Jan Kotěra

Kotěra was born in Brno, the largest city in Moravia, to a Czech father and German-speaking mother. He studied architecture in Vienna during the waning days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire under the Viennese master Otto Wagner.^[1]

Kotěra returned to Prague in 1897 to help found a dynamic movement of Czech nationalist artists and architects centered on the Mánes Union of Fine Arts. Strongly influenced by the work of the Vienna Secession, his work bridged late nineteenth-century architectural design and early modernism. Kotěra collaborated with Czech sculptors Jan Štursa, Stanislav Sucharda, and Stanislav's son Vojtěch Sucharda on a number of buildings.

As a teacher, Kotěra trained a generation of Czech architects, including Josef Gočár, who would bring Czech modernism to its pinnacle in the years leading up to the Nazi occupation in 1939. Kotěra was one of a number of Czech architects to design the "Bata houses" and Bata shoe factory at East Tilbury, Essex, England.^[2] These are considered Modernist landmarks of industry and a company town.

• East Bohemian Museum in Hradec Králové,^[3] (1908–1912)
• Peterka House, 12 Wenceslas Square, Prague (1899–1900)
• National House in Prostějov
• Trmalova Villa - an early rustic villa in Prague^[4]
• Villa of Tomáš Baťa in Zlín
• Faculty of Law of Charles University in Prague (1924–1927)
• Two monuments for members of the Perutz family at the New Jewish Cemetery

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  Museum of Eastern Bohemia, Hradec Králové.
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  Národní dům (National House), Prostějov.
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  Baťa's villa, Zlín.
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  Faculty of Law, Prague.
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  Bust in Prague.

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