Evžen Linhart

An architect, furniture designer, and student of Antonín Engel at CTU in Prague. His works are based on purism (co-founder of the “Purist Four” of the Devětsil Association) and Czech modernism, which stood in juxtaposition to the hitherto popular decorativism. Influenced by Le Corbusier, he later became an advocate of functionalism. He was a member of the ARDEV Association and Mánes Union of Fine Arts. His designs, most of which were unfortunately not implemented, combine an extraordinarily artistic dispositional creativity with structural purity and attention to detail. Together with Antonín Heythum, he designed the Lisý House in the Baba estate.

1918-1924
studied architecture with Professors Rudolf Kříženecký and Antonín Engel at CTU in Prague

1924-1945
employed at the Housing Authority at the Prague City Hall

1946-1949
Director of the Department of Exhibitions at the Ministry of Information

Significant Works

1924-25
residential block of flats, Prague-Žižkov

1925
residential block of flats, Prague-Hostivař

1927-1929
his own villa, Prague-Dejvice

1932
house of Marie and Emanuel Lisý (in cooperation with Antonín Heythum), Baba, Praha-Dejvice

1938
residential house, Prague-Dejvice

1946-58
collective house of the Stalin chemical plants, Horní Litvínov (in cooperation with Václav Hilský)

1947
Czechoslovak exhibition at the Triennale di Milano

1932 house of Marie and Emanuel Lisý (in cooperation with Antonín Heythum), Baba, Praha-Dejvice