Ing. Arch. Daniel ŠPIČKA

Ing. Arch. Daniel ŠPIČKA

Muž 1939 -  (85 let)

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  • Jméno Ing. Arch. Daniel ŠPIČKA 
    Předpona Ing. Arch. 
    Narození 5 Únor 1939  Praha, Czech Rep. Najít všechny osoby s událostmi v tomto místě 
    Pohlaví Muž 
    ID číslo osoby I1561  volesky
    Poslední změna 23 Září 2017 

    Otec MUDr Hilar (ii) ŠPIČKA,   nar. 6 Červen 1903, Praha, Czech Rep. Najít všechny osoby s událostmi v tomto místě,   zemř. 8 Prosinec 1990, Praha, Czech Rep. Najít všechny osoby s událostmi v tomto místě  (Věk 87 let) 
    Matka MUDr. Eva KUBERTOVÁ-ŠPIČKOVÁ, - plastická chirurgie,   nar. 8 Prosinec 1903, Praha, Czech Rep. Najít všechny osoby s událostmi v tomto místě,   zemř. 16 Duben 1979, Praha. Czech Rep. Najít všechny osoby s událostmi v tomto místě  (Věk 75 let) 
    Sňatek 4 Červenec 1931 
    ID číslo rodiny F620  Schéma rodiny

    Rodina Victoria WENTWORTH-REILLY-ŠPIČKOVÁ,   nar. 30 Červenec 1941, Windsor, UK Najít všechny osoby s událostmi v tomto místě  (Věk 82 let) 
    Sňatek 13 Leden 1973  London, England Najít všechny osoby s událostmi v tomto místě 
    Děti 
     1. Kateřina Wentworth ŠPIČKOVÁ-DEMELOVÁ-ZÁRUBOVÁ,   nar. 17 Květen 1974, London, England Najít všechny osoby s událostmi v tomto místě  (Věk 49 let)
     2. Lucie Wentworth ŠPIČKOVÁ-THORPE,   nar. 18 Únor 1977, Praha, Czech Rep. Najít všechny osoby s událostmi v tomto místě  (Věk 47 let)
    Poslední změna 17 Září 2016 
    ID číslo rodiny F621  Schéma rodiny

  • Poznámky 
    • From Petr PETRIK: "«b»FAMILY CHRONICLE: Family of Diana Špičková«/b»"«b»
      Ing Arch Daniel Špička«/b» -
      Daniel, his sister Diana and brother Hilar [III] spent the end of the Nazi occupation in South Bohemian country house in Libnic, where their parents believed them sheltered from the expected bombardment of Praha (their Prague flat was actually hit by a German bomb on the very last day of the war, May 8th,1945 !)
      Daniel started elementary school at the English School in Praha, which was reopened in 1945 . Unfortunately the school, as well as all other educational institutions modeled on western schools were closed immediately after the Communist takeover in 1948.
      Daniel was also a Boy Scout until Communists abolished the Scout movement in 1949. He loved to draw and paint; yet the passion of his life became music, which he first discovered through private piano lessons. As he grew up and matured the list of musical instruments he played continued to expand, as well as the range of music he performed. Besides piano and other keyboard instruments he played guitar and viola da gamba, renaissance woodwinds and brass instruments. Nonetheless, he chose to study Architecture at the Technical University in Praha. While still at the University Daniel reminisces how instead of attending his lectures at the University, he spent hours in the Archives of the Library of the National Museum in Praha copying scores of otherwise unavailable music. Later, in 1977 he founded Capella Renesex, a group of professional musicians with a mission to perform renaissance and early baroque music on authentic instruments.
      As a young boy he was deeply impressed by Alexander Dumas' Three Musketeers and vowed to master the three skills of his hero swashbuckling d'Artagnan: horse riding, fencing and shooting. Although he accomplished all three, it was horse riding he pursued with greatest passion. Since the Communist ideologists considered this activity as a decadent aristocratic pastime, it had been somewhat difficult to get into it. The riding school in Praha, which had a long tradition, and which I also attended, survived only thanks to disguising itself as a paramilitary organization. I believe it was there I met him for the first time. Subsequently Daniel used every opportunity to ride horses. During summer holidays he worked hard in breeding stables, which gave him an almost unlimited riding time, and in the Barrandov Film Studios, where he used to play extras requiring horse riding skills in historical movies.
      In 1970 he met Victoria Wentworth Reilly in Praha. Victoria was born on July 30, 1941 in Clewer, Windsor. Her father Paul Reilly was born in Liverpool and her mother Pamela Wentworth Foster in London, England. In 1957 Victoria moved with her mother to Canada, and studied at the Toronto Collegiate Institute. Subsequently she went on to study General English at Trinity College, University of Toronto, graduating in 1962 . Victoria was sent in 1970 to Praha by The Sunday Telegraph to write about the Czech glass industry. The meeting turned out to be momentous, and Daniel and Victoria married on January 13, 1973 in London, England. Victoria's move to Praha at the height of the Communist repression following the aborted "Prague Spring " of 1968 was very courageous indeed. It was the time when all hopes of regaining lost political and personal freedom were crushed. The couple continued to live with Daniel's parents in the family house U Mrázovky.
      Victoria and Daniel have two daughters: A) Katherine (Kateřina) Wentworth Špičková-Demelová, born on May 14, 1974 in London, England, and B) Lucie (Lucy) Wentworth Špičková-Thorpe, born on February 18, 1977 in Praha. (And five grandsons, now).
      As an architect Daniel devoted his career mostly to interior and furniture design, as well as the restoration of historical buildings and interiors. Daniel built up a private collection of historical musical instruments, which he restored and even built himself. The ongoing practice of music remains an important constant of his life. One of his the most notable achievements has been the founding of an annual Festival of Baroque Music in Valtice Castle in Moravia. The Festival, of which he had been an artistic director from its inception in 1989, became a cultural event with an established tradition until 2006. The result of his long involvement with Valtice has been the reconstructed Valtice Castle Baroque Theatre, designed by him and his partner Mikulas Hulec and completed in 2015.
      At the time of this writing he is as busy as ever, with many plans in both architectural restoration and music, never thinking of retirement.