Cesty uměleckých děl do sbírek NGP: Přednáškový cyklus NGP 230

Currently, the NGP manages more than 399,000 collection items, which were acquired in various ways. Part of the collection was acquired by the NGP thanks to the acquisition activities of its predecessors: the Society of Patriotic Friends of Art, whose 230th anniversary we are celebrating this year, and the Modern Gallery. Donations and bequests from private collectors were also of fundamental importance: Josef Hoser, Vojtěch Lanna, Josef Thomayer, Leopold Katz, Vincenc Kramář, and many other personalities. The history of the 20th century is reflected in the collection in the form of confiscations by the Nazi and Communist regimes, which the NGP struggled to rectify during the 1990s.

Veronika Hulíková's lecture will explore the journeys of specific works of art into the NGP collections, the lives of their original owners, and the NGP's current acquisition policy.

Lecturer: Veronika Hulíková, Director of the Modern Art Collection, curator of the exhibition NGP 230 Years. Together with Otto M. Urban and Filip Wittlich, she is the author of the permanent exhibition 1796–1918 Art of the Long Century.