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An Important Private Collection on Czech Glass Art 1945-2000Press Release
Auction House Dr. Fischer
Germany
Trappenseeschlösschen
74074 Heilbronn
Important Private Collection “Dittrich”
Czech Glass-Art 1945-2000
Part I
Thursday, 12 February 2009
Viewing: 8-12 February 2009
Commencing: 6 pm
Auction House Dr. Fischer gladly announces the upcoming sale - the important private collection “Dittrich-Czech Glass-Art 1945-2000” taking place in Heilbronn on 12 February 2009 at 6 pm.
The Austrian collector Alfred Dittrich (born 1925) always kept in touch with Czech glass artists and received a deep insight to the complex Czech and Slovakian glass scene.
It is a high quality offer of international well-kown artists like Bohumil Elias, Stanislav Libensky and Jaroslava Brychtova, Vera Liskova, Rene Roubicek or Ivo Rozsypal.
Bohumil Eliáš, although working with a brush and cavas as well, has chosen glass. On one side, he paints acrylic images, on the other he has an efficiant assistant, who, similarly to the retina of the human eye, is capableof reflection and breaking of light, creation of light spectre, even add firm shapes to optical reflections. Glass is a living organism enough, it breathes and creates a characteristic alter ego for the painter.
Rene Roubicek “But one thing strikes me immediately first sight: the roundness of their sculptures and objects - they not only have curvatures, they enhance them, they magnify them. It is partly because they use two techniques which create mostly the curved shapes: moulded glass and blown glass. Both techniques are probably the oldest ways of forming the glass and it takes a lot of inspiration to be able to come up with something new and strikingly beautiful. They are also very difficult methods, but the results are well worth the efforts.”
Jan B. Hurych
The Czech couple Stanislav Libensky and Jaroslava Brychtova became famous worldwide for its monumental glass sculptures. Both are considered as the most important artists of the 20th century in conjunction with the material glass.
Libensky/Brychtova gave the sculputure a new dimension in the 20th century. The works became famous worldwide by the presentation at the World exhibitions in Brüssel (1958), Montreal (1967) and Osaka (1979), and they were honored by numerous art awards.
Stanislav Libensky and Jaroslava Brychtova about their handling of the glass material: „Glass renders us possible, to organise the substance and the interior consciously. The translucence of the light bares, defines and builds the coloured expression of the sculpture. The colour and vibration space - mysterious, dynamic, cool and intimate - is a medium of our message.
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