What's in a Prague street name

Every street in Prague, one by one.

Category: Expressionism

  • Fillova was built in 1962. Emil Filla was born in Chropyně, near Kroměříž, in 1882, and grew up in Brno. After graduating, he got a job as a clerk at an insurance company, but soon decided office life wasn’t for him and headed for Prague. He started studying monumental painting at the Academy of Fine…