Josef Hrejsemnou

Havířov train station designed by Josef Hrejsemnou, an example of the so-called Brussels style

Josef Hrejsemnou (28 May 1928[1] – 2010) was a Czech architect.[2]

Life

Josef Hrejsemnou was born in 1928 in Zlín, Czechoslovakia. He studied in 1951–1957 in Leningrad (today's Saint Petersburg). His tutor was a Soviet architect Igor Fomin, son of the famous Russian architect Ivan Fomin. In the Soviet Union he saw the changes in the Soviet architecture of that time which was leaving the Stalinist Socialistic realism and started to accept new artistic impulses from the Western countries. Josef Hrejsemnou was inspired also by the pre-war avant-garde architecture, probably also by the pre-war architecture of his hometown Zlín.[2]

He came back to Czechoslovakia in 1957. His best-known work is the train station building in Havířov which was built in 1965–1969.[3] He died in Havířov in 2010.[2]

Notes

  1. ↑ "Josef Hrejsemnou" (in Czech). Osobnosti kultury. Retrieved 20 July 2014.
  2. 1 2 3 Strakoš, Martin. "Architekt Josef Hrejsemnou". http://www.dularchitektury.cz (in Czech). Občanské sdružení Důl architektury. Retrieved 20 July 2014. External link in |website= (help)
  3. ↑ "Příliš senzační Brusel. Havířovské nádraží se už nehodí". http://www.ceskatelevize.cz (in Czech). Česká televize. Retrieved 20 July 2014. External link in |website= (help)
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