Dušan Jurkovič
Slovak architect / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dušan Samo Jurkovič (23 August 1868, Turá Lúka – 21 December 1947, Bratislava) was a Slovak architect, furniture designer, artist and ethnographer. One of the best-known promoters of Slovak art in 20th century Czechoslovakia, he is remembered mostly due to his projects of numerous World War I cemeteries in Galicia and thanks to his wooden works of spa complex in Luhačovice and mountain cottage hotel Maměnka and canteen Libušín in Pustevny. Thanks to his artistic work with wood, he is referred to as "the poet of timber". His architectonic style was a unique fusion of folk architecture and then-popular architectonic styles, mostly associated with Art Nouveau.[1] Jurkovič repeatedly stressed: "The work of art is rooted in the time. I also have always cautiously listened to its voice."[2]
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Dušan Jurkovič | |
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Born | (1868-08-23)23 August 1868 |
Died | 21 December 1947(1947-12-21) (aged 79) |
Resting place | Brezová pod Bradlom |
Awards | National artist (1945) Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk I. class, in memoriam (1991) Pribina cross I. class(2007) |