Gocar Josef (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Sm.8° - 409pp - B/w photo-reproductions. Examples of Architecture and the social way of life in the seventies. First edition, published in 9600 copies, Text in Czech language. Original cloth and dust-jacket. Very good condition.…

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Sm.8° - B/w reproductions. Modern Artists of Austria - Municipal House in Prague September-October 1928. Participating: C.R. Andersen - Herbert Boeckl - Hans Boehler - Josef Dobner - Anton Faistauer - Johannes Fischer - Laszlo Gabor - Alexander D. Goltz - L.F. Graf Fritz Gross - Paris Gütersloh - Margareta Hamerschlagova - Anton Hanak - Richard Harfinger - Felix Harta - Carry Hauser - E. Huber - Jaromir Jindra - G. Kirsta - F. Kitt - Wilhelm Klier - Gustav Klimt - Oscar Kokoschka - Broncia Kollerova - Anton Kolig - V. Planckh - Sergius Pauser -M. Reinitz - K. Rössing - Hans Schaukal - Egon Scciele - Eugen Steinhof - V. Tischler - W. Thöny - A. Wickenburg - L. Wieden - Franz Wiegele & Franz Zülow. Text in Czech. Original wrappers. Wrappers slightly damaged otherwise in good condition. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 4to. 310x240mm. Original red-lettered cloth. 32 pages of monochrome plates and plans. Covers a little yellowed. Presentation inscription from the architect Josef Gocár to the Dutch architect J.P.Oud. dated 28.v.1930. Josef Gocár (1880-1945) received his early instruction at the State Technical School in Prague. At the age of 23 he went to study under Jan Kotera at the School of Applied Arts in Prague (UP). For two years afterward, 19061908, Gocár was employed by Kotera's studio. At that time he decided to join the Mánes Union of Fine Arts, but left it in 1911 to join the Cubist Group of Visual Artists. Gocár joined Pavel Janák, Josef Chochol and Odoln Grege in founding the Prague Art Workshops in 1912. In 1924, following the death of Kotera, Gocár became a professor at the Prague Academy of Fine Arts.After his involvement in cubism, Gocár turned to "national" Czech Rondocubism style in the early 1920s. Later on he adopted the Functionalist approach to architecture. Among his greatest accomplishments is the Czechoslovak Pavilion for the 1925 Exposition internationale des arts décoratifs et industriels modernes in Paris. He was awarded the Grand Prize for that design. In 1926 Gocár was awarded the Ordre de la Légion d'honneur.…

Genève, 1930. XVI pp. 95 plts. Cloth. (Meister der Baukunst). - Spine minimally rubbed.