Emil Králík

Emil Králík

Emil Králík (born February 21, 1880 in Prague ; † June 26, 1946 there ) was a Czech architect .

Life

Králík studied architecture at the Czech Technical University in Prague from 1899–1904 under Professor Josef Schultz . While still at the university, he worked from 1903 to 1904 in the building department of the Prague City Council.

After completing his studies in 1904, he became an assistant to Professor Jan Koula at the Technical University in the Institute for Architectural and Ornamental Drawing, while also working in the studio of Osvald Polívkas and Antonín Balšánek in Prague. In 1906 he finished this work.

From 1906 to 1920 Králík was a professor at the Building Trade School in Brno and a freelance architect in Brno. From 1906 to 1909 he worked on the project and construction of the city theater in Mladá Boleslav in collaboration with Professor Rudolf Kříženecký and the Viennese company Fellner und Helmer . From 1913 to 1914 he was the artistic director of the VULKANIA workshop in Prostějov and a founding member of the Czech Werkbund in Prague. In 1909 he founded the architecture department at the Czech Technical University in Brno . In 1920 he was accepted as a member of the Prague Architects' Club.

Municipal theater in Mladá Boleslav

Cinema, Brno Exhibition Center

After finishing his work at the building trade school, he was professor at the Institute for Architectural and Ornamental Drawing at the Technical University of Brno until 1939 . From 1925 to 1926 Králík was the chairman of the Brno section of the Club of Architects and from 1926 to 1928 the chief architect of the exhibition center in Brno.

The Nazi invasion of Czechoslovakia ended Králík's career. From 1942 to 1945 he was a prisoner in the concentration camp Svatobořice (German: Swatoborschitz), which he survived with poor health. He died the following year on June 26, 1946 in Prague at the age of 66 and was buried in the Brno Central Cemetery.

Selected buildings in Prostějov

• 1911: Františk Kovařík's house, nám. Padlých hrdinů
• 1910–1911: Josef Kovařík's house, Vojáčkově nám. č. 5

Selected buildings in Brno

• around 1918: Salla terrena was added to Villa Löwenstein, Mrštíkova, today Krondlova 8
• around 1921: tenement house, Kotlářská Masarykova čtvrť, Preslova 6
• 1924–1926: Regulation of Dominikanerplatz
• 1926–1928: Entrance building and theater with coffee house at the exhibition of contemporary culture , exhibition area, today the Brno Exhibition Center
• 1927–1928: Czechoslovakian Tobacco Director, Zábrdovice, Suchá, today Zubatého
• 1929–1930: District heating plant of the West Moravian Power Plants ZME, Špitálka 6
• 1930–1932: General Pension Fund, Burešova 20

Literature, source

• The Brno Functionalists - Catalog for an exhibition at the Czech National Museum in Prague, 1985