Villa of Dušan Jurkovič, Art Nouveau villa in Brno-Žabovřesky, Czech Republic.
Villa of Dušan Jurkovič is a house on Jana Nečase street in Brno-Žabovřesky, built in 1906. Its roughly square plan rises into a varied mass with bay windows and an irregular cluster of gables; the entrance is covered by a stone veranda of three kinds of stone, and the upper floor has a half-timbered frame filled with cork panels.
The residence was completed in 1906 as a private home for Slovak architect Dušan Jurkovič. It was built during his productive period on the Czech architectural scene.
The villa's decoration draws on Moravian and wider Central European folk motifs rather than Slovak traditions: the gable ornaments derive from folk patterns, one niche is painted with small ornaments like a žudro, and a glass mosaic by painter Adolf Kašpar with a dragon-tale scene was set in one gable.
The residence is located on Jana Nečase street and can be visited with guided tours that explain its architectural features. Visitors should check opening hours before planning a visit.
In one of the gables a glass mosaic by painter Adolf Kašpar showed a scene from a dragon fairy tale. Jurkovič also had a small niche painted with ornaments like a žudro, and elsewhere hung a painting of a woman with a cattle team.
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