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Century
of Relativity
20th Century Fine Arts
Permanent Exhibition
Olomouc Museum of Art
Century
of Relativity
20th Century Fine Arts
Permanent Exposition
as from November 14, 2013 / Museum of modern Art
Attic (1890–1946), Picture Gallery (1947–2000)
The presentation portrays the best of our rich collection of
20th century art. This is, in brief, the basic aim of the new permanent exposition located on two floors of the Museum of
modern Art. One exhibition hall would not suffice for a permanent exposition since the Museum’s collections include
a broad spectrum of works – often contradicting in ideas and
styles of which we can identify as important, or even without
exaggeration, crucial not only for Czech modern and contemporary art.
The Attic exhibition hall has been assigned for the 1st
half of the 20th century. We namely emphasize the paintings
and sculptures which represent the basic streams in Czech
modern art of this period. The introductory part uses selected works to document the echoes of impressionism
(A. Hudeček, V. Radimský, A. Slavíček), and, as a contrast,
we exhibit the representatives of the symbolist and decadent tendencies of the early 20th century here (F. Schön,
J. Preisler). The exposition is however, based on a thorough
and rich presentation of modern trends seen from expressionism (E. Filla, O. Nejedlý), cubism (E. Filla, O. Gutfreund,
B. Kubišta, A. Procházka), cubo-expressionism (H. M.
Davringhausen, O. Gutfreund) up to civilism (J. Čapek) or,
on the contrary, the exotism of the 1920s (A. Hoffmeister,
J. Hněvkovský) without forgetting abstraction (F. Foltýn,
A. Diviš, H. Wichterlová) and surrealism from the turn of
1920s and 1930s (V. Makovský, F. Muzika, Z. Sklenář, Toyen).
The final chapter is then formed by works of Group 42
(F. Gross, F. Hudeček, K. Lhoták, J. Smetana) and by works reflecting the war apocalypse (J. Liesler, V. Hejna, R. Michalik).
We also paid special attention to modern landscape-painting whose most prominent works describe (although with
a different language) the atmosphere of the time of their
origin as well (O. Coubine, O. Kerhart, J. Šíma, V. Špála).
The second part of the permanent exhibition – in the
Picture Gallery – has an ambition to give a worthy overview
of the most important artistic tendencies after the end of
WWII up to the end of the 20th century. The exposition is introduced with examples of work from distinguished solitaires
of the 1950s (V. Fuka, V. Nováková, J. Sobotka) or authors
who resumed the ideas of the pre-war avant-garde (J. Istler).
We continue with post-war abstraction, works connected
with various forms of lyrical and structural abstraction
(J. Kotík, M. Medek, L. Padrtová, R. Piesen, A. Veselý). Next,
examples of varied forms of lettrism (J. Kolář, S. Kovařík,
E. Ovčáček) and neo-constructivism (H. Demartini, K. Malich,
L. Přibyl, Z. Sýkora) dominate among many antagonistic
tendencies of the 1960s which contrast with paintings and
sculptures of the so called new figuration (V. Janoušková,
V. Janoušek, E. Kmentová, K. Válová), namely Czech grotesque (K. Nepraš) and later existential figuration of the 1970s
and 1980s (V. Novák, M. Rittstein). The exposition concludes
with conceptual and post-modern manifestations (J. David,
M. Gabriel, F. Skála) whose influences had a clear impact on
art in the last decade (T. Císařovský, D. Černý, J. Surůvka).
The Picture Gallery however, does not house Czech art
only; we also strive to include the Czech collection into
a broader context in relation to our acquisition efforts related
to the Olomouc Central European Forum Project. Therefore,
there are examples of exile authors (J. Knap, M. Kunc,
O. Slavík, I. Theimer) and prominent Polish (M. Abakanowicz,
A. Lenica, T. Kantor, K. Mikulski, W. Pawlak, R. Winiarski),
Hungarian (I. Bak, L. Fehér, G. Jovánovicz, D. Mauer, I. Nádler,
S. Pinczehelyi, E. Tot), and Slovak authors as well (M. Bočkay,
M. Dobeš, O. Laubert, J. Meliš, L. Teren, M. Urbásek, J. Želibská).
Authors of Exposition Štěpánka Bieleszová (Attic),
Ladislav Daněk (Picture Gallery)
Texts Štěpánka Bieleszová, Ladislav Daněk
Expert Collaboration Barbora Kundračíková
Translations Hana Havlíčková, Proofreading Michael Stuart Esson
Graphic Design Beata Rakowská, Petr Šmalec
Architectural Design Marek Novák, Michal Soukup
Preparation of Exhibits Dalibor Sedlák, Veronika Wanková
Instalation Vlastimil Sedláček, Filip Šindelář
Public Relations Petr Bielesz
Educational Programmes David Hrbek, Michaela Johnová Čapková
partners
media partners
Sitting Negro / (1928)
Bedřich Stefan (1896–1982)
Exotics and Fan
1920s
Václav Špála (1885 – 1946)
Landscape near Červená nad Vltavou
1927
Adolf Hoffmeister
Jaroslav Hněvkovs
Bedřich Stefan
Modern Landscape I
1910s–1940s
Otakar Nejedlý, Miloš Jiránek
Jindřich Prucha, Václav Špála
Otakar Kubín, Rudolf Kremlička
Oldřich Kerhart, Bohumil Kafka
Václav Radimský (1867–1946)
On the Pond / (1903 – 1904)
Attic
Václav Radims
Antonín Slavíč
Josef Wagner
Impressionist Inf
after 1900
Josef Šíma
Martin Salcman
Josef Čapek
Modern Landscape II
1920s–1930s
Martin Salcman (1896–1979)
Landscape near Nebřeziny
1937
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Jan Preisler (1872 – 1918)
Composition for a picture for
the Prostějov National House
(1906 – 1907)
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Echoes of Traditions
Emil Filla, Jan Preisler
Jan Štursa, Josef Mařatka
Bohumil Kubišta (1884–1918)
Portrait of Jan Zrzavý / 1912
Expressionist Tendencies
1910s –1920s
Czech Cubism
1910s –1930s
Emil Filla (1882 – 1953)
A Woman with a Fan / 1917
Antonín Procházka
Emil Filla, Otto Gutfreund
Bohumil Kubišta
František Hudeček
Josef Čapek, František Foltýn
Heinrich Maria Davringhausen
Otto Gutfreund
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František Hudeček
František Gross, Bohumír Matal
Kamil Lhoták, Jan Smetana
Otakar Švec, Ladislav Zívr
WWII Scepticism
1940s
Civilist Poetics
1940s
Josef Liesler (1912–2005)
Many strange Judges / 1944
Josef Liesler
Rudolf Michalik
Václav Hejna
Kamil Lhoták (1912 – 1990)
Two flying Balloons / 1942
Surrealist Tendencies
1930s–1940s
František Janoušek
Toyen, Zdeněk Sklenář
Vincenc Makovský
Autonomous World of Abstraction
1920s–1930s
Alén Diviš, František Foltýn
Josef Dumek, Hana Wichterlová
Toyen (1902 – 1980)
Flowers of Sleep / 1931
František Foltýn (1891 – 1976)
Atonality and its Permeation / 1929
Olomouc
Archdiocesan
Museum
Regional Museum
of Olomouc
Regional Museum
in Olomouc
Echoes of Surrealism,
Lyrical and Gestural
Abstraction / 1950s
Kazimierz Mikulski
Josef Istler, Alfred Lenica
Jan Kotík, Ludmila Padrtová
Geometric Structures,
Op Art, Kinetism
1960s–1970s
Museum
of Modern Art
Ryszard Winiarski
(1936–2006)
Surface 132 / 1973
Zdeněk Sýkora,
Hugo Demartini, Lubomír Přibyl
Vladislav Mirvald, Ryszard Winiarski
Jiří Novák, Milan Dobeš
Radoslav Kratina, Milan Mölzer
Dalibor Chatrný, Karel Malich
Vlastivědné
muzeum
István Nádler (*1938)
Active Yellow / (1968)
István Nádler
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Jan Kubíček, Sta
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Dóra Mauer, Gyö
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Milan Bočkay, Imr
Věra Nováková (* 1928)
Job / 1954
Ludmila Padrtová (*1931)
Blue / 1957
Tendencies,
Neoconstructive
ncretism,
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Ar
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New Geometry
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Structural Abstraction
1950s–1960s
Jan Koblasa, Aleš Veselý
Mikuláš Medek, Robert Piesen
Jan Hendrych
Aleš Veselý (* 1935)
Picture-Object / 1960–1964
Script and Picture,
Visual Poetry
1960s–1970s
Běla Kolářová, Eduard Ovčáček
Miloš Urbásek, Miroslav Šnajdr st.
Slavoj Kovařík, Jiří Kolář
Jan Wojnar, Endre Tot
Libor Fára, Vladimír Kordoš
Vladimír Fuka
Ivan Sobotka
Věra Nováková
Alén Diviš
Zdeněk Palcr
Zbyněk Sekal
Tadeusz Kantor
Solitaires / 1950s
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Jiří Kolář (1914–2002)
The Poem of Silence, An Objective Poem / 1962
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Utopian Visions
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Conceptual
1960s– 1980s
Tomáš Císařovský, Milan Kunc
David Černý, Jiří Surůvka
Art of 1990s
David Černý (*1967)
Adam (from the Kits cycle) / 1993
Milan Knížák (*1940)
Untitled / 1964–1979
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Dóra Mauer, Oti
Jana Želibská (1941)
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1960s –1980s
László Fehér
Jan Knap, Włodzimierz Pawlak
Jiří David, Laco Teren
František Skála, Michal Gabriel
Gallery
Jan Knap (*1949)
Untitled / (1984)
Postmodern Approaches / 1980s
Picture Gallery
Jiří Surůvka (*1961)
Gilbert & George (detail) / 1999
City Hall
Astronomical clock
Holy Trinity
Column
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