Alois Dryák
Alois Dryák was Czech architect and professor of ornamental design.
Dryák is most famous for the design of the ornamental detail on Art Nouveau masterpieces such as
the 1905 re-design of the Hotel Europa in Prague, Czech Republic, done with fellow architect Bedřich Bendelmeier and architectural sculptor Ladislav Šaloun.
The Europa and another Dryák commission, the Hotel Garni, are both located on Wenceslas Square, which is dominated by an equestrian statue of Saint Wenceslas. Dryak designed the ornate pedestal of this statue. His work was part of the architecture event in the art competition at the 1932 Summer Olympics.- the nephew and namesake of Alois Dryák, the architect.
