Josef Sudek Gallery, Photography museum in Hradčany district, Prague, Czech Republic
The Josef Sudek Gallery occupies the Hradčany flat in the house U Luny, also called U Kamenného sloupu, at Úvoz 24, where photographer Josef Sudek lived from 1959 until his death in 1976. Run by the Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague, the rooms hold his photographs and the paintings, frames, goblets, boxes and photographic tools that filled the space.
Josef Sudek lived in the Hradčany house U Luny at Úvoz 24 from 1959 until his death in 1976. Between 1978 and 1988 much of his photographic estate passed to the Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague, which took over the flat in 1989 and opened the gallery there in 1995.
The gallery occupies the Hradčany flat in the house U Luny, also called U Kamenného sloupu, where Josef Sudek lived from 1959 until his death in 1976. The rooms filled with paintings, frames, goblets, boxes and photographic tools were where he made compositions from the cycles Aviatic Remembrances, Easter Remembrances, Labyrinths and Glass Labyrinths. The flat was a meeting place for the poet Jaroslav Seifert, the painter Jan Zrzavý and the architect Otto Rothmayer.
The gallery occupies Josef Sudek's former flat in the house U Luny (also called U Kamenného sloupu) at Úvoz 24, near Hradčany. Sudek lived here from 1959 until his death in 1976, and the rooms still hold the paintings, frames, goblets, boxes and photographic tools that filled them during his lifetime.
Sudek lost his right arm during World War I, which directly shaped how he held and operated his camera throughout his entire career in this studio. He adapted by using a tripod almost exclusively, which gave his photographs their characteristic stillness.
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