Vítězslav Korn
*11. 4. 1906 – Brno, Czech Republic
Biography
Father Moriz Korn was a tinsmith and came from Polish Rzeszów, mother Sofia (née Löwy) probably hailed from Brno. They had a total of four children. The second-born Vítězslav obtained Czechoslovak citizenship on September 11, 1933. From 1921 to 1926, he studied at the Higher Technical School of Construction in Brno. In a short period from 1938 to 1939, he worked as an independent architect. In 1939, he fled occupied Czechoslovakia, joined the Czechoslovak Army, and fought in France, Poland, and England. After World War II, he enrolled at the Prague Academy of Fine Arts under Jaroslav Fragner, where he graduated in 1947. After the communist coup, he refused to join the Communist Party. In 1949, he married Vilma Herczová (née Spitzová) in Prague, and in 1950 they both emigrated through Germany and England to the USA, where their trail goes cold.
Father Moriz Korn was a tinsmith and came from Polish Rzeszów, mother Sofia (née Löwy) probably hailed from Brno. They had a total of four children. The second-born Vítězslav obtained Czechoslovak citizenship on September 11, 1933. From 1921 to 1926, he studied at the Higher Technical School of Construction in Brno. In a short period from 1938 to 1939, he worked as an independent architect. In 1939, he fled occupied Czechoslovakia, joined the Czechoslovak Army, and fought in France, Poland, and England. After World War II, he enrolled at the Prague Academy of Fine Arts under Jaroslav Fragner, where he graduated in 1947. After the communist coup, he refused to join the Communist Party. In 1949, he married Vilma Herczová (née Spitzová) in Prague, and in 1950 they both emigrated through Germany and England to the USA, where their trail goes cold.
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Realizations and projects
Other buildings
The station building at the Lanžhot railway station (in collaboration with architect Josef Otruba), 1946
Unrealized project for the station building at the Olbramkostel railway station, 1946
The station building at the Lanžhot railway station (in collaboration with architect Josef Otruba), 1946
Unrealized project for the station building at the Olbramkostel railway station, 1946
