Hana Kučerová-Záveská

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Hana Kučerová-Záveská (born March 21, 1904 in Prague , † November 7, 1944 in Stockholm ) was a Czechoslovak architect and designer . In the early 1930s she realized architectural designs in the Werkbundsiedlung Baba in Prague. She designed numerous functional pieces of furniture for private and public clients. Despite her early death, Hana Kučerová-Záveská was one of the most important exponents of modernism and functionalism in Czechoslovakia.

life and work

Villa Suk, Werkbundsiedlung Baba (built 1932)
Seating of the Barrandov-Terrassen excursion restaurant with tubular steel furniture

Hana Záveská was born on March 21, 1904 as the second daughter of the bank clerk Maxmilián Záveský and his wife Olga, nee. Wellner born in Prague. After completing school, she began studying at the Academy of Art, Architecture and Design in Prague in 1922 . Her teachers included the architect and glass artist Karel Štipl and the sculptor Josef Mařatka . In 1924 she switched to the architecture class, which was directed by Pavel Janák . During her studies, she designed the furniture for her sister Olga's house, which was largely influenced by the puristic and functional concept of the Bauhaus .

After graduating in 1927, she initially worked as an interior architect and designer in Prague. Hana Záveská had been a member of the Czechoslovak Werkbund (Svazu československého díla) since 1928, for which she designed a model apartment and furnished it with her own furniture designs. She successfully participated in various exhibitions, u. a. at the exhibition of contemporary culture and the exhibition of modern women in Brno and at the exhibition The table in Prague. The success at the exhibitions brought her into contact with renowned furniture manufacturers such as the Artěl cooperative , Robert Slezák and the furniture company Vereinigte Kunstgewerbe AG (UP-Werke, Brno), who manufactured their furniture in small and large series. In 1928 she married the lawyer Vladimír Kučera.

In 1929 she was commissioned to design tubular steel furniture for outdoor use for the Barrandov Terraces restaurant in Prague . The designs for the tubular steel folding chairs and tables were so successful that the Hynek Gottwald furniture factory decided to produce these models for many years. In addition, she published in numerous art and design magazines such as Eva, Pestrý týden and Výtvarné snahy.

At the beginning of the 1930s she was invited by Pavel Janák as the only architect to design a contribution to the Baba Werkbundsiedlung in Prague. She designed a modern functionalist villa (Na Babě 5) for the composer and poet Karel Balling. She furnished some buildings in the estate with simple, functional and high-quality furniture. Among other things, she designed convertible built-in and kitchen furniture. In the purist Villa Na ostrohu 49 realized for Antonie and Václav Suk, she realized Le Corbusier's architectural design concept .

In March 1937 her husband was called to Sweden as the Czechoslovak ambassador . Hana Kučerová-Záveská moved to Stockholm with her family. Here she worked with the Swedish architect Ingeborg Waern Bugge. The two architects had been running a joint office since 1939.

Hana Kučerová-Záveská died after a brief illness at the age of 40 on November 7, 1944 in Stockholm.

Works (selection)

Villa Balling, Werkbundsiedlung Baba (built 1932)
  • Design for the tomb of Anna Havličková, Prague, (1924)
  • Villa Balling, Werkbundsiedlung Baba , (1932)
  • Villa Suk, Werkbundsiedlung Baba, (1932)
  • Interior design of Maximilian Záveský's house, Dobřichovice (1934)
  • Furniture series for the Barrandov terrace restaurant, realized by the Hynek Gottwald furniture factory, Usti nad Orlici (1929)
  • Cantilever chair for the Hynek Gottwald furniture factory, (1930)
  • Furniture designs for the Lojda company in Prague-Libeň

literature

  • H. Pfejferová: Hana Kučerová-Záveská, žena-architekt v meziválečné avantgarde, Master's thesis Charles University Prague, 2005
  • S. Tempel: Baba: the Werkbund Housing Estate Prague, 1932 / Die Werkbundsiedlung Prague, 1932 , Bale-Boston-Berlin, Birkhäuser, 1999

Web links

Commons : Hana Kučerová-Záveská  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e NasRegion.cz: Architektka Hana Kučerová - Záveská. Její nábytek plnil příbytky našich předků a prapředků. November 7, 2019, accessed April 1, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b Marjan Groot, Helena Seražin, Caterina Franchini, Emilia Garda, Alenka Di Battista (eds.): MoMoWo Women designers, craftswomen, architects and engineers between 1918 and 1945 . Založba ZRC, Ljubljana 2017, ISBN 978-961-05-0033-9 , p. 407 ff .
  3. ↑ a b Tiscali.cz: Jedna z prvních českých architektek, která se prosadila mezi muži. Retrieved April 1, 2020 (Czech).
  4. ↑ Michaela Bosewitz: Czech tubular steel furniture: Thonet-Mundus, Gottwald, Mücke-Melder, Slezák, Vichr, UP . 2nd Edition. Norderstedt 2019, ISBN 978-3-7494-8591-8 , pp. 94 ff .
  5. ^ Přemysl Veverka et. al .: Slavné pražské vily . 3. Edition. Foibos, Praha 2007, ISBN 978-80-87073-01-8 , p. 143 ff .
  6. ↑ Hana Kučerová-Záveská's Work Presented at the Royal Institute of Art. Accessed on 1 April 2020 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Kučerová-Záveská, Hana
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Záveská, Hana (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czechoslovak architect and designer
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague
DATE OF DEATH November 7, 1944
Place of death Stockholm