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Jiří Kroha

Jiří Kroha was born in 1893 at Prague. Kroha died in 1974 at Prague. Jiří Kroha was recorded as having studied at Czech Technical University in Prague.

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Biography

Jiří Kroha is recorded as having received Národní umělec, Order of Labour (Czechoslovakia) and Order of the Republic.

Jiří Kroha studied at Czech Technical University in Prague. The recorded working language is Czech.

Places of work recorded in the authority are Brno and Kroměříž.

Distinctions recorded are Národní umělec, Order of Labour (Czechoslovakia), Order of the Republic and Order of the Victorious February.

Catalogued output

Works

Their recorded dates run from 1925 to 1998.

  • Kulturní dům Akord

  • Villa Kroha

    1930

  • Villa Patočka

    1936

  • Building of the Secondary Technical School in Mladá Boleslav

  • Jaselská 14

    1925

  • Jiří Kroha a Divadlo

  • Oekonomie der Kleinstwohnung

  • Jiří Kroha, 1893-1974

  • Národní umělec Jiří Kroha

  • Výstava celoz̆ivotního díla národniho umĕlce Jir̆ího Krohy

  • Jiri Kroha

  • Sociologický frament bydlení

Dated record

Life and career

Explore 1893–1974

  1. 1893

    Life

    Jiří Kroha was born in 1893 at Prague.

  2. 1925

    Jaselská 14 is dated 1925.

  3. 1927

    Institution

    Horizont (Horizon) is dated 1927–1931 and held by The Art Institute of Chicago.

  4. 1930

    Villa Kroha is dated 1930.

  5. 1936

    Villa Patočka is dated 1936.

  6. 1973

    Sovětská architektonická avantgarda is dated 1973.

  7. 1974

    Life

    Jiří Kroha died in 1974 at Prague.

The full dated record · 7 entries

  1. 1893

    Jiří Kroha was born in 1893 at Prague.

  2. 1925

    Jaselská 14 is dated 1925.

  3. 1927

    Horizont (Horizon) is dated 1927–1931 and held by The Art Institute of Chicago.

  4. 1930

    Villa Kroha is dated 1930.

  5. 1936

    Villa Patočka is dated 1936.

  6. 1973

    Sovětská architektonická avantgarda is dated 1973.

  7. 1974

    Jiří Kroha died in 1974 at Prague.

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  • Prague
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Kubist, Expressionist, Funktionalist, Realist (1998: Wien) and Jiří Kroha. Kubist, Expressionist, Funktionalist, Realist (1998: Wien).

Jiří Kroha is connected to 1 other published record in the VALÉORINE Encyclopedia.

  • In public collections

  • Literature

  • Kroha, Jiří, Oxford Art Online, 2003

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