Jakub Bursa (21 July 1813 in
Dolní Nekvasovice – 19 August 1884 in
Vlachovo Březí
Vlachovo Březí (german: Wällisch Birken, Wällischbirken) is a town in Prachatice District in the South Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 1,700 inhabitants. The town centre is well preserved and is protected by law as an urban ...
) was a
Czech
Czech may refer to:
* Anything from or related to the Czech Republic, a country in Europe
** Czech language
** Czechs, the people of the area
** Czech culture
** Czech cuisine
* One of three mythical brothers, Lech, Czech, and Rus'
Places
*Czech, ...
architect, folk artist and builder of Bohemian
Rustic Baroque architecture. He decorated many gables of houses in
Southern Bohemia
The South Bohemian Region ( cs, Jihočeský kraj; , ) is an administrative unit (''kraj'') of the Czech Republic, located mostly in the southern part of its historical land of Bohemia, with a small part in southwestern Moravia. The western part ...
in the style of the so-called rural ''
South Bohemian Baroque
South is one of the cardinal directions or compass points. The direction is the opposite of north and is perpendicular to both east and west.
Etymology
The word ''south'' comes from Old English ''sūþ'', from earlier Proto-Germanic ''*sunþaz ...
''.
Czech architects
1813 births
1884 deaths
19th-century Czech architects
People from Prachatice District
{{CzechRepublic-architect-stub