Famous People with Name Bohuslav

Bohuslav Fuchs            Origin/Culture/Country: Czech

Bohuslav Fuchs: was a Czech modernist architect.A mason by education, he studied at Academy of Fine Arts in Prague in 1916-1919 by Jan Kotera and then he worked in Kotera's atelier for two years. From 1922 he resided in Brno, where he worked at city construction office and later (from 1929) in his own atelier. In 1947-1958 Fuchs was a professor of architecture at Brno University of Technology. He participated in several professional associations abroad (e. g. British RIBA). His projects, realized mainly in Brno, were influenced predominantly by functionalism.

Bohuslav Martinu            Origin/Culture/Country: Czech

Bohuslav Martinu: was a prolific Bohemian Czech composer, who wrote six symphonies, 15 operas, 14 ballet scores and a large body of orchestral, chamber, vocal and instrumental works.He became a violinist in the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, and taught music in his home town. In 1923 Martinu left Czechoslovakia for Paris, and deliberately withdrew from the Romantic style in which he had been trained. In the 1930s he experimented with expressionism and constructivism, and became an admirer of current European technical developments, exemplified by his orchestral works Half-time and La Bagarre. He also adopted jazz idioms, for instance in his Kuchynské revue ("Kitchen Revue"). Of the post-war avant-garde styles, neo-classicism influenced him the most. He continued to use Czech and Moravian folk melodies throughout his oeuvre, usually nursery rhymes—for instance in Otvírání studánek ("The Opening of the Wells").

Bohuslav Karlík            Origin/Culture/Country: Czech

Bohuslav Karlík: was a Czech flatwater canoer who competed from the late 1930s to the early 1950s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won the silver in the C-1 1000 m event at Berlin in 1936.Karlík won a complete set of medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold in the C-2 10000 m (1938), a silver in the C-2 1000 m (1938), and a bronze in the C-2 10000 m events (1950).

Bohuslav Kirchmann            Origin/Culture/Country: Czech

Bohuslav Kirchmann: was a Czech Olympic fencer. He competed in five events at the 1936 Summer Olympics.