Gallery of Fine Arts in Cheb
The Gallery of Fine Arts in Cheb (GAVU Cheb) is an art museum focusing on 19th- and 20th-century art, as well as the Gothic art of the historical Egerland region. It is located in Cheb, on the western border of the Czech Republic, in the New Town Hall Palace designed by architect Giovanni Battista Alliprandi. The building houses several exhibition spaces: the second floor contains the collection of Gothic sculpture, the Great Gallery, which focuses on major exhibition projects, and the Opus Magnum exhibition format, which presents exceptional works of Czech and international art; the first floor houses the permanent collection of 19th- and 20th-century Czech art; and the ground floor contains the Small Gallery, which focuses on works by artists of the younger and middle generations, the museum café, a room for exhibitions of modern Czech illustration, and a lecture hall.
Now on view
4 exhibitions
Illustrations for the three-part dystopian series about robots
Veronika Lochmanová
Book designer and illustrator Jindřich Janíček (1990) graduated from Tomáš Baťa University in Zlín and the Illustration Studio at UMPRUM in Prague. He has twice won the Czech Grand Design Award and is also the recipient…
Small architecture. Furniture and interior design of Dřevopodnik Holešov
Klára Jeništová
A little-known regional manufacturer grew to become one of the leading Czechoslovak furniture companies in the second half of the 20th century. The key figure in this story is the architect and founder of Dřevopodnik…
Hidden Corners of Cheb
Anna Habánová
Rudolf Karasek (1895–1986) was one of the German-speaking visual artists from Bohemia. Over the course of three years (1913–1916), he studied at the Prague Academy under Josef Laukota, Vlaho Bukovac, and Franz Thiele.…
Jan Smetana in the GAVU Cheb Collection
Jiří Gordon, Jana Pokorná Kalousková, Jiri Gordon, Jana Pokorna Kalouskova
Jan Smetana in the GAVU Cheb Collection -
Opening soon
2 upcoming
Breakfast in Kaiserwald and Other Stories
Although Martin Kaiser (1971) and Dalibor Nesnídal (1954) now live in the countryside, they spent many years working in Karlovy Vary, where they were important figures in the local cultural scene—not only in the visual…
In Defiance. The Exhibition of Mikuláš Medek and Jan Koblasa in Teplice in 1963
The project explores the legendary exhibition by Mikuláš Medek and Jan Koblasa, featuring works by both artists from 1959–1963 as well as newly discovered photographs by Jiří Hampl. The exhibition, which took place in…
