Jan Víšek

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Jan Víšek (born May 13, 1890 in Božejovice ( Jistebnice municipality , South Bohemia); † June 6, 1966 in Brno ) was a Czech architect and university professor.

Detached house Professor Josef Kudela in Brno
House of prayer of the Czechoslovak Church in Brno
Šilhanovo sanatorium Brno Veveří

Life

Jan Víšek studied architecture at the Czech Technical University in Prague from 1909 to 1914 . During the First World War he was called up for military service on the Russian, Italian and Slovak fronts on the side of the Austro-Hungarian Army .

From 1920 to 1923 he was assistant to Prof. Theodor Petřik at the Institute for Agricultural Buildings at the Agricultural University in Prague . In 1923 he became a member of the Czech Club of Architects and worked until 1924 as a salaried architect in the State Real Estate Management (Státní pozemkový úřad) in Prague. The following year he was involved in the construction of Masaryk University in Brno and in 1925 became secretary of the Brno section of the Architects' Club.

Brno plant

From 1926 to 1949 Víšek worked as a freelance architect in Brno. In 1929 he became a member of the INDEX group , in 1935 he was a member of the Czechoslovak group that took part in the Congrès International d'Architecture Moderne (CIAM).

After the Second World War, Víšek became an associate professor for cultural buildings at the Czech Technical University in Prague (1945-1948), after the communist revolution in February he was banned from teaching due to his membership in a Masonic lodge and worked until 1958 as an employee in the state planning office Stavoprojekt in Brno .

Appreciation

Jan Víšek was an important representative of the Brno School of Functionalism . The Jan Hus prayer house of the Czechoslovak Church , the Luxor department store and residential building in Bratislava , the family house of the Kudela family and the Šilhan sanatorium in Brno are among his most important projects .

Selected buildings in Brno

  • 1925–1926: Professor Kudela family house, Jirásek district, Klácelova 8
  • 1927–1928: Two-family house in the Werkbundsiedlung Nový Dům (The New House) , Jirásek Forest, Drnovická 8-10 (changed)
  • 1927–1929: House of prayer of the Hussite, today Czechoslovak Church , Botanická 1 (Husův sbor církve československé v Brně)
  • 1929–1930: Commercial and residential building, Jánská 7
  • 1932–1935: Sanatorium Dr. Šilhán (carried out in two stages), Veveří 125
  • 1936–1937: tenement house with ordination, Mášova 10
  • 1937–1938: Apartment building with pastry shop Kolbaba ( Kolbabova kavárna ), Kounicova (formerly Leninova ) 15

Literature, source

Web links

Commons : Jan Víšek  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Church of the Hussite Congregation
  2. ↑ Sanatorium Dr. Silhana
  3. ↑ Znovuotevření Kolbabovy kavárny
personal data
SURNAME Víšek, Jan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech architect and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH May 13, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Božejovice ( Jistebnice municipality , okres Tábor , South Bohemia), Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH June 6, 1966
Place of death Brno , Czechoslovakia