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Jaroslav Svoboda

born Sokoleč, Czechoslovakia, 1938

BiographyJaroslav Svoboda was introduced to glassmaking as a child at his father’s grinding workshop. He attended the Applied Arts School of Glassmaking in Železný Brod, Czechoslovakia, from 1953-1957 then Charles University in Prague from 1966-1970. After working at the Office of Arts and Crafts, he became head of the glassworks at Škrdlovice. There he sponsored glass workshops with the leading glassmakers to enhance his own skills and those of others at the factory. In 1986 he became a professor and head of the glass studio at the College of Applied Arts in Prague, working there four years until founding his own glassworks in Karlov. His works can be found in the collections of the National Gallery, Prague, The Museum of North Bohemia, Kunstmuseum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, and the Corning Museum of Glass, New York among others. He has had 27 solo exhibitions of his work in the Czech Republic, Budapest, Warsaw, the Hague, Cairo, and Tokyo between 1972 and 2015. He also has created some 30 works of glass art for state, education, and industrial buildings in the Czech Republic and other parts of Europe.

For further information, visit the artist's website: http://en.ags-svoboda.cz/
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