Jiří Kroha

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Jiří Kroha (born June 5, 1893 in Prague , † June 7, 1974 in Prague) was a Czech architect and university professor.

Life

Jiří Kroha studied architecture at the Czech Technical University in Prague from 1911 to 1918 (Professor Jan Koula, Professor Josef Fanta , Professor Rudolf Kříženecký)

Own house in Brno
House in the settlement Nový Dům (The new house)
Jiří Kroha, Václav Roštlapil: vestibul Teoretických ústavů Lékařské fakulty Univerzity Palackého v Olomouci
  • 1919–1925: Architect in Prague, theater designs for the "Socialist Stage"
  • 1922: Member of the Architects' Club
  • 1925–1953: Professor of Architecture at the Czech Technical University in Brno
  • 1925–1928: architectural office in Mladá Boleslav (Jung Bunzlau)
  • 1927–1933: Editor of the magazine Horizont in Brno as a discussion platform for current trends in culture and especially architecture.
  • 1930: Study trip to the USSR. Founding member of the architectural section of the Left Front ( Levá fronta )
  • 1933: Founding member and chairman of the Association of Socialist Architects in Prague
  • 1934: sentenced to three months in prison for his communist activities and suspended from professorship at the Czech Technical University
  • 1937: return to the technical university
  • 1939–1940: arrested by the Gestapo, Spielberg prison in Brno, Dachau and Buchenwald concentration camps
  • 1940: released because of severe hearing loss
  • 1945: After the Second World War , Kroha mainly devotes himself to the design of exhibitions and painting.
  • 1947–1948: Main designer for the Slavic Agricultural Exhibition in Prague.
  • 1948: National artist, at the same time he builds his architectural master studio in Prague
  • 1970: Honorary doctorate from the Czech Technical University in Brno.

Selected structures

  • 1918: Design of the Montmartre bar in Prague
  • 1920–1925: Officials' villas in Kosmonosy
  • 1922–1927: State Trade School in Mladá Boleslav
  • 1924–1925: Social Welfare Institute in Mladá Boleslav
  • 1926–1927: Overall planning of the North Bohemian Exhibition ( Výstava severních Čech ) in Mladá Boleslav
  • 1927: Restaurant at the North Bohemian Exhibition in Mladá Boleslav
  • 1928: Project for Pavilon Člověk a jeho rod for the exhibition of contemporary culture of Czechoslovakia in Brno in 1928.
  • 1927–1928: House in the Brno Werkbundsiedlung Nový Dům (The New House)
  • 1928–1931: own house in Brno, Sedlákova 45
  • 1928–1931: Draft house for the Werkbundsiedlung Prague "Na Babě".
  • 1934–1935: Brno Villa Patočka, Kaplanova 11
  • 1946–1948: Sídliště Tábor 40–50 in Brno (together with Vilém Kuba and Josef Polášek )
  • 1950–1961: Theoretical Institute of the Medical Faculty of the Univerzita Palackého in Olomouc

literature

  • Jiri Kroha . With an introduction by Jaroslav B. Svrcek. Verlag Meister der Baukunst, Geneva 1930
  • The Brno Functionalists - Catalog for an exhibition at the Czech National Museum in Prague, 1985.

Web links

Commons : Jiří Kroha  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wasmuth's monthly magazine for architecture, issue 11/1930.
  2. ^ Brno - sídliště Tábor.
  3. ↑ with Václav Roštlapil (1901–1979) nephew of the architect Václav Roštlapil (1856–1930).
personal data
SURNAME Kroha, Jiří
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech architect and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH June 5, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague
DATE OF DEATH June 7th 1974
Place of death Prague