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
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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)
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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)
fluences 0 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
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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
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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
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István Nádler (*1938) Active Yellow / (1968)
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Věra Nováková (* 1928) Job / 1954
Ludmila Padrtová (*1931) Blue / 1957
Tendencies, Neoconstructive ncretism, Co t, Ar Systems and Personal New Geometry 0s –1980s 96 / 1 s m Progra
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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Tomáš Císařovský, Milan Kunc David Černý, Jiří Surůvka
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David Černý (*1967) Adam (from the Kits cycle) / 1993
Milan Knížák (*1940) Untitled / 1964–1979
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Jana Želibská (1941) She / 1967
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László Fehér Jan Knap, Włodzimierz Pawlak Jiří David, Laco Teren František Skála, Michal Gabriel
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Jan Knap (*1949) Untitled / (1984)
Postmodern Approaches / 1980s
Picture Gallery Jiří Surůvka (*1961) Gilbert & George (detail) / 1999
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