The Bank of the Czechoslovak Legions (Czech: Banka československých legií), generally referred to as Legiobanka, was a cooperative bank in interwar Czechoslovakia. It was founded in Irkutsk in 1919 to serve the financial needs of the Czechoslovak Legion and prospered in subsequent years thanks to its strong patriotic associations. Under Nazi occupation during World War II, it was renamed Czecho-Moravian Bank in Prague (Czech: Českomoravská banka v Praze) between 1940 and 1945. It was eventually nationalized and absorbed by Živnostenská Banka in 1948.
Its head office building in Prague, designed by Josef Gočár, is so representative of the particular Czechoslovak version of art deco architecture known as rondocubism that the latter is sometimes referred to as Legiobanka style (sometimes "Legiobank style").[1]: 178
- ^ Vendula Hnídková (2013), Národní styl. Kultura a politika / National Style. Arts and Politics, Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design Prague