Erwin Antonín Anna Dubský, a Frigate Captain in the Austro-Hungarian navy, was a member of an old Bohemian aristocratic family which, in the 19th century, resided at the Moravian chateau in Lysice. In the years 1874–1876, Dubský sailed around the world aboard the corvette Erzherz...

The Richard Adam collection is, in its complex scope, the most extensive grouping of Czech painting from the mid-1980s up to the present to be found in the Czech Republic. Starting with the generation of the “Tvrdohlaví” (Hardheads), it runs through the lyricist tendencies of the...

The Dutch photographer Rineke Dijkstra (1959) has achieved international acclaim through her powerful cycles of portraits, focusing primarily on highly specific, ordinary people and their individual fates and emotions. Her large-format portraits are simple, rendered in subtle col...

Václav Jirásek (b. 1965 in Karviná) belongs to the intermediate generation of Czech artists who have selected photography as their chosen medium. At the instigation of Galerie Rudolfinum, he has now completed a special project, to be presented to the viewing public from February ...

The Origin of Beauty – The Power of Vision  ...