Jan Kotěra (December 18th 1871, Brno – April 17th 1923, Prague) is an architect Austro-Hungarian, one of the major figures of modernity in architecture in Bohemia.
He is first of all the pupil of Otto Wagner and Sécession Viennese influences it is perceptible in her first achievements (1898-1905). He is member of the artistic Cercle Mánes of 1898 with his death, in 1923.
In 1903, he travels to the United States, visits the World Fair of Saint Louis (Missouri) and takes note of the work of Frank Lloyd Wright. To the return, it passes by England and Holland and discovers the brick architecture which it introduces, in parallel with the dynamism of space suitable for Wright, in Bohemia. Thus the period (1906-1912) most creative of its career opens. As a teacher within the School of the applied arts of Prague, it trains the architects Otakar Novotný and Josef Gočár and the project superintendents Fuchs, Krejcar and Benš as can one say as he is the father of modernity in Czechoslovakia.
Its works touches with all the aspects of creation: graphics, town planning (for Hradec Králové, undertaken continued by Josef Gočár post-war period), furniture, glassmaking, industrial plant (trams), industrial architecture and of dwelling, painting, etc
Works
- Museum of Western Bohemia, Hradec Králové, (1908 - 1912)
- Peterka House, Prague (1899 - 1900)
- Villa of Tomáš Baťa, Zlín
- Design of the Faculty of Law of the University Charles of Prague (1924 - 1927)
- Real, street Politických věznů, Prague
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External bonds
- Pages of the Museum of Hradec Králové
- List of its achievements {{Cs}}
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