What's in a Prague street name
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Category: 1965
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Panuškova was built in 1965. Jaroslav Panuška was born in Hořovice, near Beroun, in 1872. By the age of ten, he had already painted his first watercolour. His family moved to Prague, and he attended secondary school in Smíchov. In 1889, Panuška started studying painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. After several…
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Kovařovicova was built in 1965. Karel Kovařovic was born in Prague’s Malá Strana in 1862, into a family so musical that it even formed its own orchestra. Kovařovic studied harp, piano and clarinet at the Prague Conservatory of Music, graduating in 1879. Among those he studied under was the composer Zdeněk Fibich (https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2023/01/14/prague-3-day-143-fibichova/). In 1881,…
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Vikova was built in 1965. Karel Vik was born in Hořice, near Jičín, in 1883. From 1902 to 1906, he studied landscape painting at the Royal Academy of Arts in Prague. He won an award for being the best student in his field, and, upon graduating, used this to visit Italy and the Balkans. Within…
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Halasova was built in 1962. František Halas was born in Brno-Husovice in 1901. His parents were textile workers; his father had been imprisoned for his communist beliefs, and his mother died in 1908. These experiences would greatly influence his career as a poet. When WW1 started, Halas’s father was called up to the front, where…
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Radova was built in 1965. Vlastimil Rada was born in České Budějovice (recently covered on https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2026/04/26/prague-4-day-368-budejovicka/) in 1895, but lived in Prague from 1904. From 1908 to 1912, as well as going to regular school, he attended landscape painting classes given by Václav Jansa, and then studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts, graduating…
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Jitřní was built in 1965. When we were still in Braník, we started on what is a four-part set of streets named after times of day: https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2026/01/14/prague-4-day-279-poledni/. ‘Jitro’ means ‘morning’, and I now have to sheepishly admit that I’ve been spelling it as ‘jítro’ until today. Ah well, we live and learn. Czechs will often look…
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Hudečkova was built in 1965. Antonín Hudeček was born just outside Ředhošť, near Litoměřice, in 1872. After finishing school in Roudnice, he moved to Prague in 1887 to study at the Academy of Fine Arts (AVU). In 1895 – and after a two-stint of studying in Munich from 1891 to 1893 – he set up…
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