Photo: National Gallery Prague
A new exhibition marking 200 years since the birth of Josef Mánes, one of the pioneers of modern Czech art, is currently underway at Prague’s National Gallery. The retrospective, entitled Josef Mánes: Man – Artist – Legend, features more than 400 items, including the original Calendar Plate from Prague’s Astronomical Clock.
“People dream at night…I dream in the day.” A quotation from Josef Mánes’s sketchbook has become the motif of a new exhibition currently underway in National Gallery’s Wallenstein Riding School. It is the first show dedicated to the famous Czech artist since 1971, says one of its curators, Veronika Hulíková:
“We thought it was time to present the collection of Mánes’s drawings, prints and paintings from the National Gallery’s collection again, as the gallery manages the largest collection of his works.
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Authors: Ruth Fraňková, Karel Oujezdský