The National Gallery Prague, formerly the National Gallery in Prague, 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.
Emil Filla, a Czech painter, was a leader of the avant-garde in Prague between World War I and World War II and was an early Cubist painter.
Otto Gutfreund also written Oto Gutfreund, was a Czech-Czechoslovak sculptor. After studying art in Prague and Paris, he became known in the 1910s for his sculptures in a cubist style. After his service in the First World War he worked in a more realistic style. His later work includes many small polychrome ceramic figures as well as architectural decorations.
Josef Wagner, Jr. painter, graphic artist, architect, pedagogue, a representative of contemporary Czech painting. At least four of his works are housed at the National Library of the Czech Republic.
Milan Knížák is a Czech performance artist, sculptor, musician, installation artist, dissident, graphic artist, art theorist and pedagogue of art.
Eduard Ovčáček is a Czech graphic artist, sculptor, lettrist, painter and professor at the University of Ostrava. His main artistic focus is put on classical graphic art, visual and concrete poetry, serigraphic art (screen-print), collage, lettrist photography, evenements and installations, structural and digital graphic art. Paintings, sculptures and geometrical objects fall within his interest as well.
Josef Bolf is a Czech painter. He studied at the Academy between 1990–1998. In 1995 he studied at Kongsthögskolan (Stockholm) and in 1996 at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Stuttgart. From 1996 to 2002 he was a member of the art group Bezhlavý jezdec.
Zdeněk Sýkora was a Czechoslovakian modern abstract painter and sculptor, and a pioneer of using computers in art.
Veronika Drahotová is a Czech artist and curator best known for mixed-media work incorporating painting, photography, video and installation.
Josef Žáček is a Czech painter. He graduated from Academy of Fine Arts in Prague in 1983.
Bohumil Zemanek was a Czech sculptor and restorer.
Ludmila Seefried-Matejková is a Czech sculptor and painter living in Berlin.
Josef Mařatka was a Czech sculptor.
Emanuel Max, after 1876: Ritter von Wachstein was a German-Czech sculptor. His brother was the sculptor Josef Max.
Dusan Mravec is a Slovak painter.
Jiří Černický is a Czech visual artist who known for experimental intermedia projects involving video art, visual poetry and photography. He is a winner of the Jindřich Chalupecký Award, the Soros Award and the 48th October Salon Award, and was a finalist for the Alice Francis Award.
František Michl, Czech academic painter, graphic artist, and original designer of the Škoda Works emblem, the "Winged Arrow".
The Václav Špála Gallery is a Prague gallery of mostly contemporary art. It is located at no. 59/30 Národní třída, in the New Town of Prague. The gallery holds exhibitions particularly of works by living Czech professional artists of the middle generation who are among the best painters, photographers, and sculptors on the art scene today. The exhibitions regularly alternate between works of painting, photography, and sculpture.
Miloslav Petrusek was a prominent Czech sociologist who served as a dean of Faculty of Social Sciences at Charles University in Prague between 1992–1997, as well as the prorector for academic affairs of the university in 1997–2000. For his consistent contribution to sociology and education, he received numerous awards, such as Ordre des Palmes Académiques or Golden Medal of Masaryk University. In 2012, Petrusek received The VIZE 97 Prize.
Hynek Martinec is a Czech painter, who graduated from the Studio of Classical Painting Techniques under the supervision of Prof. Zdeněk Beran at the Academy of Fine Arts, Prague. After his studies he left for Paris (2005-2007) and since 2007 has been living in London. He received the prestigious BP Young Artist Award (2007) for his hyperrealistic portraits. His paintings are inspired by Old Masters and/or photographs, which link the past with the future, using modern technologies.
