Metadata: Kan Jiří, Ing. arch.
Collection
- Country:
- Czechia
- Holding institution:
- Archives of the Jewish Museum in Prague
- Holding institution (official language):
- Archiv Židovského muzea v Praze
- Postal address:
- Stroupežnického 32, Praha 5, 150 00
- Phone number:
- 00420222749111
- Web address:
- http://www.jewishmuseum.cz/
- Email:
- office@jewishmuseum.cz
- Reference number:
- 264
- Title:
- Kan Jiří, Ing. arch.
- Title (official language):
- Kan Jiří, Ing. arch.
- Creator/accumulator:
- Jiří Kan
- Date(s):
- 1865/1942
- Language:
- English
- Czech
- German
- Slovak
- Extent:
- 0.19 linear metres
- Type of material:
- Photographic images
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The fonds contains personal and family records, family photographs, various building photographs and plans, newspaper clippings, photo albums of the construction of a sanatorium in Vyšné Hágy, various sketches and drawings.
- Archival history:
- The material was donated to the Jewish Museum in Prague in 1947.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Ing. arch. Jiří Kan (1895, Riga, Latvia – 1944, Auschwitz). He attended the Technische Hochschule in Berlin. Together with František A. Libra, he designed the Central Social Insurance Company in Smíchov, Prague, in 1936. In collaboration with Libra, he designed factories in the Prague districts of Hlubočepy and Vysočany, as well as a number of tenement houses and villas. He also designed buildings for saving banks in various cities. His most prestigious design was the Masaryk Sanatorium for the treatment of tuberculosis and lung diseases in VyšnéHágy in the High Tatras, which is an internationally important work of functionalist architecture. He was deported to the Terezín ghetto during the war and perished in Auschwitz.
- Access points: locations:
- Vyšné Hágy
- Access points: persons/families:
- Kan, Jiří
- Finding aids:
- Hanková M: Jiří Kan, Ing. arch. (1895-1944), Inventář, 2015, 6 s., AP č. 345
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP Survey, 2015.
