Contemporary Czech sculptor, author of many controversial sculptures and installations, e.g. Entropa and the pink Soviet tank.
Public transportation facility also intended to serve as a representative art gallery. The visual concept of the central section of line A is world-famous.
Important avant-garde association of writers, theoreticians, architects, theatre artists and fine artists. It organised different cultural events, mostly in the spirit of left-wing politics.
A Czech-German fine artist, drawer, designer, illustrator and animator born in northern Bohemia. He became known as the creator of the animated film Yellow Submarine.
Painter, graphic artist, sculptor, theoretician and diplomat, introduced Cubism in its best form to Czech art. Today, his works are some of the most expensive paintings sold at auctions in the Czech Republic.
One of the most famous world exhibitions and the first large exhibition organised after the Second World War, which attracted a lot of artists and visitors from all over the world and brought Czechoslovakia great recognition and many awards.
Cubist painter, an important figure of Czech modernism, one of the most important representatives of the so-called organic abstraction. He made his name in the interwar period and is primarily famous for his abstract works.
Poet, painter, caricaturist, mostly published in the magazines Moderní revue and Nový kult. He earned the label “poet of anarchistic dreams and perverted sex”.
Collective name for an informal group of architects and artists who took part in the founding and decoration of the National Theatre.
Important 20th century Czech painter and graphic artist, member of Group 42. His work stemmed from Cubism and he managed to surpass Socialist Realism and develop his own unique style based on play with colour configurations and combinations of diverse fine arts techniques.
Czech art group, formed in 1942. It consisted of artists and writers focused on capturing the existential and everyday feelings and concerns of urban people.
Association of fine artists, architects, writers and theoreticians of fine arts, active shortly before the First World War, between 1911 and 1914. The group’s activities created conditions for the development of Czech modern art.
Association of fine artists, architects, art historians and critics in Brno, which existed in interwar Czechoslovakia and participated in the development of modern art in Moravia.
Prominent representative of modern Czech sculpture and one of the most important Cubist sculptors. He created many reliefs and sculptures and drew sketches of the highest quality.
One of the most important German painters, who primarily worked at the court of Emperor Rudolph II. He influenced many artists in the period of Mannerism.
Known in the Czech Republic as Václav Hollar. Engraver and drawer, one of the most famous European graphic artists and illustrators, who excelled with his talent, diligence and perfectly executed realistic works. He was especially recognised in England.
World famous and in the Czech Republic the largest Baroque Holy Trinity plague column. It is regarded as one of the pinnacles of Baroque art, declared a national cultural monument and inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List.
A distinguished painter and graphic artist, who brought to Czech painting a distinctly atmospheric plein air painting. He belonged to the so-called Generation of the National Theatre and is primarily known as an author of the theatre curtain.
Painter, drawer, illustrator, important Czech artist, bearing his father’s Italian surname. He became famous primarily because of landscape paintings; he was a predecessor of Antonín Slavíček and brought a new way of depicting landscapes to Czech landscape painting, marking the beginnings of Impressionism.
Romanesque single-nave proprietary church from the 12th century, located near Kutná Hora. It has unique ornamental sculptures, the most extensive surviving collection of Romanesque sculptures in the Czech Republic.
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