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	artnet.com: Resource Library: Chochol, Josef (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		In the 1920s Chochol became a member of Devetsil, the group of avant-garde writers, artists and architects centred on the figure of Karel Teige; he was also a member of the Architects’ Club (from 1925) and the architectural branch of the Left Front (from 1929).
		He was present at the foundation of the Union of Socialist Architects (1933) and was active in the Czechoslovak group of CIAM.
		Chochol was particularly interested in the provision of affordable housing, and in 1935 he won awards for his work at the Exposition Universelle in Brussels.
	www.artnet.com /library/01/0173/T017310.asp (445 words)

	Prague Sights & Activities \| Fodor's Online Travel Guide
		On the same street, at Neklanova 2, is another apartment house attributed to Chochol; like the building at Neklanova 30, it uses pyramidal shapes and the suggestion of Gothic columns.
		The cornerstone was laid in 1868, and the "National Theater generation" who built the neo-Renaissance structure became the architectural and artistic establishment for decades to come.
		The nearly finished interior was gutted by a fire in 1881, and Zítek's onetime student Josef Schulz (1840-1917) saw the reconstruction through to completion two years later.
	www.fodors.com /miniguides/mgresults.cfm?destination=prague@122&cur_section=sig&sort=name&review=full&pg=1 (3597 words)

	New Page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		In this year the avant-garde Group of Artists of Beaux Arts left the Mánes Association and its members Pavel Janák, Josef Gočár, Josef Chochol and Vlastislav Hofman became the creators and propagators of cubism in architecture.
		In the work of Josef Gočár we can follow the post war development of cubist architecture and even though this architect does not use pyramids, but cylinders as the base geometrical elements on the facade of the building of the former Legiobanka from 1921-1923, this architecture is no less cubist than pre-war realizations.
		Furthermore, there are remarkable villas by Chochol under the cliff of Vyšehrad, the reconstruction of a house on the square in Pelhřimov by Janák, the Teachers' Houses in Prague, the lesser-known tympanum of the gabled facade of a synagogue in Milevsko and of minor ornaments e.g.
	www.kubista.cz /english-kubismus.htm (708 words)

	National Theatre in Brno (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		We should at least cite here Bohuslav Fuchs, Josef Gocar, Vlastislav Hofman, Josef Chochol, Pavel Janak, Jan Kotera, Emil Kralik, Otakar Novotny, Oldrich Stary, and Jan Visek as examples.
		The panel awarded the first prize to a study by Josef Marik and Karel Sidlik, the second prize to Alois Dryak and the third to Theodor Macharacek.
		From the perspective of the present day, the plan of Emil Kralik stands out from among the designs that were bought and awarded prizes, while the winning study is an example of an unclearly defined conception that was, even in its own time, trapped in the margins of architecture.
	www.ndbrno.cz /ebudjd.php (2493 words)

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		Architect, studied at the Czech Institute of Technology in Prague under Professor Josef Schulz and at Vienna Academy of Fine Arts under Otto Wagner.
		Chochol was one of the main Cubist architects and created many fine examples in the Vysehrad area of Prague.
		A Cubist 'triple' house built for Frantisek Hodek, Jan and Josef Bayer and Antonin Belada, its design based on the disposition of a Baroque palace.
	www.ellipsis.com /guides/prague/buildings/hodekbb/010.1.html (113 words)

	artnet.com: Resource Library: Janák, Pavel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		He graduated in architecture from the Czech Technical University, Prague, where he studied under Josef Schulz and Josef Zítek, and from 1906 to 1907 he was a student of Otto Wagner at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Vienna.
		His early work was influenced by the modernism of Wagner and Kotera, but he perceived a danger of uniformity in a purely rationalist approach to architecture.
		In 1911, together with Josef Chochol, Josef Gocár, Vlastislav Hofman (1884–1964), Emil Filla, Václav Spála, Antonín Procházka, Otto Gutfreund and others, he founded the Group of Fine Artists, which sought a more artistic approach to architecture, and in 1912 he and Gocár founded the Prague Art Workshops for the design of arts, crafts and furniture.
	www.artnet.com /library/04/0433/T043352.asp (394 words)

	Postings on Posters: Capek, Josef Archives
		The architects in the group were Josef Gočár, Josef Chochol, Vlastislav Hofman (1884–1964) and Pavel Janák; other members included Emil Filla, Václav Špála, Antonín Procházka and Otto Gutfreund.
		The group was reacting against the austere rationalism of such architects as Jan Kotěra, seeking instead to sustain architecture and the applied arts as branches of art rich in content.
		The Czech artist Josef Čapek, whose work is reproduced on two posters in the Winters Collection, is remembered best for his paintings, book illustrations, theatrical set designs, and writings (particularly of novels, plays, and journalistic pieces).
	www.library.uiuc.edu /blog/cz_posters/archives/capek_josef (1870 words)

	Aristophanes: The Frogs (e-text) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		In retrospect, given how the brutal ironies of later Nazi and Communist rule brought a swift end to this discourse, these modernist hopes may seem extraordinarily naive to us, but that should not obscure just how vitally important these elements were for the development of modernism in Prague.
		In 1887 a group of artists formed the Mánes Union (named after the nineteenth century Josef Mánes) to promote internationalist styles in art, especially among young artists and to assist exhibitions of modern art.
		This trend came to be called "rondo-cubism," "decorativism," or "national style" (Moravánszky), and is most clearly manifested in Josef Gočár's Czechoslovak Legiobank, an explicit tribute to Czech soldiers in the war.
	www.mala.bc.ca /~johnstoi/praguepage/cubismlecture.htm (3236 words)

	Nadace českého kubismu - Czech Cubism
		The house and its interior were to become "a complex work of art", an integral component of which would be the cubist furniture and lights, cubist coffee and tea sets, vases, cases and ashtrays, cubist paintings on the wallpaper and cubist decorations.
		The architects Gočár, Chochol and Janák founded the Prague Artistic Workshop in 1912 for this purpose, and designed furniture for it, and the Artěl association began to focus on manufacturing small cubist objects.
		These promising developments were interrupted by the First World War.
	www.nck.cz /cesky_kubismus.php?lg=eng (424 words)

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		Cubism spread to the Czech lands before World War I. In 1911, the Group of Fine Artists, of which the architect Josef Chochol was a protagonist, was formed.
		He and others were interested in façades broken up by sharp angles, which created the effect of light and shadow seen in Cubist paintings.
		Many examples of it are found in Prague and probably the most famous of all is Neklanova No. 30, which was built in 1913 and designed by Chochol.
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		Pavel Janák, Josef Gocár, Josef Chochol, Vlastislav Hofman, and others argued with their mentor Jan Kotera, Otto Wagner's prominent student and founder of Czech modern architecture.
		By the mid-twenties the Cubists themselves had turned to rationalism or functionalism, and in retrospect deprecated their earlier efforts as a temporary digression.
		For example, Josef Capek commented on the work of Emil Filla by stating, "His works are meant to impress, to evoke the utmost modernity; he follows Picasso, yet errs, because Filla does not understand Picasso and only uses these external striking forms without understanding them at all."
	www.artmargins.com /content/feature/dvorak.html (3038 words)

	Modernism not so shocking after all - 23-01-2004 - Radio Prague
		At that time, they developed crystalline structures and pure-elevation facades, as seen in the work of Josef Chochol.
		Josef Chochol's most famous buildings are still standing in Prague today, including the Cubist House built at an acute angle under Prague's Vysehrad Castle or the functionalist Vila Verunáè.
		The New Architecture exhibit, a vision of modern style, presents an era of design where architects were no longer concerned with designing castles and churches.
	www.radio.cz /en/article/49782 (997 words)

	Czech out another Prague (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Built in 1924 by highly original architect Josef Gocar, it is an odd mix of cylindrical shapes and folk-art sculpture, the epitome of a new style: rondo-cubist.
		It is a great place to linger over a sweet Czech cake and coffee served in cubist cups and plan an excursion out to the residential neighbourhood of Vysehrad, where Gocar's contemporary Josef Chochol built cubist apartments and villas (such as the prismatic 1913 Villa Kovarovic at 3 Libusina St.), for fashionable clients.
		We don't often think of suburbs having architectural masterpieces but as Prague grew its sophisticated population built avant-garde villas, none more so than the 1928 Muller Villa (14 Nad hradnim vodojemem), which stands overlooking the city in the neighbourhood of Stresovice.
	www.canada.com /topics/technology/story.html?id=794bd704-572f-4b1e-a6b7-3c5d4e1103ef&k=25788&p=1 (630 words)

	Maximalism: The Cubism of Praha
		Neklanova 30 -- an apartment building named for its address -- lies on the corner of a nondescript street in a charming, almost hidden part of town.
		Designed by master of the Czech cubist tradition Josef Chochol, the apartment boasts an impressive set of pyramidal, kaleidoscopic window moldings and roof corners.
		While I didn't know what to make of one description of the building -- "a masterpiece in dingy concrete" -- I was suitably impressed by Neklanova and the dozens of other cubist delights that I saw during my jaunt in Prague.
	www.maximalism.nu /maximalism/2005/12/praha_cubism.html (190 words)

	European Collectibles : Czech Marionettes Make Great European Collectibles For All Ages
		This ravishing marionette was created by well known carver Josef Chochol from Prague at the begining of 20th century.
		The Spejbl and Hurvínek Theatre was established by Professor Josef Skupa (1892-1957) in Pilsen, western Bohemia in 1930.
		It was the very first modern professional marionette puppet theatre and has been dazzling children for years with its comical performances.
	www.czechmarionettes.com /published_v1/collectibles.v1.aspx (317 words)

	What is Czech Cubism? [Modernista]
		Four young, multi-talented designers, trained in the ateliers of leading rationalist architects Otto Wagner and Jan Kotera, were behind the bulk of Prague's Czech Cubist legacy.
		Inspired by the revolutionary work of Braque and Picasso, and urgently seeking a new style that would be their own, Pavel Janak, Josef Gocar, Josef Chochol and Vlastislav Hofman adapted the painters' cubist principles, and stretched them not only to another dimension, but also to everyday life.
		The Czech Cubists believed that an object's true internal energy could only be released by breaking up the vertical and horizontal surfaces that restrain and repress it in conventional design.
	www.modernista.cz /english/ma_czech_cubism.html (292 words)

	Prague Czech Republic - Czech Cubist architecture - In Your Pocket
		When Pablo Picasso and George Braque first defined Cubism in Paris, young Czech artists including Josef Gocar, Pavel Janak, Vlastislav Hofman and Josef Chochol saw in it a way to revolt against the excessively decorative style propagated by Mucha, and they eagerly made use of Cubism’s strange new angles.
		Reinforced concrete was making its way into construction, and enabled them to design open floor plans without needing pillars, which can clearly be seen inside Gocar's House of the Black Madonna, where the large café space was revolutionary at the time.
		South of the city centre, the Vysehrad district is the home of many Cubist buildings by Josef Chochol.
	www.inyourpocket.com /cr/prague/en/feature?id=55759 (682 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Europe \| Prague restores grand Cubist cafe
		Czech artists were then at the forefront of the European avant-garde, and were quick to latch on to the latest artistic developments.
		During the 1910s and 1920s, artists such as Josef Gocar, Pavel Janak, Josef Chochol and Vlastislav Hofman applied Cubist principles to architecture and domestic artefacts.
		Gocar's House of the Black Madonna - with its gabled front, Cubist-shaped entrance and internal spiral staircase - is an early example of the style.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/europe/4380877.stm (472 words)

	Travelrite International
		Depart Vienna by coach for Prague, the second city we visit with a passion for music, arriving in the afternoon.
		We visit Adolph Loos’ Villa Muller in the morning followed by an afternoon walk to Plecnik’s Church of the Sacred Heart, Frank Gehry’s 1996 ‘Fred and Ginger’ building and a collection of cubist buildings ¬villas and apartments by Josef Chochol, and Josef Gocar’s House of the Black Virgin.
		We spend the morning in Plecnik’s transformation of Hradcany (Prague Castle) with visits to St Vitus Cathedral, Old Royal Palace, St George’s Basilica and the Powder Tower.
	www.travelrite.com.au /dimity_reed_IT.html (621 words)

	Vitruvio.ch - Prague (Czech Republic - Praga, Repubblica Ceca) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		House on Libusina 3 by Josef Chochol, Czech Republic (1912 -1913).
		Apartment building on Neklanova 30 by Josef Chochol, Czech Republic (1913 -1914).
		Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus by Joze Plecnik, Czech Republic (1928 -1932).
	www.vitruvio.ch /arc/city/prague.php (173 words)

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		The two top stories of the house offer an opportunity to learn about Czech cubism in painting, sculpture, architecture and other applied arts, with pictures by Emil Filla, Josef Capek, Vaclav Spala and Bohumil Kubista are on display.
		The exposition also presents the works of graphic artists and architects Josef Gocar, Josef Chochol, Pavel Janak and others.
		Tomas Kopecny/Mirek Langer Czech Hockey-Player Sets German League Record Josef Dopita, a former HC Olomouc hockey player now playing forward for the Berlin Eisbaren, scored six goals in a German League game against Augsburg.
	carolina.cuni.cz /archive-en/Carolina-E-No-137.txt (5766 words)

	Housing Prototypes: Hodek Apartments (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Chavannes, Patrick Chochol, Josef Ciriani, Henri Coderch, Jose...
		Pavel Janák, a Prague architect who had contact with these ideas, started applying "Pyramidal cubism", decorative applications of slanted facets, folds and fractures to his building facades.
		Hodek was built at the edge of an older quarter of Prague and 20th century districts to the south.
	www.housingprototypes.org /project?File_No=CZ007 (681 words)

	Prague's Bohemian Rhapsody - Prague \| Travel + Leisure (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The city's patchwork texture, found nowhere else in Europe, owes its structural wealth to that period, when industrialists, businessmen, and the newly minted Republic of Czechoslovakia generated a surge in modern construction.
		Their handful of residential houses, apartment buildings, and small department stores is a curious amalgam of jutting surfaces and blocklike details slapped like afterthoughts onto classical forms.
		Driving along the Vltava, we stop at Josef Chochol's Cubist Triple House, a bulky building grown slightly shabby over the years.
	www.travelandleisure.com /articles/pragues-bohemian-rhapsody (3597 words)

	Dum U cerné Matky bozí, Czech Republic. Travel guide & tourist information by Hostelbookers.com
		Two-thirds of the way along Celetná, at the junction with Ovocny trh, is the Dum U cerné Matky bozí (House at the Black Madonna; Tues–Sun 10am–6pm; 70Kc; www.ecn.cz/cmvu), built as a department store in 1911–12 by Josef Gocár and one of the best examples of Czech Cubist architecture in Prague.
		It was a short-lived style, whose most surprising attribute, in this instance, is its ability to adapt existing Baroque motifs: Gocár's house sits much more happily amongst its eighteenth-century neighbours than, for example, the functionalist shop opposite – one of Gocár's later designs from the 1930s.
		There's a little bit of everything from sofas and sideboards by Gocár himself, Pavel Janák and Josef Chochol, to paintings by Emil Filla and Josef Capek, plus some wonderful sculptures by Otto Gutfreund.
	www.hostelbookers.com /guides/czech_republic/dum_u_cerne_matky_bozi (259 words)

	World City Guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The first of these (the Crucifixion) was erected in 1657, followed soon after by the only bronze statue, that of St John of Nepomuk (who was martyred after being thrown from the bridge).
		Most of the other statues of the saints (carved from local sandstone by Josef Brokof and Matthias Braun) were added between 1706 and 1714 (the latest was not added until 1928).
		Within the suburb of Vyaehrad itself, located on Neklanova and Rasínovo nábře~í, are villas designed by the architect Josef Chochol, whose designs remain a unique feature of Czech Cubism.
	www.platteville.k12.wi.us /travel/wcg/pra/miniguide.html (12222 words)

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