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Inspired by a quote from an Agatha Christie Poirot novel on another thread that mentions Czechoslovak industry in the 1930's I thought I'd start a thread dedicated to the relatively unknown history of Czech Cubism and Modernism. This is a subject I only started reading about last year when myself and my family visited friends who have relocated from the UK to a town just south of Prague.
Cubist art, especially the work of Picasso and Braque, was hugely influential on a small group of architects based in Prague in 1910. Pavel Jan?ɬ°k, Josef Goc?ɬ°r, Josef Chochol and Vlastislav Hofman took the concepts of Cubist painting and applied them to buildings, furniture and decorative objects. The first Cubist building was Goc?ɬ°rs House At the Black Madonna, completed in 1912:
This was originally a department store, but today houses a Cubist shop called Kubista, and The Museum of Czech Cubism.
Others followed with the most interesting being designed by Josef Chochol - in 1912/13 this house:
and in 1913/14 this apartment building:
Detail of the windows:
Cubist objects appeared as early as 1911 including this crystalline box by Pavel Jan?ɬ°k:
...and these fantastic vases, also by Janak, which still look startlingly modern, nearly 100 years on:
...and this coffee set, again by Janak:
From the same year there's the Hofman Chair, designed by Vlastislav Hofman:
(Images from http://www.modernista.cz)
The Cubist movement died out during World War 1 but echoes were still to be found post-WW1 in new buildings by Goc?ɬ°r and Jan?ɬ°k.
Cubist art, especially the work of Picasso and Braque, was hugely influential on a small group of architects based in Prague in 1910. Pavel Jan?ɬ°k, Josef Goc?ɬ°r, Josef Chochol and Vlastislav Hofman took the concepts of Cubist painting and applied them to buildings, furniture and decorative objects. The first Cubist building was Goc?ɬ°rs House At the Black Madonna, completed in 1912:
This was originally a department store, but today houses a Cubist shop called Kubista, and The Museum of Czech Cubism.
Others followed with the most interesting being designed by Josef Chochol - in 1912/13 this house:
and in 1913/14 this apartment building:
Detail of the windows:
Cubist objects appeared as early as 1911 including this crystalline box by Pavel Jan?ɬ°k:
...and these fantastic vases, also by Janak, which still look startlingly modern, nearly 100 years on:
...and this coffee set, again by Janak:
From the same year there's the Hofman Chair, designed by Vlastislav Hofman:
(Images from http://www.modernista.cz)
The Cubist movement died out during World War 1 but echoes were still to be found post-WW1 in new buildings by Goc?ɬ°r and Jan?ɬ°k.
