Jaroslav Fragner (25 December 1898, in

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– 3 January 1967, in Prague) was a Czech

modernist Modernism was an early 20th-century movement in literature, visual arts, and music that emphasized experimentation, abstraction, and Subjectivity and objectivity (philosophy), subjective experience. Philosophy, politics, architecture, and soc ...

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. Fragner was one of the prominent designers of

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in the

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. He contributed to the renovation of Prague Castle and designed several small weekend houses for relatives and friends, including Milča Mayerová. He was a member of the avant garde group

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and later Mánes Union of Fine Arts. File:Betlemska_kaple.jpg, link=https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Betlemska_kaple.jpg, Betlémská kaple, současná podoba po rekonstrukci podle projektu Jaroslava Fragnera, 1947–1967 File:Fragner_Karolinum_1.jpg, link=https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fragner_Karolinum_1.jpg, Karolinum, studie vstupního průčelí a čestného dvora, asi 1946–1950 File:Praha_Karolinum_ext_2.jpg, link=https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Praha_Karolinum_ext_2.jpg, Karolinum, vstupní průčelí a čestný dvůr, současný stav. File:Fragner_Karolinum_3.jpg, link=https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fragner_Karolinum_3.jpg, Karolinum, detail zábradlí hlavního schodiště, asi 1946–1950.

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* Czech architects 20th-century Czech architects 1898 births 1967 deaths {{CzechRepublic-architect-stub