New times - new life. The exhibition on interwar architecture in the spa is on display for a few more days

The New Era - New Life exhibition introduces visitors to the architectural events in Luhačovice in the interwar era. Two periods were crucial for Luhačovice in terms of the creation of architectural monuments in the last century - the first dates from 1902 to the beginning of the First World War, when Art Nouveau, represented by the distinctive style of Dušan Jurkovič and Emil Králík, was in full development in the town.

The second significant period falls in the 1920s and 1930s, when a number of important buildings were realized in Luhačovice by leading Czech architects. Among others, the Villa Sava and guesthouses in the White Quarter by Bohuslav Fuchs, the swimming pool, the post office by Ladislav Machona, the sokolovna designed by the Kuby brothers, the Municipal Savings Bank, the Ottovka Pavilion, the tennis pavilion and the Inhalatorium by Josef Skřivánek, the spa dairy by Miloslav Kopřiva, the spa headquarters by Emil Králík, the Social House by architect František Roith were built.

During the war period Oskar Pořízka designed the spa colonnade, the Vincentka pavilion and the related buildings of the Investigation and Research Institute, which were realized after the end of the war in 1947-1950. This modern interwar architecture radically changed the spa site. The presented spa realizations belong to the cultural heritage not only of our region, but also in a national context.

Each of the distinctive buildings is presented in the exhibition through photographic and plan documentation in both its original and contemporary form. The exhibition is complemented by architectural models, an orientation map, contemporary articles, publications and correspondence between the architects and the investors, particularly the joint stock company of the spa. Unrealised designs, urban planning concepts and the results of architectural competitions for the design of the spa centre from 1933 are also recalled.

The exhibition was prepared by the Zlín Gallery in cooperation with the Brno City Museum, the Moravian Provincial Archive in Brno, the Museum of the Luhačovice Woods and the Olomouc Museum of Art, from whose collections a number of previously unpublished materials have been taken. The author of the exhibition is Ladislava Horňáková, who works at the Zlín Regional Gallery and has long focused on research, documentation and presentation of architecture.

Categories: Tourism, What to do in Luhačovice, Spa, Luhačovice, Architecture, Museum of the Luhačovice Forest, Exhibition