Architecture Empowering Space: Alfred Neumann – Life and Work
On Thursday, May 10, 2018, at 5:00 PM, the opening of the exhibition Architecture Seizing Space: Alfred Neumann - Life and Work will take place at the House of Art in Brno, Malinovského náměstí 2.
Architecture Seizing Space: Alfred Neumann – Life and Work is the very first exhibition dedicated to the work of Alfred Neumann (1900–1968), a significant modern architect and a native of Brno. Neumann began his career in the 1960s in Israel, and his highly original architecture stood apart from the canon of the so-called international style of the time: he avoided functionalist and orthogonal expressions and opted for the geometry of polyhedra.
The exhibition will showcase previously unpublished photographs, architectural drawings, and life-size spatial models constructed according to Neumann's most famous projects, allowing visitors to walk through them and gain their own authentic impression of his architectural geometries and spaces.
The exhibition and publication dedicated to Alfred Neumann were premiered at the Architecture Cabinet in Ostrava in 2015. The Brno presentation of Alfred Neumann's life and work is held on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of his death and is part of a cultural project called Tribute to Alfred Neumann.
The exhibition features the significant modern architect, a native of Brno and later a student at the Vienna Academy, where he studied under the guidance of Peter Behrens. After graduating in the 1920s, he focused on furniture design and later on buildings, in Paris (1925), Algeria (1928–1929), and briefly in the Republic of South Africa. During World War II, he was deported as a result of his Jewish heritage in the last transport to the Theresienstadt concentration camp. In 1947, he represented Czechoslovakia at the Congrès International d'Architecture Moderne (CIAM) in Bridgwater, England. After February 1948, he emigrated to Israel, where he lived and worked until 1965. In 1952, he began teaching at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, where he later became the dean of the architecture faculty. In 1953, he participated again in the CIAM meeting, this time in Aix-en-Provence, France, where he represented Israel. In 1958, he set off on a world tour to find new inspirations. A year later, he established his own architectural office, inviting two of his students from the Technion: Zvi Hecker and Eldar Sharon. Together, they won several competitions, including the design for the town hall building in Bat Yam. From 1961 to 1963, alongside the realization of the Arab city project of AnRafa, the construction of the Dubiner apartment building in Ramat Gan was conducted according to Neumann’s studio design. At the age of sixty-five, he left Israel and moved to Canada, where he began teaching at Laval University in Quebec, founded an architecture school, and where he passed away in the autumn of 1968 after a short illness.
Exhibition Dates: May 11 – June 10, 2018
Venue: Jaroslav Král Gallery, House of Art in Brno
Open: Tue – Sun 10 AM – 6 PM
Opening: May 10, 2018, 5:00 PM
Curators: Rafi Segal, Tadeáš Goryczka, Zvi Hecker
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Architecture Seizing Space: Alfred Neumann – Life and Work is the very first exhibition dedicated to the work of Alfred Neumann (1900–1968), a significant modern architect and a native of Brno. Neumann began his career in the 1960s in Israel, and his highly original architecture stood apart from the canon of the so-called international style of the time: he avoided functionalist and orthogonal expressions and opted for the geometry of polyhedra.
The exhibition will showcase previously unpublished photographs, architectural drawings, and life-size spatial models constructed according to Neumann's most famous projects, allowing visitors to walk through them and gain their own authentic impression of his architectural geometries and spaces.
The exhibition and publication dedicated to Alfred Neumann were premiered at the Architecture Cabinet in Ostrava in 2015. The Brno presentation of Alfred Neumann's life and work is held on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of his death and is part of a cultural project called Tribute to Alfred Neumann.
The exhibition features the significant modern architect, a native of Brno and later a student at the Vienna Academy, where he studied under the guidance of Peter Behrens. After graduating in the 1920s, he focused on furniture design and later on buildings, in Paris (1925), Algeria (1928–1929), and briefly in the Republic of South Africa. During World War II, he was deported as a result of his Jewish heritage in the last transport to the Theresienstadt concentration camp. In 1947, he represented Czechoslovakia at the Congrès International d'Architecture Moderne (CIAM) in Bridgwater, England. After February 1948, he emigrated to Israel, where he lived and worked until 1965. In 1952, he began teaching at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, where he later became the dean of the architecture faculty. In 1953, he participated again in the CIAM meeting, this time in Aix-en-Provence, France, where he represented Israel. In 1958, he set off on a world tour to find new inspirations. A year later, he established his own architectural office, inviting two of his students from the Technion: Zvi Hecker and Eldar Sharon. Together, they won several competitions, including the design for the town hall building in Bat Yam. From 1961 to 1963, alongside the realization of the Arab city project of AnRafa, the construction of the Dubiner apartment building in Ramat Gan was conducted according to Neumann’s studio design. At the age of sixty-five, he left Israel and moved to Canada, where he began teaching at Laval University in Quebec, founded an architecture school, and where he passed away in the autumn of 1968 after a short illness.
Exhibition Dates: May 11 – June 10, 2018
Venue: Jaroslav Král Gallery, House of Art in Brno
Open: Tue – Sun 10 AM – 6 PM
Opening: May 10, 2018, 5:00 PM
Curators: Rafi Segal, Tadeáš Goryczka, Zvi Hecker
More Information >
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