Highlights from the National Gallery
The Czech Centres and the National Gallery Prague (NGP) present their joint project Highlights from the National Gallery Pragueintroducing selected works from the NGP collections in eleven videos. This cooperation was initiated by the Czech Centres seeking a succinct and visually powerful on-line project related to visual arts and the Czech milieu. The CC therefore invited the NGP to become a partner in a project introducing a representative selection of artworks from the NGP collections, displaying rich and diverse creations of Czech artists and outstanding works closely linked to the local cultural milieu. All the episodes are presented by art historian Veronika Wolf.
The videos will be made available every Thursday until mid-July regularly here as well as Facebook page of the Czech Centres.
Beginning mid-May, individual sequels will be first released on social networks in Czechia, Japan, and the Republic of Korea. During the summer and autumn, other countries in which the Czech Centres are based will take over – specifically Athens, Brussels, Kiev, Moscow, New York, Paris, Rotterdam, Tbilisi, Tel Aviv – Jerusalem, Tokyo, and Vienna.
Project Highlights from the National Gallery Prague introduced these
artworks:
- 11) Toyen, Summer; Horror
- 10) František Kupka, Amorpha, Fugue in Two
Colours; Ballad (Joys of Life)
- 9) Japonisme in Czech art and Emil Orlik, Model
- 8) Alfons Mucha, Gismonda
- 7) Gustav Klimt, Virgin
- 6) The French Collectinon and Auguste Renior, Lovers
- 5) Petr Brandl, Simeon with the Infant Jesus
- 4) Karel Škréta, Portrait of the Gem-Cutter
Dionysius Miseroni and His Family
- 3) Artists of Emperor Rudolph II’s era –
Roelandt Savery, Paradise
- 2) Albrecht Dürer, Feast of the Rose Garlands
- 1) Emperor Charles IV and The Votive Panel of Jan Očko of Vlašim
VERONIKA WOLF
Veronika Wolf graduated in the History of Art from Palacky University Olomouc. She also studied Italian art at Ca’ Foscari University in Venice and art law at the Sotheby’s Institute of Art in London.
She has previously worked at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, lived for several years in London and, prior to joining the National Gallery Prague as Director of External Affairs, was Director of The Lobkowicz Collections in Prague. Veronika has given lectures at universities in London and Paris, and at museums in Berlin, Moscow, and Singapore.
PartnERS
The videos are also available on the Facebook page of the @NGPrague as well as on its Youtube channel.
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The Czech Centres (CC) and the National Gallery Prague (NGP) present their joint project Highlights from the National...