knast]]
| director = Alicja Knast
| president =
| president =
| curator = Adam Budak
| curator = Adam Budak
| publictransit = [[Trams in Prague|Tram stop]]: Veletržní palác<br>{{rint|Prague|C}} [[Vltavská]] <br>[[File:Esko Praha logo.svg|20px]] [[Praha–Bubny railway station|Praha–Bubny]]
| publictransit = [[Trams in Prague|Tram stop]]: Veletržní palác<br>{{rint|Prague|C}} [[Vltavská]] <br>[[File:Esko Praha logo.svg|20px]] [[Praha–Bubny railway station|Praha–Bubny]]
| website = {{URL|http://www.ngprague.cz/en/|ngprague.cz}}
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The '''National Gallery Prague''' ({{lang-cz|Národní galerie Praha}}, '''NGP'''), formerly the '''National Gallery in Prague''' ({{lang|cs|Národní galerie v Praze}}), is a state-owned art gallery in [[Prague]], which manages the largest collection of art in the [[Czech Republic]] and presents masterpieces of Czech and international fine art in permanent and temporary exhibitions. The collections of the gallery are not housed in a single building, but are presented in a number of historic structures within the city of Prague, as well as other places. The largest of the gallery sites is the Trade Fair Palace (''Veletržní Palác''), which houses the National Gallery's collection of modern art. Other important exhibition spaces are located in the [[Convent of St. Agnes|Convent of St Agnes of Bohemia]], the [[Kinský Palace (Prague)|Kinský Palace]], the Salm Palace, the Schwarzenberg Palace, the Sternberg Palace, and the [[Wallenstein Palace|Wallenstein Riding School]]. Founded in 1796, it is one of the world's oldest public art galleries and one of the [[list of largest art museums in the world|largest]] museums in [[Central Europe]].
The '''National Gallery Prague''' ({{langx|cs|Národní galerie Praha}}, '''NGP'''), formerly the '''National Gallery in Prague''' ({{lang|cs|Národní galerie v Praze}}), is a state-owned art gallery in [[Prague]], which manages the largest collection of art in the [[Czech Republic]] and presents masterpieces of Czech and international fine art in permanent and temporary exhibitions. The collections of the gallery are not housed in a single building, but are presented in a number of historic structures within the city of Prague, as well as other places. The largest of the gallery sites is the [[Trade Fair Palace]], which houses the National Gallery's collection of modern art. Other important exhibition spaces are located in the [[Convent of St. Agnes|Convent of St Agnes of Bohemia]], the [[Kinský Palace (Prague)|Kinský Palace]], the [[Salm Palace]], the [[Schwarzenberg Palace (Prague)|Schwarzenberg Palace]], the [[Sternberg Palace]], and the [[Wallenstein Palace|Wallenstein Riding School]]. Founded in 1796, it is one of the world's oldest public art galleries and one of the [[list of largest art museums in the world|largest]] museums in [[Central Europe]].


==History==
==History==
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===Old Masters===
===Old Masters===
* [[Convent of Saint Agnes in Prague|Convent of St Agnes of Bohemia]] ([[Old Town (Prague)|Old Town]]) – Art of the Middle Ages in Bohemia and Central Europe
* [[Convent of Saint Agnes in Prague|Convent of St Agnes of Bohemia]] ([[Old Town (Prague)|Old Town]]) – Art of the Middle Ages in Bohemia and Central Europe
* Šternberk Palace ([[Hradčany]]) – European Art from Antiquity to the end of the Baroque period
* [[Sternberg Palace]] ([[Hradčany]]) – European Art from Antiquity to the end of the Baroque period
* Schwarzenberg palace (Hradčany) – Baroque in Bohemia
* [[Schwarzenberg Palace]] (Hradčany) – Baroque in Bohemia


===19th-Century Art===
===19th-Century Art===
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===Modern and Contemporary Art===
===Modern and Contemporary Art===
[[File:Praha Veletržní palác hala3.jpg|thumb|160px|The atrium in Veletržní palác.]]
[[File:Praha Veletržní palác hala3.jpg|thumb|160px|The atrium in Veletržní palác.]]

* Veletržní palác (Trade Fair Palace), [[Holešovice]] – 19th-, 20th-, and 21st-century art, the National Gallery's largest collection. Since 2012 Alfons Mucha's [[The Slav Epic|Slav Epic]] has been on display here.
* [[Trade Fair Palace]] (''Veletržní palác''), [[Holešovice]] – 19th-, 20th-, and 21st-century art, the National Gallery's largest collection. Since 2012 Alfons Mucha's [[The Slav Epic|Slav Epic]] has been on display here.
:The international collection includes numerous works by artists such as [[Pablo Picasso|Picasso]], [[Claude Monet|Monet]], [[Vincent van Gogh|Van Gogh]], [[Auguste Rodin|Rodin]], [[Paul Gauguin|Gauguin]], [[Paul Cézanne|Cézanne]], [[Pierre-Auguste Renoir|Renoir]], [[Egon Schiele|Schiele]], [[Edvard Munch|Munch]], [[Joan Miró|Miró]] and [[Gustav Klimt|Klimt]]; many of these are donations from the collection of art historian Vincenc Kramář.
:The international collection includes numerous works by artists such as [[Pablo Picasso|Picasso]], [[Claude Monet|Monet]], [[Vincent van Gogh|Van Gogh]], [[Auguste Rodin|Rodin]], [[Paul Gauguin|Gauguin]], [[Paul Cézanne|Cézanne]], [[Pierre-Auguste Renoir|Renoir]], [[Egon Schiele|Schiele]], [[Edvard Munch|Munch]], [[Joan Miró|Miró]], and [[Gustav Klimt|Klimt]]; many of these are donations from the collection of art historian Vincenc Kramář.
:Picasso, who has a spacious room to himself in the gallery, has two self-portraits there, and two of his nudes in addition to more abstract work. Works by Rodin, whose exhibition in Prague in the early 20th century had a profound impact on Czech sculpture for many years afterwards, include a series of busts and full-sized figure on a variety of subjects in the gallery.
:Picasso, who has a spacious room to himself in the gallery, has two self-portraits there, and two of his nudes in addition to more abstract work. Works by Rodin, whose exhibition in Prague in the early 20th century had a profound impact on Czech sculpture for many years afterwards, include a series of busts and full-sized figure on a variety of subjects in the gallery.
:The vast collection contains a large number of Czech and Slovak paintings and sculptures, including works by [[Alfons Mucha]], [[Otto Gutfreund]], [[František Kupka]], [[T. F. Šimon]], Tavik Frantisek Simon (1877-1942), [[Rudolf Fila]], [[Vincenc Beneš]] and [[Bohumil Kubišta]]. Along with the Black Madonna House and the [[Museum Kampa]], the Trade fair palace collection is one of the most notable collections of [[Czech Cubism]] in Prague. Notable works include ''Don Quixote'' by Gutfreund, ''Military Funeral'' by Beneš, an array of paintings by Kupka, covering almost all of the styles with which he experimented.
:The vast collection contains a large number of Czech and Slovak paintings and sculptures, including works by [[Alfons Mucha]], [[Otto Gutfreund]], [[František Kupka]], [[T. F. Šimon]], [[Rudolf Fila]], [[Vincenc Beneš]], and [[Bohumil Kubišta]]. Along with the Black Madonna House and the [[Museum Kampa]], the Trade fair palace collection is one of the most notable collections of [[Czech Cubism]] in Prague. Notable works include ''Don Quixote'' by Gutfreund, ''Military Funeral'' by Beneš, an array of paintings by Kupka, covering almost all of the styles with which he experimented.


* [[House of the Black Madonna]] (Old Town) – Czech Cubism
* [[House of the Black Madonna]] (Old Town) – Czech Cubism
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|File:Anonym - Votive Painting of Archbishop Jan Očko of Vlašim - Google Art Project.jpg|''[[Votive Panel of Jan Očko of Vlašim]]'', 1370
|File:Anonym - Votive Painting of Archbishop Jan Očko of Vlašim - Google Art Project.jpg|''[[Votive Panel of Jan Očko of Vlašim]]'', 1370
|File:Meister des Wittingauer Altars Entombment.jpg|''[[Třeboň Altarpiece]]'', 1380–1390
|File:Meister des Wittingauer Altars Entombment.jpg|''[[Třeboň Altarpiece]]'', 1380–1390
|File:Lucas Cranach the Elder - Adam and Eve - Google Art Project.jpg|''Adam and Eve'', [[Lucas Cranach the Elder]], ca. 1538
|File:Lucas Cranach the Elder - Adam and Eve - Google Art Project.jpg|''[[Adam and Eve (Original Sin) - Lucas Cranach the Elder|Adam and Eve]]'', [[Lucas Cranach the Elder]], ca. 1538
|File:Bartholomaeus Spranger - Epitaph of Goldsmith Nicolas Müller of Prague - Google Art Project.jpg|''Epitaph of Goldsmith Nicolas Müller of Prague'', [[Bartholomaeus Spranger]], 1592–1593
|File:Bartholomaeus Spranger - Epitaph of Goldsmith Nicolas Müller of Prague - Google Art Project.jpg|''Epitaph of Goldsmith Nicolas Müller of Prague'', [[Bartholomaeus Spranger]], 1592–1593
|File:Petr Brandl - Simeon with Infant Jesus - Google Art Project.jpg|''Simeon with Infant Jesus'', [[Petr Brandl]], 1725
|File:Petr Brandl - Simeon with Infant Jesus - Google Art Project.jpg|''Simeon with Infant Jesus'', [[Petr Brandl]], 1725
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==See also==
==See also==
*[[List of museums in Prague]]
* [[List of museums in Prague]]
* [[List of national galleries]]
* [[List of largest art museums]]


==References==
==References==
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== External links ==
== External links ==
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* {{Official website|http://www.ngprague.cz/en/}}
* {{Official website|http://www.ngprague.cz/en/}}
* [http://sbirky.ngprague.cz/en Collections of NGP]
* [http://sbirky.ngprague.cz/en Collections of NGP]
*[https://artsandculture.google.com/partner/the-national-gallery-in-prague?hl=en National Gallery Prague] within [[Google Arts & Culture]]
*[https://artsandculture.google.com/partner/the-national-gallery-in-prague?hl=en National Gallery Prague] within [[Google Arts & Culture]]

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Latest revision as of 17:44, 21 December 2024

National Gallery Prague
Národní galerie Praha
Veletržní palác (the Trade Fair Palace) houses
the National Gallery Prague
Map
Interactive fullscreen map
Established1796; 229 years ago (1796)
LocationPrague
Coordinates50°6′4″N 14°25′57″E / 50.10111°N 14.43250°E / 50.10111; 14.43250
TypeArt museum
Visitors711,928 (2018)[1]
DirectorAlicja Knast
CuratorAdam Budak
Public transit accessTram stop: Veletržní palác
C Vltavská
Praha–Bubny
Websitengprague.cz

The National Gallery Prague (Czech: Národní galerie Praha, NGP), formerly the National Gallery in Prague (Národní galerie v Praze), is a state-owned art gallery in Prague, which manages the largest collection of art in the Czech Republic and presents masterpieces of Czech and international fine art in permanent and temporary exhibitions. The collections of the gallery are not housed in a single building, but are presented in a number of historic structures within the city of Prague, as well as other places. The largest of the gallery sites is the Trade Fair Palace, which houses the National Gallery's collection of modern art. Other important exhibition spaces are located in the Convent of St Agnes of Bohemia, the Kinský Palace, the Salm Palace, the Schwarzenberg Palace, the Sternberg Palace, and the Wallenstein Riding School. Founded in 1796, it is one of the world's oldest public art galleries and one of the largest museums in Central Europe.

History

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Šternberk Palace at Hradčany

The history of the National Gallery dates back to the end of the 18th century (namely February 5, 1796[2]), when a group of prominent representatives of Bohemian patriotic aristocracy (Kolowrat, Sternberg, Nostitz) and middle-class intellectuals decided to elevate what they called the "debased artistic taste" of the local population. The institution, which received the title Society of Patriotic Friends of the Arts, established the Academy of Fine Arts and the Picture Gallery. In 1918 the Picture Gallery became a central collection of newly formed Czechoslovakia.

In 1995 new spaces dedicated to 19th- and 20th-century art were opened in the refurbished Veletržní Palác (Trade Fair Palace), itself a national monument as Prague's largest functionalist building and one of the earliest examples of that architectural style in the city (construction began in 1925).

St George's Convent (Hradčany) was formerly used to display Art of the Middle Ages in Bohemia and Central Europe, baroque art, and the 19th-century art of Bohemia.

The collections

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Old Masters

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19th-Century Art

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Modern and Contemporary Art

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The atrium in Veletržní palác.
  • Trade Fair Palace (Veletržní palác), Holešovice – 19th-, 20th-, and 21st-century art, the National Gallery's largest collection. Since 2012 Alfons Mucha's Slav Epic has been on display here.
The international collection includes numerous works by artists such as Picasso, Monet, Van Gogh, Rodin, Gauguin, Cézanne, Renoir, Schiele, Munch, Miró, and Klimt; many of these are donations from the collection of art historian Vincenc Kramář.
Picasso, who has a spacious room to himself in the gallery, has two self-portraits there, and two of his nudes in addition to more abstract work. Works by Rodin, whose exhibition in Prague in the early 20th century had a profound impact on Czech sculpture for many years afterwards, include a series of busts and full-sized figure on a variety of subjects in the gallery.
The vast collection contains a large number of Czech and Slovak paintings and sculptures, including works by Alfons Mucha, Otto Gutfreund, František Kupka, T. F. Šimon, Rudolf Fila, Vincenc Beneš, and Bohumil Kubišta. Along with the Black Madonna House and the Museum Kampa, the Trade fair palace collection is one of the most notable collections of Czech Cubism in Prague. Notable works include Don Quixote by Gutfreund, Military Funeral by Beneš, an array of paintings by Kupka, covering almost all of the styles with which he experimented.

Graphics Collection

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Oriental Art

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  • Kinský Palace (Old Town) – Art of Asia and Art of the Ancient World

On display outside Prague

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  • Kinský castle Žďár nad Sázavou – Baroque Art from the Collections of the National Gallery in Prague
  • Fryštát castle in Karviná – 19th-century Czech art from the Collections of the National Gallery in Prague
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See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Klesá návštěvnost Národní galerie, nebo ne? Ministr Staněk si protiřečí | Aktuálně.cz". Aktuálně.cz (in Czech). 24 April 2019. Retrieved 7 June 2019.
  2. ^ "A brief history". Archived from the original on 22 November 2013. Retrieved 28 October 2012.
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