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Vladimír Fischer
Vladimír Fischer (4 June 1870 – 28 October 1947) was a Czechs, Czech architect, professor and university administrator. He was a major figure in the development of modern architecture in the new state of Czechoslovakia after World War I and trained numerous university architecture students in Brno during the interwar period. Early life and training Fischer was born on 4 June 1870 in Fryšták, Moravia, Austria-Hungary. He was the son of Antonín Fischer (1841–1905), who ran a construction company there and later in Holešov, and his wife Františka Rectorová. Vladimír Fischer attended state schools in Brno until 1887, then matriculated to the Czech Technical University in Prague, where he studied engineering construction under prominent Galicia (Eastern Europe), Galician-born architect Friedrich Ohmann until 1893. Moving to Vienna, Fischer then studied building technology with the historicist architect Emil Ritter von Förster in 1894–95. Fischer worked as an intern in vo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fryšták
Fryšták () is a town in Zlín District in the Zlín Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 3,800 inhabitants. The historic town centre is well preserved and is protected as an urban monument zone. Administrative division Fryšták consists of four municipal parts (in brackets population according to the 2021 census): *Fryšták (1,470) *Dolní Ves (513) *Horní Ves (1,403) *Vítová (275) Etymology The name is a Czech transliteration of the German ''frei stadt'' (i.e. 'free town'). Geography Fryšták is located about north of Zlín. The northern part of the municipal territory lies in the Hostýn-Vsetín Mountains, rest of the territory lies in the Vizovice Highlands. The highest point is at above sea level. Fryšták lies on the border between ethnographic regions of Moravian Wallachia and Haná. The town is situated lies on the stream Fryštácký potok. The Fryšták Reservoir was built on this stream in 1935–1938 as a water source for Zlín. Since 1997, the res ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karel Kapka
Karel may refer to: People * Karel (given name) * Karel (surname) * Charles Karel Bouley (born 1962), American talk radio personality known on air as Karel * Christiaan Karel Appel (1921–2006), Dutch painter and sculptor Business * Karel Electronics, a Turkish electronics manufacturer * Grand Hotel Karel V, Dutch Hotel *Restaurant Karel 5, Dutch restaurant Other * 1682 Karel, an asteroid * Karel (programming language), an educational programming language See also * Karelians or Karels, a Baltic-Finnic ethnic group *''Karel and I'', 1942 Czech film *Karey (other) Karey may refer to: People * Karey Dornetto (fl. 2002–present), American screenwriter * Karey Hanks (fl. 2016–2018), American politician * Karey Kirkpatrick (fl. 1996–present), American screenwriter * Karey Lee Woolsey (born 1976), Americ ... {{disambiguation ja:カール (人名) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vnorovy
Vnorovy is a municipality and village in Hodonín District in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 2,900 inhabitants. Administrative division Vnorovy consists of two municipal parts (in brackets population according to the 2021 census): *Vnorovy (2,036) *Lidéřovice (783) Geography Vnorovy is located about northeast of Hodonín and southeast of Brno. It lies on the border between the Vizovice Highlands and the Lower Morava Valley. The highest point is at above sea level. The Baťa Canal flows through the municipality. The Velička River flows along the southern municipal border. History The first written mention of Vnorovy is in a hoax that was created between 1267 and 1275. Lidéřovice was first mentioned in 1412. In 1673, Vnorovy was promoted to a market town, but later lost the title. The village and formerly independent municipality of Lidéřovice, which is urbanistically fused with Vnorovy, joined Vnorovy in 1960. Demographics Transport Vnor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slavkov U Brna
Slavkov u Brna (; ) is a town in Vyškov District in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 7,300 inhabitants. The town gave its name to the Battle of Austerlitz, which took place several kilometres west of the town. The historic town centre is well preserved and is protected as an urban monument zone. Etymology The German name (and the former Czech name ) is derived from Latin ('new settlement'), which has gradually evolved over history through the names (1237), (1322), (1343), (1460) and (1611). The current Czech name is derived from the name Slávek (a colloquial name for Bohuslav), who probably owned a manor house here. This name was first documented in 1361. In 1918, Slavkov was renamed Slavkov u Brna ('Slavkov near Brno') to distinguish from other places with the same name. Geography Slavkov u Brna is located about east of Brno. It is situated on the border of three geomorphological regions: the northeastern part of the municipal territory li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olomouc
Olomouc (; ) is a city in the Czech Republic. It has about 103,000 inhabitants, making it the Statutory city (Czech Republic), sixth largest city in the country. It is the administrative centre of the Olomouc Region. Located on the Morava (river), Morava River, the city is the ecclesiastical metropolis and was a historical co-capital city of Moravia, before having been occupied by the Military of the Swedish Empire, Swedish army during the Thirty Years' War. The historic city centre is well preserved and is protected as Cultural monument (Czech Republic)#Monument reservations, urban monument reservation. The Holy Trinity Column in Olomouc, Holy Trinity Column was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2000 for its quintessential Baroque architecture, Baroque style and symbolic value. Administrative division Olomouc consists of 26 municipal parts (in brackets population according to the 2021 census): *Olomouc (13,446) *Bělidla (834) *Černovír (1,010) *Chomoutov (1,070) *Ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tišnov
Tišnov (; ) is a town in Brno-Country District in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 9,200 inhabitants. Administrative division Tišnov consists of five municipal parts (in brackets population according to the 2021 census): *Tišnov (8,973) *Hajánky (68) *Hájek (48) *Jamné (93) *Pejškov (63) Pejškov and the area of Hajánky, Hájek and Jamné form two Enclave and exclave, exclaves of the municipal territory. Geography Tišnov is located about northwest of Brno. Most of the municipal territory lies in the Boskovice Furrow, but the northeastern exclave lies in the Upper Svratka Highlands and the southwestern exclave in the Křižanov Highlands. The highest point is a contour line at above sea level, located in the northeastern exclave. The town proper is situated on the left bank of the Svratka (river), Svratka river. History The first written mention of Tišnov is from 1233, in a charter of the Porta coeli Convent in neighbouring Předklášte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luhačovice
Luhačovice (; ) is a spa town in Zlín District in the Zlín Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 5,000 inhabitants. It is known for the largest spa in Moravia and for architecturally valuable buildings designed by the architect Dušan Jurkovič. The historic town centre with the spa infrastructure is well preserved and is protected as an Cultural monument (Czech Republic)#Monument zones, urban monument zone. Administrative division Luhačovice consists of four municipal parts (in brackets population according to the 2021 census): *Luhačovice (4,160) *Kladná Žilín (192) *Polichno (257) *Řetechov (233) Polichno and Řetechov form two Enclave and exclave, exclaves of the municipal territory. Etymology The name was probably derived from the personal name Luhač. The name could also be derived from ''luhy'', which means "meadows on wetter soil". Geography Luhačovice is located about south of Zlín. It lies in the hilly landscape in the Vizovice Highlands. The highest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prostějov
Prostějov (; ) is a city in the Olomouc Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 43,000 inhabitants. The city is historically known for its fashion industry. The historic city centre is well preserved and is protected as an urban monument zone. '' AČR'' special forces unit 601. skss is based in Prostějov. Administrative division Prostějov consists of seven municipal parts (in brackets population according to the 2021 census): *Prostějov (34,447) *Čechovice (1,584) * Čechůvky (143) *Domamyslice (1,089) *Krasice (2,694) *Vrahovice (3,372) *Žešov (337) Etymology The original name of Prostějov was Prostějovice. The name was derived from the personal name Prostěj (a variant of the name Prostimír), meaning "the village of Prostěj's people". After the village was promoted to a town, the name changed to Prostějov. Geography Prostějov is located about southwest of Olomouc and northeast of Brno. It lies mostly in a flat agricultural landscape of the Upper Mor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Smíchov
Smíchov () is, since 1922, a district and cadastral area of Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic, and is part of Prague 5. It is on the west bank of the Vltava river. History It was only on 22 February 1903, that Smíchov was elevated to a city by imperial decision, and on 21 January 1904, Smíchov was granted a city coat of arms. In 1910 population of Smíchov was 51,791. After the first world war on the basis of the Act on Great Prague, Smíchov was attached to Great Prague in 1922 as part of its new urban district Prague XVI. The Ringhoffer factory, founded in 1852 by railway magnate Baron Franz Ringhoffer (1817–1873) and nationalized after World War II, was part of one of the largest industrial enterprises of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (and later of Czechoslovakia). The Ringhoffer Works with more than 30,000 employees played a significant role in central European economy with global relevance, exporting railway carriages, cars ( Tatra) and trucks across the worl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nazi Germany
Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German Reich, German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a Totalitarianism, totalitarian dictatorship. The Third Reich, meaning "Third Realm" or "Third Empire", referred to the Nazi claim that Nazi Germany was the successor to the earlier Holy Roman Empire (800–1806) and German Empire (1871–1918). The Third Reich, which the Nazis referred to as the Thousand-Year Reich, ended in May 1945, after 12 years, when the Allies of World War II, Allies defeated Germany and entered the capital, Berlin, End of World War II in Europe, ending World War II in Europe. After Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany in 1933, the Nazi Party began to eliminate political opposition and consolidate power. A 1934 German referendum confirmed Hitler as sole ''Führer'' (leader). Power was centralised in Hitler's person, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Expressionist Architecture
Expressionist architecture was an architectural movement in Europe during the first decades of the 20th century in parallel with the expressionism, expressionist visual and performing arts that especially developed and dominated in Germany. Brick Expressionism is a special variant of this movement in western and northern Germany, as well as in the Netherlands (where it is known as the Amsterdam School). In the 1920s The term "Expressionist architecture" initially described the activity of the German, Dutch, Austrian, Czech and Danish avant garde from 1910 until 1930. Subsequent redefinitions extended the term backwards to 1905 and also widened it to encompass the rest of Europe. Today the meaning has broadened even further to refer to architecture of any date or location that exhibits some of the qualities of the original movement such as; distortion, fragmentation or the communication of violent or overstressed emotion. The style was characterised by an early-modernist archit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bauhaus
The Staatliches Bauhaus (), commonly known as the , was a German art school operational from 1919 to 1933 that combined Decorative arts, crafts and the fine arts.Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 4th edn., 2009), , pp. 64–66 The school became famous for its approach to design, which attempted to unify individual artistic vision with the principles of mass production and emphasis on form follows function, function. The Bauhaus was founded by architect Walter Gropius in Weimar. It was grounded in the idea of creating a ''Gesamtkunstwerk'' ("comprehensive artwork") in which all the arts would eventually be brought together. The Bauhaus style later became one of the most influential currents in modern design, Modern architecture, modernist architecture, and architectural education. The Bauhaus movement had a profound influence on subsequent developments in art, architecture, graphic design, interior design, industrial design, and typography. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
