František Marek

Czechoslovakia
Czechoslovakia
Games Participations1
First Olympic GamesLondon 1948
Year of Birth1899

Biography

Czechoslovakian architect František Marek received an Honorable Mention at the 1948 London Olympics in the Art Competitions in the category Architectural Design for his work Photographs and Plans of “Gymnasium for Sokols, Prague XII.” Marek studied at the Praha Academy of Fine Arts from 1922-26. His most famous work was the War Memorial in Lidiče, where in 1942, after the assassination of the head of the Reich Security Main Office Reinhard Heydrich, all male residents were shot by the SS in retaliation, and the village was razed to the ground. Marek was among the leading members of the Association of Fine Artists and mostly built in Praha.

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