Josef Fanta (7 December 1856 in Sudoměřice u Tábora – 20 June 1954 in

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) was a Czech architect, furniture designer, sculptor and painter. A student of

Josef Zítek Josef von Zítek (18321909) was a Czech architect best known for two Neo-Renaissance landmarks in Prague, the National Theatre and the Rudolfinum.Art Nouveau Art Nouveau (; ) is an international style of art, architecture, and applied art, especially the decorative arts. The style is known by different names in different languages: in German, in Italian, in Catalan, and also known as the Modern ...

architecture. He created many notable public architectural works including the Prague Railway Station (first called the Franz Josef Station, and nicknamed "one of the final glories of the dying empire") the Ministry of Trade Building in Prague, the

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, and the 1912 Peace Monument in

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which commemorates the

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. From 1918, Fanta was a member of the Czech Academy of Sciences and Arts.

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