František Lydie Gahura

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Church of St. Anthony of Padua in Míškovice

František Lydie Gahura (* 10. October 1891 in Kudlov ; † 15. September 1958 in Brno / Brno) was a Czech architect and visual artist .

Live and act

Gahura trained as a plasterer and initially studied sculpture at the art school in Prague from 1910 to 1914. From 1914 to 1917 he studied architecture with Josef Plečnik and from 1919 to 1923 with Jan Kotěra . As a result, Gahura became house architect for the Baťa company in his hometown of Zlín, where he worked until 1946.

Gahura combined artistic sensitivity with the new tendencies of rationalism and functionalism in architecture. From around 1919 - still clearly influenced by Expressionism - Gahura turned to Le Corbusier's ideas through Kotěra and found an ideal partner and client in Tomáš Baťa . Gahura's best buildings in Zlín are characterized by their modular, transparent frame construction. His box-like single-family houses appear less convincing. Gahura's portrait sculptures by the Baťa brothers are conventionally realistic. Gahura laid down his theoretical convictions in the book Estetika architektury (1943). Gahura was together with Vladimír Karfík (1901-1996) the founder of the urban and architectural tradition of Zlín.

Because of his close contacts with the Baťa family, Gahura had to leave his place of work in Zlín in 1946 and subsequently worked in Brno. His life was overshadowed by the tragedy of losing two children to a hereditary disease. He found his final resting place in the Zlín forest cemetery .

Works (selection)

  • Zlín Town Hall, 1920–1923
  • Church of St. Anthony of Padua in Míškovice , 1922–1927
  • Baťa Hospital, Zlín, 1927–1936 (co-author)
  • Zlín Hospital, 1927–1930
  • Baťa department store, Zlín, 1929–1932
  • Masaryk School Zlín, 1928
  • Villa Dr. Sázel, Trenčín , Slovakia 1929–1930
  • Zlín Forest Cemetery , 1930–1932
  • Great Cinema, Zlín, 1931–1932

literature

  • Vladimír Šlapeta: Bata - Architecture and Urbanism 1910–1950 . Statní galerie ve Zlíně, Zlín 1992.

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personal data
SURNAME Gahura, František Lydie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech architect and visual artist
DATE OF BIRTH October 10, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Zlín
DATE OF DEATH September 15, 1958
Place of death Brno