The gallery of the city of Přerov has opened an exhibition dedicated to architect Brauner

Přerov – The Gallery of the City of Přerov today opened an exhibition dedicated to one of the most significant personalities of the Olomouc art scene, architect Petr Brauner. He is associated with important buildings in Olomouc, such as Pavilion A at the Flora Exhibition Grounds and the tower house with a water reservoir on Nová Street. The architect currently lives in Přerov. The Přerov gallery has borrowed the collection from the Museum of Art, which dedicated the exhibition to him two years ago. The exhibition will be open until April 27.

"The exhibition will highlight that functional and aesthetic qualities have continuously accompanied Brauner's work up to the present day. As one of the few architects, he was able to contribute quality projects to the manifestations of Czech postmodernism and to reapply principles of high-tech architecture in commissions after 1989. All this with an approach aptly summarized by the author's motto: Architecture should not be boring, it should not lack humor or poetry," stated the curator of Brauner's exhibition, Klára Jeništová from the Museum of Art Olomouc.

The Gallery of the City of Přerov will enrich the Olomouc loan with additional exhibition panels that will primarily focus on Brauner's work specifically for Přerov. Visitors will thus be able to familiarize themselves with the administrative building of Levi International in front of the Přerov exhibition grounds, and his competition design for the Tyrš Bridge, the fountain design at the Haná restaurant, the children's playground on Jasínková Street, the Suzuki showroom, a family house in Přerov-Újezd, and more will also be featured in the exhibition.

The eighty-five-year-old architect Brauner has previously received partial recognition in two exhibition projects of the Museum of Art. The current presentation of his professional work in Přerov continues from his exhibition in 2019 and also highlights his artistic endeavors. "Part of the installation includes Brauner's graphics from his authorial collection of pictures and verses Annotations on the Place in the gallery's salon," added the gallery manager Lada Galová.

The architect is credited with numerous significant buildings in the region. His further career was marked by the year 1968 and subsequent dismissal from Stavoprojekt due to a painted invitation to a St. Nicholas celebration, which depicted a large Russian soldier with a submachine gun standing over small imps and angels. Brauner eventually ended up at DRUPOS, the design office of the Union of Housing Cooperatives, where he designed, among other things, a crematorium in Šumperk and the operational building of Česká pojišťovna in Prostějov. A year after the revolution, the Brauner couple founded their own office. He is credited with the appearance of the Olomouc tax office and the former Gemo hotel.