Career

Polívka designed many of Prague"s significant landmarks of the era, plus other work in Brno and elsewhere. After graduating from Czechoslovakian Polytechnic in Prague, his first important commission was a collaboration with Antonín Wiehl, the 1894 Prague City Savings Bank. Polívka"s style evolved through his active years but he remained devoted to the collaborating with artists for aesthetic effect.

Prague City Savings Bank, Old Town Square, together with Antonín Wiehl, 1894, with distinctive architectural sculptural groups by Bohuslav Schnirch

Assicurazioni Generali offices, now the Viola Building, with Friedrich Ohmann, #7 Wenceslas Square, 1897

U Nováků department store, 1902–1903

co-architect with Municipal House (Obecní dům), with Antonín Balšánek, 1904–1912

Topič House, circa 1905

the New Town Hall of Prague, 1908–1911, with architectural sculpture by Stanislav Sucharda, Josef Mařatka and Ladislav Šaloun

Gallery of Modern Art in Hradec Králové, 1912, with allegorical sculpture by Šaloun flanking the entrance.