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Brno Cemetery (Central Cemetery)

The largest cemetery in Brno. A culturally important place of burial of many Moravian artists and intellectuals. An architecturally important example of interwar functionalism in Brno.

Devětsil Union of Modern Culture

Important avant-garde association of writers, theoreticians, architects, theatre artists and fine artists. It organised different cultural events, mostly in the spirit of left-wing politics.

Alois Dryák

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

Josef Gočár

Prominent Czech architect, city planner and designer, a founding figure of Czech modern architecture.

Josef Chochol

Prominent Czech Cubist architect, city planner, designer and theoretician of architecture from the first half of the 20th century.

Pavel Janák

Prominent Czech architect and theoretician, one of the cofounders of Czech modernist architecture.

National Monument at Vítkov

A functionalist monument on top of Vítkov Hill in Prague. It is one of the dominant features of modern Prague architecture. It includes one of the largest bronze equestrian statues in the world.

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.

Karel Teige

Theoretician and aesthetician, a leading figure of Czech left Avant-Garde, sociologist of architecture, fine artist, literary critic, publicist and translator. He was a founder of Poetism and pioneered the acceptance of Surrealism.

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