A new feature has been published on the CODART website.

The Moravian Gallery in Brno holds one of the Czech Republic’s most significant collections of Dutch and Flemish art. Built over two centuries through noble bequests, civic art societies, and major private collectors, the collection ranges from Rubens’s iconic Head of Medusa to rare Northern drawings, offering a fascinating window into Netherlandish art in Central Europe.

“The Moravian Gallery in Brno is the second-largest art museum in the Czech Republic. Operating across three historical exhibition buildings in the heart of Brno, the institution also oversees affiliated branches. The Gallery was established in 1961 through the merger of the Picture Gallery of the Moravian Museum, founded as the Franzens Museum in 1817, and Brno’s Moravian Museum of Applied Arts, founded in 1873 as the oldest museum of its kind in the Czech lands. Today, the Moravian Gallery is a state institution that holds over 200.000 collection items from the sphere of fine and applied arts, design and fashion, photography, and graphic design. (…)” Continue reading…

CODARTfeatures

Published monthly, features provide information on new curatorial developments, current projects, collections of Dutch and Flemish art in museums worldwide, as well as insight into the work of the museum curator.

Last month’s feature was A Legacy in Line: The Seger Bequest at the National Gallery of Canada by Sonia Del Re. To browse all features, visit codart.nl/features.