Bohuslav Fox

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Bohuslav Fox

Bohuslav Fuchs (born March 24, 1895 in Všechovice , Holešov district, † September 18, 1972 in Brno ) was a Czech architect and town planner .

Life

Fuchs first learned the craft of bricklayer , with which he also earned money from Jan Kotěra during his studies at the Brno Trade School and from 1916 at the Prague Academy of Fine Arts . The outstanding student was allowed to work in Kotěra's private studio for two years.

From the beginning of the 1920s, Fuchs worked as an architect in the Brno city administration and built numerous public and private buildings. Among other things, he took part in the 1928 Werkbund exhibition "Nový Dům" . He was also involved in the creation of the city's regulatory plan, which is still in force today. The most famous Fuchs buildings in Brno include the Zeman Café (1925, reconstructed in 1995) and the Avion Hotel , which was declared a national monument in 2010. In 1937 he planned the Green Frog thermal bath in Trenčianske Teplice, Slovakia .

Fuchs was also at the center of the Brno artistic avant-garde of the interwar period. From 1947 Fuchs was a professor at the Technical University of Brno , but at the end of the 1950s he was politically marginalized. Fuchs received numerous prizes and honors, and a memorial was erected for him on his hundredth birthday.

Selected structures

Pavilion at the Brno Exhibition Center
Cafe Zeman
Masaryk dormitory
Moravian Bank in Brno
  • 1923: Husovice, Mičkova family houses
  • 1923: Detached houses in the Jirásek district, Lerchova 1–9, Mahenova and Barvičova
  • 1923: Villa Marcha, Lerchova 29 (for the writer Jaroslav Marcha)
  • 1924: family houses in Brno Maloměřice, Dolnopolní
  • 1924: Primary school in Brno Maloměřice
  • 1924: Masná burza meat wholesale market (meat exchange)
  • 1925: Husovice kindergarten
  • 1925: Café Zeman ( Czech : Zemanova kavárna) in Na Kolišti Park, demolished in 1964, rebuilt in 1995
  • 1925–1926: Ceremonial hall in the city's central cemetery , Koněvova 198 (together with Josef Polášek)
  • 1925–1926: Architectural design for the front wall of tenement houses on the corner of Kotlářská and Kounicova (formerly: Leninova)
  • 1925–1926: Group of emergency housing, Komárov, Hněvkovského
  • 1926: Elementary and community school, Křídlovická (completed in 1932 by Josef Polášek)
  • 1926–1928: Hotel Avion, Česká 20
  • 1927–1928: three-family house at the Werkbund exhibition Nový dům (The New House), Petřvaldská 6–10
  • 1927–1928: Brno City Pavilion at the Exhibition of Contemporary Culture, Brno Exhibition Center
  • 1927: Voženílek house, Brno-Obřany, Mlýnské nábřeží 15
  • 1927: HM House, Březinova
  • 1927–1928: Own house, Hvězdárenská 2
  • 1927: Reconstruction of the town bathing establishment, Kopečná
  • 1927: Radun, Viola and Iva guest houses in the White Quarter (Bílá čtvrť) in Luhačovice
  • 1929: Dagmar children's home , Zeleného 51
  • 1928–1930: Girls' Vocational School Vesna , Brno, Lípová 18 (together with Josef Polášek )
  • 1929–1930: Eliška Machová girls' home (boarding school: Domov Elišky Machové ), Lípová 16
  • 1929–1930: Masaryk dormitory, Cihlářská 21
  • 1929–1930: Moravian Bank, náměstí Svobody (Freedom Square) 21 (together with Arnošt Wiesner )
  • 1929–1931: Zábrdovice town bathing establishment, Klimentova 25
  • around 1930: Alfa Palace, Jánská 11–13
  • 1936: Villa Petrák , ulice Marie Pujmanové 4
  • 1936: Administration building of the Alpa company, Mercova 34
  • 1937: Villa Tesař , Hroznová 18
  • 1937: Former Military Land Command, Kounicova (formerly Leninova) 73–75
  • 1938: Station post office, Wilsonovo náměstí + Nádražní (Wilsonplatz + Bahnhofstrasse, today: Nádražní) 7
  • 1948–1949: Bus station at the Grand Hotel Brno (together with Konrád Hruban)

literature

  • Jan Sapak, Adolph Stiller (ed.): Bohuslav Fuchs, architect of the Czech avant-garde. 1895–1972 (= architecture in the Ringturm. Vol. 23). Müry Salzmann, Salzburg et al. 2010, ISBN 978-3-9901403-1-4 .
  • Interiors of a family house in Brno. Architect Bohuslav Fuchs. In: The Form. Vol. 5, 1930, No. 3, pp. 70-71.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ MfD: functionalist Hotel Avion in Brno is sold ( Memento of 8 April 2011 at the Internet Archive ) on Radio Praha retrieved from 29 March 2011 2 April 2011
  2. ↑ Nextroom.at accessed on February 28, 2010
  3. ↑ Pure Bauhaus: Hidden Treasure. In: Der Stern , April 4, 2006.
  4. ^ Hotel Avion in the Brno Architectural Manual.
  5. ^ Vesna girls' vocational school in the Brno Architectural Manual.
  6. ↑ Alpa office building. In: arch INFORM .

Web links

Commons : Bohuslav Fuchs  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
personal data
SURNAME Fox, Bohuslav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech architect and urban planner
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Všechovice
DATE OF DEATH September 18, 1972
Place of death Brno