Hradec Museum will open the exhibition "Kotěra. In the Footsteps of Modernity..."

Hradec Králové - The Museum of Eastern Bohemia in Hradec Králové will open an exhibition titled Kotěra. In the Footsteps of Modernity... The opening, held on the occasion of the hundredth anniversary of the opening of the Hradec museum building, will follow the conference Jan Kotěra: His Teachers and Students, which began today. Dana Mylerová from the Hradec museum said this to ČTK today. The exhibition and conference are taking place in the museum building designed by Kotěra.
According to Mylerová, the exhibition is structured as a story that begins in Vienna at the end of the 19th century and ends in Hradec Králové in the 1920s, when the city became a model for other cities thanks to architects Jan Kotěra and Josef Gočár. "The exhibition will showcase various photographs, drawings, and models loaned from, for example, the Vienna museum, or from the collections of the National Gallery or the National Technical Museum," Mylerová stated. The exhibition will be open until January 31.
At the international professional conference, about twenty speakers will present, and participants this morning reviewed the museum building. In the evening, after the lectures, there will be a tour of Hradec's modern architecture. Lectures will continue on Thursday as well. The Hradec museum building is considered one of the most significant structures in Hradec Králové and has been a national cultural monument since 1995.
Architect Kotěra (December 18, 1871 – April 17, 1923) designed, among other things, the former District House in Hradec Králové. Kotěra also brought his student Josef Gočár (March 13, 1880 – September 10, 1945) to Hradec Králové, who designed the overall regulatory plan and the gymnasium in the shape of an open book, two primary schools connected by a boldly designed kindergarten building, and a structure for the Czechoslovak Hussite Church.