Topic: Art Nouveau (11 records)

Bedřich Bendelmayer

Czech architect of the first half of the 20^th century, foremost representative of Art Nouveau and Neo-Classicism, author of many public buildings.

Alois Dryák

Czech architect of the first half of the 20^th century, author of the Great Strahov Stadium, sports venue with the largest area in the world.

Josef Fanta

Czech architect, interior designer, teacher and one of the most important representatives of Czech Art Nouveau.

Jan Kotěra

Modernist architect, city planner, designer and theoretician of architecture of international renown, who became the founder of Czech modernist architecture.

Legion Bridge

A bridge spanning the river Vltava, built in 1901. It connects Národní třída with the Lesser Quarter, over Střelecký Island.

Otakar Novotný

Czech architect, designer, editor and university teacher, whose most significant work is the building of the Mánes Association of Fine Artists in Prague.

Friedrich Ohmann

Austrian architect, city planner and prominent university teacher who worked in Prague and influenced a whole generation of Czech architects.

The largest cemetery in Prague. It consists of 12 burial areas covering an area of 50 hectares. Its architecture, historical importance, size and the diversity of people buried there make it an important monument of funeral culture in the Czech Republic.

Osvald Polívka

Czech Neo-Renaissance and Art Nouveau architect, drawer and city planner, author of important public buildings in Prague.

Vyšehrad cemetery and the Slavín tomb

Important monument of Czech burial culture. It has been regarded as the burial place of the national elite since the end of the 19^th century. Its importance for Czech culture is comparable to Novodevichy cemetery in Moscow or the Parisian cemetery Pére Lachaise.

Josef Zasche

Prominent architect and city planner of German origin, working mostly in Bohemia in the first half of the 20^th century.