Josef Gočár, our most prominent author of mainly cubist and functionalist buildings, was born in a family of a brewer in a small village of Semín near Přelouč on 13th March 1880. After a year the family had moved to a nearby spa town Bohdaneč, where Josef later created several smaller, but as well significant buildings.
At fi rst he studied at the Grammar School in Pardubice and from 1902 at the School of Applied arts in Prague in the atelier of Jan Kotěra, where he worked after his graduation. In 1908 he became an independent architect and a member of the Union of Architects, he participated actively in the club activities and published in professional journals. In 1923 he was appointed Professor of Architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, where in 1928–1932 he also held the post of the rector. Josef Gočár designed buildings, as well as furniture, monuments and small architecture. He implemented most of his works of art in Prague, but also in Hradec Králové, which became the urbanistic example of the up-to-date city. In 1925 he was awarded the Grand Prix for the design of the Czechoslovak Pavilion in Paris and a year later the French National Order of the Legion of Honour. Among his greatest accomplishments there are the House of the Black Madonna, the building of Legiobanka and the Church of St. Wenceslaus in Prague, the Spa House in Bohdaneč, the Wenke Department Store in Jaroměř or the Winternitz mills in Pardubice.
Josef Gočár dies before his 66th birthday, on 10th September 1945 in Jičín.
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