Jan Kotěra

Jan Kotěra

1923 portrait by Vladimír Jindřich Bufka
Born 18 December 1871
Brno, Czechoslovakia
Died 17 April 1923(1923-04-17) (aged 51)
Prague, Czechoslovakia
Residence Trmalova Villa
Nationality Czech
Known for Architecture

Jan Kotěra (18 December 1871 – 17 April 1923) was a Czech architect, artist and interior designer, and one of the key figures of modern architecture in Bohemia.

Biography

Kotěra was born in Brno, the largest city in Moravia, to a Czech father and German-speaking mother. He studied architecture in Vienna during the waning days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire under the Viennese master Otto Wagner.[1]

Kotěra returned to Prague in 1897 to help found a dynamic movement of Czech nationalist artists and architects centered around the Mánes Union of Fine Arts. Strongly influenced by the work of the Vienna Secession, his work bridged late nineteenth-century architectural design and early modernism. Kotěra collaborated with Czech sculptors Jan Štursa, Stanislav Sucharda, and Stanislav's son Vojtěch Sucharda on a number of buildings.

As a teacher, Kotěra trained a generation of Czech architects, including Josef Gočár, who would bring Czech modernism to its pinnacle in the years leading up to the Nazi occupation in 1939.

Works

Gallery

References

  1. Pevsner, Nikolaus, Sir James Maude Richards & Dennis Sharp (2000). The anti-rationalists and the rationalists, Architectural Press, p. 106. ISBN 0-7506-4815-5
  2. Jan Kotěra, 1871-1923:the founder of modern Czech architecture. Municipal House. 2001.
  3. Cultural Movement, Foibos.cz, retrieved 4 November 2013

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