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The Museum of Czech Cubism is located in a Cubist building by Josef Gocár, 'House of the Black Madonna' (a former department store & Café ) dating from 1912.
The museum opened in the newly renovated House of the Black Madonna in Celetná Street in 2003.
The exhibition of Czech Cubism presented on the second and third floors of the Black Madonna House focuses on the years 1910–19, an important stage of Cubism in the Czech lands.
Painting is represented by the works of Emil Filla, Bohumil Kubišta, Vincenc Beneš, Josef Capek, Antonín Procházka, Václav Špála, Jan Zrzavý, Otakar Nejedlý, and Otakar Kubín, while sculpture is the domain of Otto Gutfreund.
The museum also contains furniture made from designs of the architects Pavel Janák, Josef Gocár and Vlastislav Hofman. Their architectural works, along with documents of Josef Chochol’s works, are shown in a number of photos and two models: Gocár’s 'House of the Black Madonna' and Chochol’s tenement house in Neklanova St. It is the Czech Cubist architecture dating from the years before World War I that is quite unique and cannot be found anywhere else in Europe.
Glass designed by Josef Rosipal and posters present the works
of Jaroslav Benda, V. H. Brunner and Václav Špála.
Opening Times & Price
Tues - Sun at 10am - 6 pm
(Closed Monday)
Entrance Fee: 100 Czech Crown
(After 4pm - 50 Czech Crown)
Address
Black Madonna House
Ovocný trh 19
Pargue 1
Tel: +420 224 211 746
How to Get There
Metro B - námestí Republiky
Metro A - Mustek
External Links
Official Web Site at National Gallery who run the Museum of Czech Cubism
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