Jindrich Halabala

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Jindřich Halabala (born May 24, 1903 in Koryčany , Margraviate Moravia , Austria-Hungary ; † November 18, 1978 in Brno , Czechoslovak Socialist Republic ) was a Czech furniture designer and university professor . The design of his furniture significantly shaped the appearance of Czech households in the inter - and post - war period .

Life

Jindřich Halabala trained as a cabinet maker in his father Štěpán's carpentry workshop . From 1920 he attended the state wood processing school in Valašské Meziříčí . He completed his practical studies at his future employer, the woodworking company Spojené uměleckoprůmyslové závody (UP) in Brno. At that time Jan Vaněk was the leading designer here. From 1923 to 1926 Halabala studied with Pavel Janák at the Academy of Applied Arts in Prague .

After a brief employment in Bohumil Hübschmann's atelier in Prague, he initially managed the UP subsidiary there until he was offered the management of the company's design studio in Brno. Here he was soon promoted to the company's lead designer; a position he held until 1964. In the late 1920s, UP began manufacturing a collection of furniture put together by Halabala. With Halabala's designs, UP produced modular and affordable quality furniture in the interwar period and after the Second World War . He developed the basic model series H and E, various wooden seats and tubular steel furniture. Its production program was groundbreaking for the industrial production of furniture in Czechoslovakia. Until 1946 he also held positions such as authorized signatory and managing director in the UP company. During his time, UP had become the largest furniture manufacturer in the country.

Halabala designed several dozen pieces of furniture, including chairs, tables, sideboards, chests of drawers, flower stands, coffee tables and lamps. His chairs with frames made of bent steel tubes and his club armchairs were particularly popular. Halabala's work is considered to be the link between innovative Czech Cubism from 1910, Art Deco in the early 1920s and the modern European mid-century of the years after the Second World War. His commercially successful designs were strongly based on the design language of the Bauhaus .

Halabala published regularly in professional magazines and in the general press. From 1951 to 1954 he was a lecturer at the Faculty of Forest and Wood Technology at the Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice . In 1954 he was appointed associate professor and a year later full professor at the Technical University of Zvolen , where he headed the scientific research institute. In 1970 he went into retirement. Halabala was also chairman of the Association of Furniture Manufacturers of Czechoslovakia.

Some of Halabala's designs are exhibited in the collections of the Moravská Gallery in Brno and the Museum of Modern Art in Olomouc . In the art market , there is still demand for designer furniture by Halabala.

family

In 1927 Halabala married Pavla Sekerková. Their marriage resulted in two sons in 1929 and 1935.

Exhibitions

  • Jindřich Halabala and United Arts and Crafts Manufacture (UP), 2003
  • Jindřich Halabala and Unified Corporations of Applied Arts in Brno, 2003
  • Professor Jindrich Halabala Price, 2006

Publications

  • Together with Josefem Poláškem: Jak si zařídit byt levně, moderně, hygienicky , 1935
  • Sestavovací nábytek , 1940
  • Výroba nábytku, tvorba a Konstrukce , 1960
  • Manufacture of furniture. Conceptual design and construction. VEB Fachbuchverlag, Leipzig 1978, 309 pp.

literature

  • Jindřich Chatrný, Anežka Šimková, Dagmar Koudelková: Jindřich Halabala a Spojené uměleckoprůmyslové závody v Brně. ERA, 2003. ISBN 8-08651-765-9 , 135 pages, in Czech.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b interiery: Jindřich Halabala a slavný český nábytek. from July 1, 2014, in the Czech language.
  2. ^ Prague Art & Design: Jindřich Halabala , in English.
  3. ↑ a b c d designaddict: Jindřich Halabala from March 22, 2004, in English.
  4. ↑ a b c Jindřich Chatrný, czechdesign: Životopis Jindřicha Halabaly from April 24, 2003, in the Czech language.
  5. ^ HFH Gallery: Jindřich Halabala. Designer of the Vienna Secession. ( Memento from January 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Halabala, Jindřich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech furniture designer
DATE OF BIRTH May 24, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Koryčany , Margraviate Moravia , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH November 18, 1978
Place of death Brno , Czechoslovak Socialist Republic