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Ostrovni street – Vojtech Hynais

Vojrech Hynais buste

Where: This bust with plaque is located on Ostrovni 2 in Prague 1, right behind the National Theatre (Narodni Divaldo). GPS 50.080409, 14.414020

What: It is a bust with a plaque of text that commemorates Vojtech Hynais. It reads; “Here, the famous Czech painter Vojtěch Hynais lived and died, the creator of the National Theater curtain. To our Honorary Chairman from the Unity of Artists in Prague”. It was installed in 1933 and created by Jakub Obrovsky.

Who: Vojtech Hynais (14 January 1854, Vienna – 22 August 1925, Prague) was a prominent Czech painter. He mainly painted religious and mythological images, focusing on integrating the human and the natural using particularly female nudes. Vojtech is mostly remembered for creating a new curtain for the National Theater after the fire of 1881. The curtain celebrates the dedication of the Czech nation that was showed in rebuilding the National Theater. He also was a professor at the Prague Academy of Fine Arts. He is buried at the famous Vysehrad cemetery.

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Lesnicka street – Albert Einstein

Where: This bust is located on Lesnicka street number 7 in Prague 5 . This street is between the Jiraskuv and Palackeho bridges . GPS: 50.073837, 14.408589

What: It is a bust of the famous scientist Albert Einstein. The text below the bust reads “Here lived and worked in 1911-1912 Albert Einstein” The bust was unveiled on the 13th of March 1979.

Who: Albert Einstein (14th of March 1879 – 18th of April 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist who is most famous for developing the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics. Already the author of this Theory, Einstein moved in April of 1911 to Prague where he was appointed as the professor of theoretical physics at Prague’s Charles University. He worked and lived in Prague only for 16 months. In July of 1912 he accepted the chair of theoretical physics at the Polytechnical Institute of Zurich in Switzerland. This ended his stay in Prague.

Preslova street and namestí 14. rijna: Frantisek Langer

Where: On the corner of Preslova street and Náměstí 14. října (14th of October square) in Smichov, Prague 5. GPS 50.073166, 14.408125

What: It is a bust of Frantisek Langer with the text “In this house lived from 1945 to 1965 František Langer, writer”. The bust was created by Kurt Gebauer and was unveiled on the 2nd of August 1995.

Who: Frantisek Langer (3rd of March 1888 – 2nd of August 1965) was a physician and writer, and considered one of the best Czech dramatists of the interwar period.

As a physician Langer served in the Czechoslovak Legions in Russia during World War I. After the war, he served in the medical corps of the Czech army and continued his literary career. His most notable works are: Velbloud uchem jehly (1923; The Camel Through the Needle’s Eye), a comedy about lower-class life. Periferie (1925; “The Outskirts”), a psychological drama and Jízdní hlídka (1935; “The Cavalry Watch”) which was based upon his experiences with the legion.

In 1939 Langer went to England and spent World War II as a member of the Czechoslovakian army abroad (brigade general). He only returned to his home after World War II. The postwar Communist government did not allow him to publish new work until the late 1950s.