Museum of Applied Arts in Prague

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Decorative Arts Museum in Prague (2016)

The Museum of Applied Arts in Prague ( UPM for short for Czech : Uměleckoprůmyslové museum ) is a state museum of arts and crafts in the Josefov district of Prague .

history

The museum was founded in 1885 by the Prague Chamber of Commerce and Industry as a museum of arts and crafts. The first collections were housed in the Rudolfinum until 1900 , when the new museum building, built from 1897 to 1899 according to plans by the Prague architect Josef Schulz , was opened in 1900. The museum gained international renown in 1932 through the donation of the glass collection of the art historian and collector Gustav Edmund Pazaurek . Between 1959 and 1969, the Museum of Applied Arts lost its independence as part of the National Gallery in Prague .

Collections

The Museum of Applied Arts in Prague houses the largest collection of applied arts in the Czech Republic . The exhibits of arts and crafts , applied art and designs come from the entire period from late antiquity to the present . The main focus is on European art, with an emphasis on Bohemia . The individual exhibition rooms of the permanent collection are named thematically according to their contents: the glass, ceramic and porcelain hall, the halls for the “art of fire”, the clock room for “time machines”, the graphics room for “print and image”, the furniture room for the “History of Materials”, and the textiles and fashion room for the “History of Fibers”.

Collections:

  • Glass, ceramic and porcelain

  • Graphic arts and photography

  • Textiles, fashion and toys

In addition to the collections in the main building, the UPM branches in Prague has Hradcany (Galerie Josefa Sudka) and the towns Česká Skalice ( Czech Skalitz ) Kamenice nad Lipou ( Kamenice nad Lipou ) and Klasterec nad Ohri ( Klösterle an der Eger ).

Library

Library of the Kunstgewerbemuseum

The library of the Museum of Applied Arts ( Knihovna Uměleckoprůmyslového musea v Praze ) is the largest special library in the Czech Republic for all subject areas of art and art history with around 172,000 media . It includes a comprehensive art encyclopedia, dictionaries, reference manuals and magazines.

literature

  • Karel Chytil: Guide to the Collections: Museum of Applied Arts of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Prague , Publishing House of the Museum of Applied Arts, Prague, 1909
  • Karel Hetteš: Venetian Glass , Artia, Prague, 1960
  • František Matouš: Medieval stained glass in Czechoslovakia , Böhlau Verlag , Vienna, 1975
  • Pavel Janák u. a .: Pavel Janák, 1882–1956: Architecture and Applied Arts , Verlag der Kunstgewerbemuseum, Prague, 1984
  • UPM: Museum of Applied Arts in Prague , 1885–1985, Verlag der Kunstgewerbemuseum, Prague, 1985
  • Helmut Ricke u. a .: Lötz : Böhmisches Glas 1880–1940 , Prestel, Munich, 1989
  • Barbara Scheffran : Prague Art Nouveau , Edition Braus, Berlin, 1992
  • UPM: The Klösterle castle at Eger: Guide to the porcelain exhibition from the collection of the Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague , published by the Museum of Decorative Arts, Prague, 2005
  • Vladimír Birgus , Jan Mlčoch : Czech photography of the 20th century: March 13th to July 26th, 2009: Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany in Bonn , Kant, Prague, 2009

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Olaf Barth, Martina Schneibergová: The Prague Museum of Applied Arts . Radio Prague . December 30, 2000. Retrieved July 15, 2012.

Web links

Commons :  Museum of Applied Arts in Prague - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

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