An architect and representative of interwar functionalism. He often cooperated with sculptors on creating monuments. Many of them are now listed as cultural heritage sites. He had his own design studio and was a member of the Art Department of the Czech Artists’ Forum (Umělecká beseda). In the Baba estate, he designed a house for the writer Václav Řezáč.

Vojtěch Kerhart

(*1892 Poděbrady +1978 Poděbrady)

1911-1922
studied architecture at CTU in Prague

1914-1916
military service in the Austro-Hungarian army

1916-1920
military service in the Czechoslovak Legion in Russia, return via Vladivostok and Canada as a major

1922-1923
employed at the Ministry of Health

1924-1925
employed at the Ministry of Defence

1925-1948
independent architect in Prague and Poděbrady

1948-1957
employed in state design institutes

Significant Works

1924
barracks, Pardubice

1926
College of Agriculture, Poděbrady

1927-1928
monuments to President T. G. Masaryk in Poděbrady, Kroměříž, Nitra (in cooperation with Otto Gutfreund) and Kolín (in cooperation with J. Hruška and K. Kotrba)

1928
monument to Napoleon Bonaparte, Žuráň

1929
Štefánik’s House, Prague-Nové Město (in cooperation with Jan Zázvorka)

1930
post office, Poděbrady

1932
house of Karel Řezáč, Baba, Prague-Dejvice

1933
house of Karla Moravcová, Baba, Prague-Dejvice
weir and lock, Srnojedy, near Poděbrady

1934
monument to Bedřich Smetana, Poděbrady (in cooperation with Josef Wagner)
weir and hydroelectric power plant, Lysá nad Labem
villa in Dobřichovice

1934-1937
residential houses for pilots, workshops and police station, Prague-Ruzyně Airport

1935
barracks, Tábor

1937
Prague II radio station, Mělník

1938

Brno II radio station, Dobrochov
Poděbrady Colonnade

1939
Karel Čapek’s tombstone, Prague-Vyšehrad
villa in Volyně

1948
memorial to the victims of the German occupation, Poděbrady (in cooperation with K. Lidický)

1957
monument to Jan Hus, Husinec (in cooperation with K. Lidický)

1958
kiosk on Rieger Square, Poděbrady

Realised buildings in Baba Housing Estate

1932 house of Karel Řezáč, Baba, Prague-Dejvice