Petr Kropáček
*14. 7. 1889 – Prague, Czech Republic
†10. 9. 1931 – Prague, Czech Republic
Biography
Petr Kropáček was a Czech architect, designer, entrepreneur, and writer (literary pseudonym Pavel Neri).
He studied architecture at the Prague Technical School (1908-13) and subsequently, along with his classmates Josef Gočár and Pavel Janák, founded the Prague Art Workshops, where they experimented with cubism. After the end of World War I, he traveled with his wife Marie (née Krausová) to South and Central America, where he designed workers' housing, but he was unsuccessful in other projects, and therefore he returned to Prague in 1920, where he designed residential apartment buildings and villas in a stark functionalist style. He also contributed to the founding of the avant-garde Theatre of Art. He was also a member of SVU Mánes.
Petr Kropáček was a Czech architect, designer, entrepreneur, and writer (literary pseudonym Pavel Neri).
He studied architecture at the Prague Technical School (1908-13) and subsequently, along with his classmates Josef Gočár and Pavel Janák, founded the Prague Art Workshops, where they experimented with cubism. After the end of World War I, he traveled with his wife Marie (née Krausová) to South and Central America, where he designed workers' housing, but he was unsuccessful in other projects, and therefore he returned to Prague in 1920, where he designed residential apartment buildings and villas in a stark functionalist style. He also contributed to the founding of the avant-garde Theatre of Art. He was also a member of SVU Mánes.
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