Josef Zitek

Josef von Zítek

Zitek's grave

Josef Zítek , also Josef von Zitek or Joseph Zitek (born April 4, 1832 in Karolinenthal , † August 2, 1909 in Prague ), was a Czech architect .

Life

Zítek studied at the Polytechnic in Prague and Vienna as well as at the Prague Academy . He was a representative of the Vienna New Renaissance and the late Northern Italian Renaissance, with Bohemian influence always visible. Zítek was later a professor at the Polytechnic in Prague and a member of the Vienna Academy . Among his students were Josef Fanta and Alfred Bayer .

After the fire at the National Theater, Zítek retired to Lčovice in 1881 . In the same year he married Berta Lippert, the daughter of the castle owner Marie Leopoldina Lippert, from whom he bought the castle and estate Lčovice with Zálezly in 1883 . Zítek was made a baron by the emperor. After his death, Lčovice Castle belonged to the sons Josef and Berthold Zítek until 1926. His grave is in the Malenice cemetery .

buildings

1862: Restoration of the Bečov Castle
1863–1868: New Museum Weimar .
1865–1881: National Theater in Prague, which was rebuilt by Josef Schulz after the fire .
1871–1874: Mill Colonnade in Karlsbad .
1876–1881: Rudolfinum in Prague (together with Josef Schulz).
1882: School in Zálezly
from 1883: reconstruction of the chateau in Lčovice

photos

Weimar New Museum
Weimar New Museum
National Theater
view from 1881 ( woodcut )
National
Theater stage
Rudolfinum in Prague
Dvořák Hall in the Rudolfinum
Mill Colonnade in Karlovy Vary
Mill Colonnade in Karlovy Vary

literature

Constantin von Wurzbach : Zitek, Joseph . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 60th part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1891, p. 184 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

Commons : Josef Zítek - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Literature by and about Josef Zítek in the catalog of the German National Library
Josef Zitek. In: arch INFORM .

Individual evidence

↑ Emanuel Poche (red.): Encyklopedie českého výtvarného umění , Praha 1975, s. 577
^ Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon, Volume 20. Leipzig 1909, p. 962 .: Zitek, Joseph Zeno
↑ Archiform Josef Zítek
↑ Zamek Lčovice (Czech) (accessed July 2019)

personal data
SURNAME	Zitek, Josef
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Zitek, Josef von; Zitek, Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Czech architect
DATE OF BIRTH	April 4, 1832
PLACE OF BIRTH	Prague
DATE OF DEATH	2nd August 1909
Place of death	Prague

[1] Emanuel Poche (red.): Encyklopedie českého výtvarného umění , Praha 1975, s. 577

[2] Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon, Volume 20. Leipzig 1909, p. 962 .: Zitek, Joseph Zeno

[3] Archiform Josef Zítek

[4] Zamek Lčovice (Czech) (accessed July 2019)