Background
Kotěra was born in Brno, the largest city in Moravia, to a Czechoslovakian father and German-speaking mother.
architect artist educationist painter university professor
Kotěra was born in Brno, the largest city in Moravia, to a Czechoslovakian father and German-speaking mother.
He studied architecture in Vienna during the waning days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire under the Viennese master Otto Wagner.
Kotěra returned to Prague in 1897 to help found a dynamic movement of Czechoslovakian nationalist artists and architects centered around the Mánes Union of Fine Arts. Strongly influenced by the work of the Vienna Secession, his work bridged late nineteenth-century architectural design and early modernism. Kotěra collaborated with Czechoslovakian sculptors January Štursa, Stanislav Sucharda, and Stanislav"s son Vojtěch Sucharda on a number of buildings.