Marie Szadkowská : On the Loos researcher Věra Běhalová

This Thursday November 24, 2016, at 6:00 PM, as part of the November edition of Thursday lectures at Brummel House, the most significant monument in Pilsen by the father of modern architecture Adolf Loos, a lecture will take place at Brummel House, this time by the curator of Müller Villa, Mrs. Marie Szadkowska (author of the unparalleled book Adolf Loos - Work in the Czech Lands). The lecture will groundbreaking remember the unfairly forgotten researcher PhDr. Věra Běhalová, who greatly contributed to the rediscovery of Adolf Loos's interior designs in Pilsen and even spoke with some of Loos's Pilsen clients at the turn of the 60s and 70s! A fragile woman, art historian, who was imprisoned in camps after the war, ultimately found a way to work in the field on the periphery of then-socialist Czechoslovakia, namely in Pilsen (at the predecessor of today's heritage institute) and in the Karlovy Vary gallery. This very displacement to the periphery allowed her to focus on studying the then-almost-unknown Pilsen realizations of Adolf Loos, often still in a very untouched form. After the occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1968, Věra Běhalová, after bad experiences in the 50s, chose to emigrate, where she not only highlighted Pilsen realizations for the professional sphere but also continued her research on Loos. Therefore, on Thursday, thanks to Brummel House, Pilsen will repay its debt to this undervalued figure and bring details about her research and life story.

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