Only those buildings in Prague and other cities of the country that could be attributed to the direction of Cubism fell into the scope of the curators' attention.
In the early 1910s, Prague was the second most important - after Paris - the center of this artistic movement in Europe. In a sense, the Czech Republic was even ahead of France: there were unusually many cubist artists there; sculptors, designers, theater artists, decorators, writers and architects, who considered themselves to be representatives of Cubism, also actively worked there.
Czech architectural cubism occupies a special place in the history of European architecture. Its first monument can be considered the house of the Jakubek family in Jicin (1911-1912), designed by Pavel Janak. It was a kind of practical implementation of his article "The Prism and the Pyramid", in which Janak described the theoretical foundations of architectural cubism. Already by 1913, the buildings of the so-called. radical Cubism, for example, the building of Josef Chochol or the "Diamond House" by Emil Kralicek in Prague.
The exhibition in the CzechPoint Gallery of the Czech Cultural Center in Berlin is dedicated to the initial, brightest period in the development of this most interesting architectural movement - 1911-1914 - but buildings in this style continued to appear in the Czech Republic until the late 1920s.
The exhibition "Architecture of Czech Cubism" will run until February 28, 2008.
