Dimensions: 36 x 24 x 24 cm (dimensions of the largest work)
Biography
René Roubíček (January 23, 1922 - April 29, 2018) was a Czech glass artist, designer, painter, musician and teacher. He was one of the leading figures in world art glass of the 20th century. As a teacher at the Vocational Glass School in Kamenický Šenov, an artist at the Vocational Glass School in Železný Brod and chief artist of the Borské sklo company, he was at the birth of Czech studio glass.
In the late 1960s, he was an external professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. From 1969 he was an independent artist and worked with Crystalex, Moser, Lasvit, Preciosa and many glassworks. Until the age of 96, he created free-form sculptures in blown and hand-formed solid, fused and plate glass.