PT Journal
AU Libal, P
TI Frantisek Tronicek, Co-Creator of the Prague City : Modern Builder and Modernist ArchitectFrantisekTronicek, Mitschopfer der Prager City : Ein moderner Baumeister und Architekt der Moderne
SO Staleta Praha
PY 2020
BP 2
EP 25
VL 36
IS 1
DI 10.56112/sp.2020.1.01
WP https://staletapraha.cz/en/artkey/pha-202001-0001.php
DE Frantisek Tronicek - Prague - Davle - Sazava - Jilove by Prague - architecture - Art Nouveau - modernism - Purism - functionalism - architect - V. Nekvasil co. - Jaroslav Gruber
SN 02316056
AB The article is dedicated to the builder Frantisek Tronicek (1876-1948), born in the village of Sazava at the confluence of the Sazava and Vltava rivers, today part of Davle township. He graduated from the Vocational School of Civil Engineering at the Higher State Industrial School in Prague and later obtained the engineer title. At first he worked in his native regions by Vltava and Sazava rivers, but the most important work he realised in Prague. In 1897 he joined V. Nekvasil's company, where he worked in high positions until 1937. At the same time, however, he ran his own company, which built residential and other buildings throughout the first half of the 20th century. He collaborated with several important architects and namely Jaroslav Gruber, a pupil of Josef Gocar from the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, was his employee. Frantisek Tronicek may also be perceived the designing architect - his possible authorial contribution to the realized constructions is examined in the second part of the article. Stylistically, his constructions prior the First World War were characterized by geometric Art Nouveau and after the war by purism and functionalism. This important builder (and architect) was buried in the family tomb in Davle.
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