prints collection
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).
Among the oldest works in this collection is a group of prints by Max Švabinský, a large part of which are portraits, and woodcuts and blind stampings by František Bílek. There is a smaller set of avant-garde artists from the early 20th century (Václav Špála, Jindřich Štyrský, Toyen, Josef Šíma). The Sursum group and Group 42 are also represented (František Kobliha, Jan Konůpek, Josef Váchal, Kamil Lhoták) along with other avant-garde artists from the 1940s (František Tichý, Ladislav Zívr). Artists from the Bohemian-Moravian Highlands include Eva Činčerová, Karel Němec, Gustav Krum, Jaroslav Šerých, František Dörfl and Jindřich Boška.
One of the most interesting groups of abstract prints from the 1960s is a set of dry points by Václav Boštík. The collection also includes Vladimír Boudník’s active and magnetic prints, Dalibor Chatrný’s screen prints and a number of works by Ivan Chatrný, Radoslav Kratina and Karel Malich, as well as prints by Libuše Loskotová, Eduard Ovčáček, Naděžda Plíšková and Jiří Valoch. There are then prints by Čestmír Kafka from the 1970s. Figurative works include prints by Jiří Balcar, Josef Istler, Jiří John, Ivan Kafka, Zdeněk Sklenář and Adriena Šimotová. The 1970s are represented by a large set of works by Olga Čechová, while Jitka and Květa Válová each have a single print here, and there is also a group of Adolf Born’s lithographs.
Acquisitions from the period after 1989 include Jiří Petrbok’s lithographs from the 1990s and works by Petr Nikl and Michael Rittstein.
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František Bílek, Ó duše blahoslavené, pomozte nám..., dřevoryt
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František Kobliha, Klubko, dřevoryt
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Kamil Lhoták, Ze života závodníků, 1950, suchá jehla
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Bohuslav Reynek, Listopad, 1966, suchá jehla
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Václav Boštík, Bez názvu, 1969, suchá jehla
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Dalibor Chatrný, Kryptogramy bodů I., 1969, serigrafie
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Radoslav Kratina, Variační prvek B, 1967, tisk z koláže
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Libuše Loskotová, Šumění I., 1967, kombinovaná technika
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Ivan Kafka, Trubcova hora, 1973, lept
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Olga Čechová, Dvanáct kapek mezi kovovými součástkami, 1970, suchá jehla
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Jiří Petrbok, Sova, 1994, kolorovaná litografie
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Petr Nikl, Orchidej, 2006. litografie
