Kinský Palace
Author of the exhibition: Milan Knížák
Exhibition curators: Naděžda Blažíčková-Horová, Vít Vlnas, Tomáš Vlček
Reopening of permanent exhibition
From 25 November 2005

The National Gallery’s permanent exhibition in the Kinský Palace in Prague guides visitors through several centuries of Bohemian and Czech landscape painting. It maps out works of the most significant landscape painters in the country. The most striking personalities are provided maximum space available; the display, however, also includes small-scale authors’ collections. The exhibition at the same time points out at the specific character of some aspects of landscape painting, for example veduta, landscape with social aspects or fantastic and symbolical landscape. The exhibition is accompanied by new guide.

Bohemian Baroque Landscape (Jan Rudolf Bys, Jan Jakub and František Antonín Hartmanns and others)

Nineteenth-Century Landscape Painting (landscape-painting school headed by Max Haushofer, Antonín Chittussi, Antonín Slavíček, Julius Mařák and others)

Landscape in the 20th-Century Art (Pravoslav Kotík, Bedřich Piskač, Karel Šlengr, Jan Mlčoch, Stanislav Kolíbal, Miloš Šejn and others)

The exhibition is accompanied by the display of the 19th- and 20th-century photographs

Graphic Cabinets, focused on landscape in the 19th- and 20th-century Czech drawing and graphic arts, are on display on the first floor of the Kinský Palace.

The permanent exhibition “Landscape in Czech Art” will be now accompanied by Karel Škréta’s painting Silvio and Dorinda, restored by academic painters Petr Bareš and Jiří Brodský.

Open daily except Mondays, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Entrance fee to the permanent exhibition:
Basic: 100 CZK
Reduced: 50 CZK
Family  : 150 CZK

Address:
Národní galerie v Praze / The National Gallery in Prague – Kinský Palace
Staroměstské Square 12, 110 15  Prague 1
How to get there: Metro line A, station Staroměstská or Můstek

Main media partner: Hospodářské noviny daily
Financial partner of the National Gallery’s education departments: HVB Bank
Partner: Termo+,
Media partners: Art and Antiques monthly, Classic FM, ČRO 3 – Vltava

Programs accompanying the permanent exhibition:

Landscape in Czech Art of the 17th–20th centuries
Kinský Palace
Entrance fee: basic – 100 CZK, reduced – 50 CZK, school groups – 20 CZK per person
Cash desk phone: +420-224 810 758, extension 250

Accompanying programs
organized by Education Department, Collection of 19th-Century Art
The National Gallery in Prague
Trade Fair Palace, Dukelských hrdinů 47, 170 00  Prague 7
Booking and information:
Phone: +420-224 301 003, e-mail: lect.suds@ngprague.cz

Programs for individuals
Sunday guided tours: Sundays 3 p.m., duration: 60 minutes
Commentary to the exhibition is free; only entrance fee is covered. Please meet the lector at the cash desk.
Dates: 29 January, 26 February, 26 March, 23 April, 28 May 2006
Guided tours on days of free entrance: Wednesdays 5 p.m., duration: 60 minutes
The commentary to the exhibition is free. Please meet the lector at the cash desk.
Dates: 4 January, 1 February, 1 March, 5 April, 3 May 2006
Booked guided tours:
Book a guided tour to the exhibition – Come with your friends, club members, or friends from abroad!
Guided tours shall be booked two weeks in advance.
Available in Czech, English and German.
Prize: basic – 200 CZK per hour and group.
Booking: two weeks in advance

Programs for schools and interest groups  

Programs for the second grade of elementary schools and for secondary schools:

Landscape – Bridge over the Centuries

An interactive program within the permanent exhibition maps out the development of landscape painting from Romanticism to Cubism. In their own words, students will be assigned to describe and compare styles of depicting landscape on the background of the 19th- and 20th-century artistic trends.

Programs for secondary schools:

Nineteenth-Century Landscape Painting and Literature

A program connecting the worlds of literature (Czech writers and poets K. H. Mácha, K. J. Erben, A. Sova, and others) and fine arts. The guided tour includes assigning students an independent work, based on confrontation of a painting and a text and on searching for relations between them.

Music Wanderings about the 19th-Century Landscape

A program aimed at searching for connections between and signs shared by fine arts and music (for example, W. A. Mozart, F. Schubert, A. Dvořák). Students will be assigned to create their own landscapes in the form of visual interpretation of music.

Twentieth-Century Landscape and Poetry

A program combining landscape aspects of the 20th-century fine arts and poetry (J. Deml, I. Blatný, V. Holan, and others) and opening unexpected parallels.

Maximum number of students in group: 25
Duration of the programs: 90–120 minutes
Prize of a program: c. 40–50 CZK per student (entrance fee included)
Accompaniment of a lecturer: free (two persons)

Guided tours for teachers: Wednesdays, 4:30 p.m., duration: 90 minutes
Our professionals will introduce you not only to the permanent exhibition of Bohemian and Czech landscape painting, but also to our program offer concerning our exhibitions and aimed at schools. Entrance fee and guided tour are free. Please meet the lector at the cash desk.
Dates: 25 January and 22 February 2006.

Programs focused on landscape painting and other permanent exhibitions of the National Gallery in Prague:
Education Department of the Collection of Old Masters, Sternberg Palace
Programs for the second grade of elementary schools and for secondary schools:
Beginnings and Development of Landscape Painting in European Art
Seventeenth-Century Netherlandish Painting
Phone: +420-220 514 598, e-mail: sp.educ@ngprague.cz

Education Department of the Collection of Old Masters, Convent of St George

Programs for nursery schools and the first grade of elementary schools:

The Secret of the Birds’ Tree – Will we succeed in revealing the message of a painting with the acoustic accompaniment of birds’ voices?

Programs for the second grade of elementary schools and for secondary schools:

Wanderings about Baroque Lanscape – Lets Become wanderers about hills, mountains and valleys of Baroque landscape!

Phone: +420-257 535 832, e-mail: ssueduc@ngprague.cz

Education Departments of the Collection of 19th-Century Art and the Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art, Trade Fair Palace

Program for the second grade of elementary schools and for secondary schools: About Landscape from Region to Region (for contacts, please see above)