Pavel JanÃ¡k

Pavel Janak ( born March 12, 1882 in Prague, † April 1, 1956 ) was a Czech architect.

Life

In the years 1899-1908 Pavel Janak studied at the Czech University in Prague, where he attended the lessons of Josef Zítek at the German pilot. In 1906 he went to Vienna with Otto Wagner conclude at the Academy of Fine Arts, the period of study. It also came to the first contact with the works of the architect Josef Hoffmann and Adolf Loos. After Janak returned to Prague, he was in the office of Jan Kotera active and involved as a member of the Artists' Union Manes also in the establishment of Künstlergenossenschaft Artěl. There he worked on developing a, in terms of style, own canon Czech Cubism for crafts and architecture together with a group of artisans and architects, such Gočár, Vlastislav Hofmann and Josef Chochol. Both references to the Czech Baroque and Gothic buildings to be incorporated into the design. When in 1911 several members of the Union of Artists of Manes left followed Pavel Janak and saw the establishment of the " Artists Group " ( Skupina výtvarných umelcu ). 1912 was Pavel Janak, next Gocár and Hofmann among the founders of the " Prague art workshop " (PUD ), which was founded in order to extend the design of everyday art of ceramic, glass and metal on the cubist furniture production. He was also involved in the 1914 founding of the Czech Werkbund, in which he should be 10 years later take over the presidency. In 1913, he and a number of other Czech artists of Herwarth Walden invited to the First German Autumn Salon in Berlin, where he showed two pen and ink drawings, and a pastel drawing with the design of the renovation of the town hall of German bread.

After the First World War ( 1918) Janak developed together with Gocár - from the efforts of national identity in the Czechoslovak Republic out - the " national style ". An important work from this period is the Adriatic Palace (1922-1924) in Prague. 1921 Pavel Janak was appointed to the School of Applied Arts in Prague, where he taught until 1942 as a professor. As Chairman of the Czech Werkbund he took over in 1928 the master plan and the planning of some buildings of the model house settlement Baba. From the mid-1930s, Janak turned more and more to the tasks of preservation to, where he learned his peak with his appointment as chief architect of Prague Castle. Through its involvement in this area he coined the working with historic buildings in the still new Czechoslovak Republic.

Projects

Adria Palace, Prague- New Town

Hlávka Bridge, Prague- Karlin; 1908-1912
Competition for the completion of the Old Town Hall, Prague- Old Town; 1909 ( project )
House Jakubec, Jicin; 1911-1912
Redesign of the south side of the town square of Pelhrimov Pelhrimov; 1912
House Drechsel, Pelhrimov; 1912
Reconstruction of the Town Hall in Německy Brod, Brod Havlíckuv; 1912-1913 (Project)
Competition for the design of Zizka Monument, Prague- Zizkov; 1913 ( project )
Weir with guard house, Predmeritz on the Elbe; 1913-1915 (1929 destroyed during floods )
Row house " colony of state employees ", Prague- Strasnice; 1919-1921
Café Julis, Prague- New Town; 1920-1921 (destroyed)
Villa Dr. Picka, Jaromere; 1920-1921
Crematorium of the cemetery in Pardubice, Pardubice; 1921-1923
Villa Horovský, Prague- Hodkovicky; 1921-1922
Adria Palace, Prague- New Town; 1922-1925
Studio houses, Prague- Orechovka; 1923-1924
Agricultural Museum, Bratislava; 1924-1925
Hotel Julis, Prague- New Town; 1927-1930
Framework plan for the show house settlement Baba; 1928-1934
Villa Janak (1931-1932), Dovolil (1932 ), Lindova ( 1933-1934 ) ( Werkbundsiedlung Baba )
Reconstruction and expansion of the Czernin Palace, Prague Hradschinvorstadt; 1928-1936
Reconstruction and rehabilitation of the Riding School, Prague- Hradschinvorstadt; 1945
Renovation of the Great Ball House, Prague- Hradschinvorstadt; 1946
Reconstruction of the pleasure palace Hvezda, Prague- Horni Liboc; 1949-1951
Rehabilitation and renewal of the Royal pleasure palace, Prague- Hradschinvorstadt; 1953-1955

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