The Vysočina Regional Gallery in Jihlava founded its collection in 1953, and it currently has over 6000 items. The collection is registered with the Czech Ministry of Culture's Central Registry of Museum-type Collections. The painting and print collections are relatively comprehensive, while drawing and sculpture are more fragmentary. Works from the 1960s are the most numerous group, and there are large sets of interwar social painting and Czech art from the 1940s. There have also been systematic acquisitions of works by selected artists from the region.
history of collection
The Vysočina Regional Gallery?s exhibitions and collection cover art from the 19th?21st centuries, and the collection currently has more than 6000 artefacts.
Prints
The print collection currently numbers more than 3000 works. The most comprehensive groups are 1960s abstract prints and the work of Bohuslav Reynek. The collection covers a wide variety of techniques (etching, lithography, dry point, monotype, woodcut and mixed media).
Drawings
The drawing collection became a separate entity in the mid-1990s, when an electronic cataloguing system was introduced, and it currently (in 2013) numbers over 1600 items. The fact that the collection was not previously a distinct element and served various purposes (e.g. travelling exhibitions) meant that no overall concept guided the collection.
Paintings
The collection of 19th-century paintings is not large, nor has it been systematically developed. Many prominent names are absent, although landscape painting is generally well represented. The collection includes works by Antonín Machek, Antonín Mánes, Josef Navrátil, Bedřich Havránek, Antonín Chittussi, Václav Brožík, Jakub Schikaneder, Antonín Slavíček, Alois Kalvoda and other artists.
New media
New media art is a broad genre covering art from the 1960s onwards that combines the creative and critical use of contemporary technologies with a new artistic sensibility.
Sculptures
The sculpture collection, including medals and plaquettes, currently has 361 items that outline the history of Czech sculpture.