Місце знаходження

• U Sovových mlýnů 503/2, 118 00 Praha 1 - Malá Strana, Czech Republic
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Мови

• Чеська

Веб-сайт

• http://www.museumkampa.cz/cs/Sbirka-Jana-a-Medy-Mladkovych-20.htm

Назва колекції

• Jan and Meda Mládek Collection

Походження та культурна діяльність

• The Jan and Meda Mládek Collection was built step by step. The first works purchased by the couple were those by František Kupka. Jan Viktor Mládek, as well as his wife Meda Mládková (Sokolová), left Czechoslovakia before the year 1948. A deeper interest in the art of the second half of the twentieth century started towards the end of the 1960s. In 1968 the couple bought a broader collection from an exhibition of Czechoslovak art that took place in Washington. We might call this the founding moment of the collection. From then on, purchases were made not only from abroad, as they also visited the studios of Czechoslovak artists. Beginning in 1984, the Mládeks were not allowed to visit Czechoslovakia and that was the moment when they started to collect works of art from other eastern countries, mainly Yugoslavia, Poland and Hungary. When Jan Mládek died in 1989, Meda Mládková moved back to Czechoslovakia with the collection. From then on, the collection grew bigger. It gained works from the George Soros Collection and all the property became part of a new foundation. In 2003, the City of Prague rented a building, Sovovy Mlýny, to the foundation. Thus, Prague became an owner of one part of the collection. Currently, the collection contains about 2000 works, of which only a small part is the collection built before 1989 by the Mládeks. Other works were bought by the foundation or received as a gift.

  Before 1989, the collection covered works by “unofficial” artists; however this was not the criteria for their purchase. Mládková bought works that spoke to her, those that she liked and suited her taste. Still, we might say that the artists represented by the collection were part of the unofficial scene, as they neither supported the official art programme defined by the union, nor worked in the style of socialist realism.
  Although the collection before 1989 covered mainly figurative works and art dealing with the problematic human body, today the collection represents the history of the unofficial art of the second half of the twentieth century.

Опис змісту

• The collection contains about 2000 works – paintings, sculptures, drawings, collages, and photographs. Its political implications are more nuanced, and one of the reasons for this, according to the collection’s employee, is the fact that Czechoslovak art was not as political as works by Polish or Hungarian artists. The core of the collection was defined by the taste of Meda Mládková.

Вміст

• Unknown type: 100-499
• графіка: 500-999
• картини: 500-999
• скульптури: 100-499

Оператор (и)

• Museum Kampa - Jan and Meda Mládek Foundation

Власник (и)

• Mládková, Meda
• Museum Kampa - Jan and Meda Mládek Foundation

Зацікавлена (і) сторона (и) колекції

• Průša, Sandra

Географічний обсяг недавньої операції

• міжнародний

Теми

• авангард, неоавангард
• витончені мистецтва
• візуальне мистецтво

Засновники

• Mládek, Jan
• Mládková, Meda

Дата заснування

• 1968

Місце заснування

• Washington, D.C.
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Творець матеріалів

• Birkás, Ákos
• Janoušek, Vladimír
• Janoušková, Věra
• Kmentová, Eva
• Kolář, Jiří
• Kratina, Radoslav
• Načeradský, Jiří
• Nepraš, Karel
• Slavík, Otakar
• Veselý, Aleš
• Šimotová, Adriena

Колектор (и)

• Mládek, Jan
• Mládková, Meda

Прихильники

• Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic

Важливі події в історії колекції

• Event (general): Opening of Kampa Museum in 2003

Oсобливо цінні експонати

• Načeradský, Jiří. Running Women, 1967. Painting

Тип доступу

• частина закрита для громадськості

Публікації

• Museum Kampa, Meda Mládková, and Jiří Machalický. 2009. Sbírky Musea Kampa = The Museum Kampa Collection. [Praha]: Museum Kampa - Nadace Jana a Medy Mládkových.

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• Lomová, Johana

Список літератури

Museum Kampa, Meda Mládková, and Jiří Machalický. 2009. Sbírky Musea Kampa = The Museum Kampa Collection. [Praha]: Museum Kampa - Nadace Jana a Medy Mládkových. 

Průša, Sandra , interview by Lomová, Johana , September 22, 2016. COURAGE Registry Oral History Collection