The exhibition commemorates Osvald Polívka, the author of many Prague buildings

Prague - The buildings of the significant domestic architect Osvald Polívka are presented in photographs at the exhibition in the Czech Savings Bank Gallery on Rytířská Street, in one of the buildings that he designed. The Prague Municipal Savings Bank was built in the neo-Renaissance style along with Antonín Wiehl between 1892 and 1894. The exhibition is curated by the architect's great-grandson, who used materials from the family archive for it.
The construction of the savings bank was among Polívka's first realizations in Prague, and he subsequently used the experience gained from it to construct many other banks and insurance companies, such as the corner building of the Zemská banka on Na Příkopě (1894 to 1896) with an extension connected by footbridges over Nekázanka. He completed the building of the Assicurazioni Generali insurance company at the corner of Wenceslas Square and Jindřišská (1895 to 1898), the palace of the Czech Chamber of Commerce and Industry on 28. října Street (in collaboration with Matěj Blecha), and the palace of the Prague Municipal Insurance Company on Old Town Square (1898 to 1900).
Osvald Polívka is also primarily known for the Municipal House in Prague, where he designed most of the interiors, and a number of apartment buildings in both the Old and New Town. At the same time as the Municipal House, Polívka also designed, among others, the Topič Publishing House Palace and the Prague Insurance Company on Národní Třída. In 1903, he won over Jan Kotěra in the competition for the new building of the U Nováků trading palace in Vodičkova Street, to which he added a second palace after 20 years.
Bankers, lawyers, insurance company directors, and others had their villas built by Osvald Polívka as well. The exhibition, in the form of photographs by Věroslav Škrabánek, presents the buildings as well as sketches from trips across Europe, which the architect used as a source of inspiration. It will last until September 28.