50 Masterpieces of Czech Fin de Sicle Art: From the Collections of The Gallery of West Bohemia in Pilsen

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The fin de sicle artworks collection in The Gallery of West Bohemia in Pilsen ranks among the best public collections in the Czech Republic. It covers all the key trends that appeared on the contemporary art scene, i.e. naturalism, symbolism, impressionism and art nouveau. At that time, Czech art was an integral part of international structures and many artists from the Czech lands studied, exhibited or worked in the key cultural centres of Europe, such as Vienna, Munich and Paris. The Pilsen collection includes, among others, works of two artists who achieved worldwide fame: one of the most important protagonists of art nouveau, Alfons Mucha, and the co-founder of abstract painting, Frantiek Kupka.

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Ale Filip is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Musicology, Masaryk University in Brno. rka Leubnerov is the former Head of the Nineteenth Century Collection of the National Gallery in Prague. Roman Musil has been the Director of the Gallery of West Bohemia in Plzen since December 2007. He previously worked in the Ministry of Culture and in the National Gallery in Prague. He specialises in the art and cultural history of the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. Ivana Sklov is a Curator at the Gallery of West Bohemia in Pilsen. Marie Rakuanov is an Associate Professor at the Department of Art History, Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague.