National Gallery Prague: The Largest Exhibition Space in the Czech Republic

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Continuing with my series of photographs (finally!) from the most epic European dad-daughter trip of (probably?) our lifetime –
29 days from December 2023 to January 2024 via planes, trains and automobiles.

In my last post, we strolled through Prague’s historic Old Town Christmas Markets and in this post, our final one from Prague, we nerd out on art (something we are unreservedly wont to do whenever we travel) in one of the world’s oldest public art galleries, the National Gallery Prague.

National Gallery Prague

Founded in 1796, it is the largest exhibition space in the Czech Republic and one of the largest museums in Central Europe. The state-owned art gallery manages the largest collection of art in the Czech Republic and presents masterpieces of Czech and international fine art in permanent and temporary exhibitions.

After the first Prague Sample Fair Trade held in 1920, the idea of building a new exhibition ground originated because the old exhibition area was not sufficient anymore. In spring of 1923, the Czechoslovak government appropriated a sum of five million crowns for the gallery.

Architects Oldřich Tyl and Josef Fuchs were entrusted with working out a design of the new building. The construction process started in 1925 and the first trade fair palace (veletržní palác) was ceremonially opened on the 10th anniversary of the establishment of the Republic in 1928.

Today, the National Gallery administers six buildings in Prague – the Convent of St Agnes of Bohemia, the Sternberg Palace, the Schwarzenberg Palace, the Salm Palace, the Kinský Palace, and the Trade Fair Palace. It’s the Trade Fair Palace that has been the seat of the National Gallery Prague from 1976.

Now if you’ve followed any of my travel posts on this website, you know that my daughter and I are total art museum nerds and make it a priority to visit every one we find in any city we visit. The National Gallery Prague is well worth a visit. Enjoy the photographs…

Jan Zrzavý “Kázání na hoře” (Sermon on the Mount) (1912)

Sejmutí z kříže (Descent from the Cross) (1922) by August Brömse

Times Square (1924) by Maxim Kopf

Green Wheat Field (1889) by Vincent van Gogh

Mr. Myself (1920) by Josef Čapek

Tragédie (1920) by Egon Adler

Zrození Venuše (The Birth of Venus) (1920) by Alois Wachsman

Batseba (1927) by Alfred Justitz

Café Parnasse (1923) by Josef Šíma

Sochař (Sculptor) (1932) by Alois Wachsman

Tíživé odpoledne (Oppressive Afternoon) (1938) by František Hudeček

Tři sestry (Three Sisters) (1930) by Božena Jelínková-Jirásková

Civilizace (Civilization) (1927) by Emanuel Famíra

Černoška (Black Woman) (1926) by Václav Vojtěch Novák

Vyhnání z ráje (Expulsion from Paradise) (1932) by Ľudovít Fulla

Oheň (Fire) (1938) by Josef Čapek

Únos Sabinek (1903) by Vladimir Sychra

Velké jídlo (The Great Meal) (1951-56) by Mikuláš Medek

Mrtvý ptáček (Dead Bird) (1976) by Míla Doleželová

In memoriam II (1943) by František Muzika

Proměny (Transformations) (1984) by Jaroslava Pešicová

Auto (2005) by Josef Bolf

Scény z manželského života (Scenes from Married Life) (1999) by Tomáš Kubík