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Prague museum rebounds - Front Page - Museum Kampa - Brief Article
Art in America, Nov, 2003
The Museum Kampa, a venue in Prague that houses international contemporary art and an important private collection of Czech modernist works, was inaugurated this past September after long delays. Located along the banks of the Vltava River in a restored and expanded stone mill, the museum opened in June 2002 but closed soon after, due to damage caused by that summer's devastating flooding of the Danube and its tributaries [see "Front Page," Oct. '02].
The museum is home to the Jan and Meda Meladek Foundation and its collection of more than 2,000 works, which the foundation recently donated to the city of Prague. Outstanding among the Kampa's holdings is a group of over 200 paintings and works on paper by the seminal Czech abstractionist Frantisek Kupka, selections of which will be on permanent display. The museum also features 18 major bronzes from the early decades of the 20th century by Czech artist Otto Gutfreund, one of Eastern Europe's first Cubist sculptors. Among the Kampa's more recent works is a collection of some 240 pieces by poet and collage artist Jiri Kolar. More information about the museum and its exhibition schedule can be found on its Web site (www.museumkampa.cz).
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