Dušan Jurkovič, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Slovak architect
Date of Birth: 23-Aug-1868
Place of Birth: Myjava, Trenčín Region, Slovakia
Date of Death: 21-Dec-1947
Profession: architect
Zodiac Sign: Virgo 
About Dušan Jurkovič
- Dušan Samo Jurkovic (23.
- august 1868 Turá Lúka, now a part of Myjava – 21.
- december 1947 Bratislava) was slovak architect, furniture designer, artist and etnographer.
- One of the best-known promoters of Slovak art in 20th century Czechoslovakia, he is remembered mostly due to his projects of numerous World War I cemeteries in Galicia and thanks to his wooden works of spa complex in Luhacovice and mountain cottage hotel Mamenka and canteen Libušín Pustevny na Radhošti.
- Thanks to his artistic work with wood, he is referred to as "the poet of timber".
- His architectonic style was a unique fusion of folk architecture and then-popular architectonic styles, mostly associated with Art Nouveau.
- Jurkovic repeatedly stressed: The work of art is rooted in the time.
- I also have always cautiously listened to its voice."
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