Gallery
Renzo Basini, artist
Adolf Beckert, glass designer, art educationalist
Josef Bernhard, sculptor, art educationalist, medal designer
Josef Drahoňovský, sculptor, fine-glass engraver and art educationalist
André Fau, artist
Richard Fischer, designer, graphic educationalist
Josef Frendlovský, sculptor, designer and graphic educationalist
Franz Hagenauer, designer stylist, interior designer
Václav Hanuš, glass designer and artist
Antonín Heythum, architect, designer of furniture, stage designer
Zdeněk Juna, graphic artist, glass sculptor and educationalist
Karl Kolaczek, sculptor
Bruno Mauder, designer and painter of glass, art educationalist and theorist, technologist
František Pazourek, designer of glass and jewellery
Mario Petrucci, painter, sculptor, glass designer
Alexander Pfohl, glass designer, painter
Václav Plátek, glass and jewellery artist, fine-glass engraver, illustrator, art educationalist
Rony Plesl, glass artist and designer stylist
Artur Pleva, glass designer, art educationalist
Eleon von Rommel, glass designer, ceramicist
Ena Rottenberg, designer of glass and ceramics
Max Schwedler, sculptor, medal designer
Ida Schwetz-Lehmann, designer of glass and ceramics
André Till, artist
Vally Wieselthier, designer of glass, ceramics and earthenware, book graphicist
Renzo Basini
artist
Basini designed the small, ornamental, moulded sculpture of "Flamingo" for the Curt Schlevogt Company around 1937.
Adolf Beckert
(1884 Česká Lípa - 1929)
glass designer, art educationalist
Beckert graduated from the Technical Glassmaking College in Nový Bor and afterwards attended the Munich studio of Wilhelm von Debschitz (1906) and the College of Applied Arts in Prague (from 1907, studies not completed). From the year 1909, he held the post of internal designer for the Loetz Glassworks in Klášterský Mlýn. Here he successfully involved himself in the patterning of compact and etched glass. He remained in close contact with the glassworks until 1925, in spite of his departure in 1911. During the Twenties, he worked firstly as a specialist teacher and eventually as the director of the Technical Glassmaking College in Kamenický Šenov (1918 - 1926) and at the Technical College in Teplice. Traditionally, he is attributed with the retrospective designs of a number of items, in particular vanity glass, which was launched on the market in 1926 by the Jablonec company of Heinrich Hoffmann.
Josef Bernhard
sculptor, art educationalist, medal designer
A sculptor working in Munich, he designed the glass moulded sculpture "Mask" for the Curt Schlevogt Company, which made up a part of the Czechoslovak exhibit acknowledged at the World Fair with a Grand Prix in Paris in 1937.
Decorative sculpture "Mask". Curt Schlevogt Company. Grand Prix Paris 1937. Height of 37 cm. (Ornela photo archive)
Josef Drahoňovský
(1877 Volavec near Turnov - 1938 Prague)
sculptor, fine-glass engraver and art educationalist
Drahoňovský graduated in 1894 from the Jewellery College in Turnov and afterwards worked for two years in Vienna as an engraver of precious stones. Studies at the College of Applied Arts in Prague were to follow (under Professors Stanislav Sucharda and Celda Klouček), which he finished in 1902. Some two years later, he established his own sculpting studio in Prague and at the same time, became Sucharda's assistant. From 1908, he worked here as a professor. He began as a sculptor, and worked, for example, on the decoration of St. Vitus Cathedral. Glass did not move to the centre of his attentions until after 1920; at the same time, he applied himself to fine-glass engraving. After 1929, his engraved gemstones made of mountain crystal were used by the Jablonec-based company of Heinrich Hoffmann as models for relief pressed bottle stoppers for flacons and tiny decorative items.
André Fau
Ornamental sculpture "Fish". Curt Schlevogt Company, around 1937. Height of 17 cm. (from the MSB collection)
Richard Fischer
(1906 Mšeno near Jablonec nad Nisou - ? Vienna)
designer, graphic educationalist
Josef Frendlovský
(1915 Štoky near Havlíčkův Brod)
sculptor, designer and graphic educationalist
Franz Hagenauer
(1906 Vienna - ?)
designer stylist, interior designer
Václav Hanuš
(1924 Mlázovice)
glass designer and artist
Vase. Jablonec Glassworks Company, Desná, 1979. Height of 25 cm. (Ornela showroom)
Antonín Heythum
(1901 Most - 1954 Rottach)
architect, designer of furniture, stage designer
Folding screen. Heinrich Hoffmann Company (design of pressed decoration by František Pazourek, 1930). Grand Prix Paris 1937. (MSB photo archive)
Zdeněk Juna
(1897 Hranice na Moravě - 1975 Prague)
graphic artist, glass sculptor and educationalist
Chess set. Heinrich Hoffmann Company, pre-1929. Grand Prix 1937. Height of the king of 9 cm. Scale of the chessboard of 50 x 50 cm. (from the MSB collection).
Karl Kolaczek
(1898 Ratibořice - 1959 Liberec)
sculptor
Liqueur set "Penguin". Curt Schlevogt, around 1935. (Ornela photo archive)
Bruno Mauder
(1877 Munich - 1948 Zwiesel)
designer and painter of glass, art educationalist and theorist, technologist
Liqueur set. Curt Schlevogt Company, post-1939. Height of the carafe of 18 cm. (carafe from the Ornela showroom, glasses from the MSB collection)
František Pazourek
(1905 Kamenický Šenov - 1997 Jablonec nad Nisou)
designer of glass and jewellery
Vase "The Big Vintage" Heinrich Hoffmann Company, around 1932. Height of 22cm. (Ornela showroom).
Mario Petrucci
(1893 Rhó di Ferrara - ?)
painter, sculptor, glass designer
Ornamental sculpture "Seagull". Curt Schlevogt Company, post-1937. Height of 31 cm. (from the MSB collection)
Ornamental sculpture "Ice mountain". Curt Schlevogt Company, around 1939. Height of 38 cm. (from the MSB collection)
Alexander Pfohl
(1894 Nový Bor - 1953 Hadamar)
glass designer, painter
Liqueur set. Heinrich Hoffmann Company, post-1931. (MSB photo archive).
Václav Plátek
(1917 Frýdštejn - 1994 Prague)
glass and jewellery artist, fine-glass engraver, illustrator, art educationalist
Ashtray. Jablonec Glassworks Company, Desná, 1958. Certificate of Merit at Expo 1958, Brussels. Height of 5 cm. (from the MSB collection)
Rony Plesl
(1965 Jablonec nad Nisou)
glass artist and designer stylist
Flacon "Krakatit". Ornela a.s., 1999 - 2000. Height of 15 cm. (Ornela showroom)
Artur Pleva
(1903 Česká Lípa - ?)
glass designer, art educationalist
Vase. Curt Schlevogt Company, post-1934. Height of 24 cm. (Ornela showroom)
Eleon von Rommel
(1894 Köln am Rhein - ?)
glass designer, ceramicist
Ornamental sculpture "Torso". Curt Schlevogt Company, around 1939. Height of 29 cm. (from the MSB collection)
Ena Rottenberg
(1893 - 1950)
designer of glass and ceramics
Ornamental sculpture "Nude". Curt Schlevogt Company. Grand Prix Paris 1937. Height of 31 cm. (from the MSB collection)
Max Schwedler
(1895 Jablonec nad Nisou - 1972 Weissenbach)
sculptor, medal designer
Ida Schwetz-Lehmann
(1883 - 1971)
designer of glass and ceramics
Ornamental sculpture "Girl in the wind". Curt Schlevogt Company, around 1937. Height of 22 cm. (Ornela showroom)
André Till
artist
Vally Wieselthier
(1895 - 1945)
designer of glass, ceramics and earthenware, book graphicist
Ornamental sculpture. Curt Schlevogt Company, around 1937. Height of 17 cm. (from the MSB collection)
An artist working in Paris, he designed the glass moulded "Fish" in two sizes and a four-piece vanity set made of crystal glass for the Curt Schlevogt Company around 1937.
Fischer was a graduate of the Jablonec Technical College where he worked as an educationalist between 1931 and 1945, and the Viennese College of Applied Arts, where he was a pupil of Josef Hoffmann. He was particularly devoted to jewellery making and work with metal. Around 1937, he designed a vase made from moulded glass with subtle ornamental decoration for the Curt Schlevogt Company.
Following the conclusion of his studies at the Turnov Technical Jewellery College in 1933, Frendlovský graduated from the College of Applied Arts in Prague (1935 - 1939). Afterwards, he worked as an external teacher at the Turnov College teaching modelling as well as the beating and engraving of metal. In 1945 and 1946, he became a professor at the State Technical College for Applied Art in Jablonec nad Nisou, teaching modelling. From 1946, he continued his pedagogical activities at the Glassmaking College in Železný Brod. He worked here as the head creative artist at the department of engraving design and model making from moulded glass. During the years 1970 - 1975, he held the position of director of the college. Between 1975 and 1987, he once again worked in Turnov. Around 1937, he designed two sets of vases, ashtrays and cigarette cases with figural embossed moulded decoration.
Hagenauer belonged to the Wiener Werkstätte (Viennese Workshops) circle. He studied at the Viennese College of Applied Arts, where he was a student of Professors Franz Cizek and Dagobert Pech. During the years 1921 - 1926, he further received education at the studios of Anton Hanak and Josef Hortmann. He designed a bust of the Madonna for the Curt Schlevogt Company as well as the sculpture "View" and the small sculptures "Duck", "Hare" and "Butterfly", which were also adopted as lid-handle pieces for cigarette cases. His work also includes a small moulded plaque featuring the head of Christ.
Hanuš studied the discipline of precious stone engraving at the Jewellery College in Turnov between 1939 and 1943 and later graduated from the University of Applied Arts in Prague (studio of applied sculpture and glass art design, 1943 - 1949). Following a short period of work at the school in the studio of his teacher, Professor Karel Štipl (1949 - 1951), he moved into production. Here he witnessed and participated in the emergence of the Artistic Centre National Enterprise for Packaging and Pressed Glass in Dubí near Teplice (1955-1957). He designed moulded glass for the Rudolf Glassworks, worked in the business of the foreign trade company Skloexport (1958 - 1960) and in 1959 and 1960, began to work together with the Jablonec Glassworks in Dolní Polubný while still an employee of Rudolf. Between 1960 and 1985 he was an internal artist of the Jablonec Glassworks Company in Desná. Products made according to his designs were acknowledged at international glass and porcelain exhibitions in Jablonec nad Nisou in 1973, 1976 and 1979. His collection of panel-cut table glass was rewarded with a medal at the XVII. International Fair of Consumer Goods in Brno in 1986.
Heythum completed his studies in architecture and structural engineering at ČVUT (Czech Technical College) in Prague in 1924. He was a member of Devetsil (a circle of young modern artists). He worked as a freelance architect and designed several residential homes and a larger number of interiors. He also dedicated himself to scenography (in cooperation with directors J. Frejka and E. F. Burian) and exhibition architecture. Among his works were, for example, the Czechoslovak pavilion for the World Fair in Brussels (1934 / 1935) and an exhibit of glass at the World Fair in Paris in 1937. In 1938, he went to the USA, where, together with Kamil Roškot, he participated in the setting-up of the interior of the Czechoslovak pavilion for the World Fair in New York. After this, he concentrated on pedagogical activities in the discipline of industrial design (New School for Social Research, New York; Californian Institute of Technology; Syracusae University).
In the years 1915 - 1917 and 1919 - 1921, he studied at the College of Applied Arts in Prague (studio of Vratislav Hugo Brunner). Between 1925 and 1938, he worked as head of the department of painting on glass at the Technical Glassmaking College in Železný Brod and in addition, he intensively applied himself to etching. His work was often carried out together with Alois Metelák. His painted and etched stained glass are also impressive. Between 1938 and 1946, he took up the position of director of the Jewellery College in Turnov and afterwards, worked at the College of Arts and Crafts in Brno (1946 - 1955). In 1955 he settled in Prague, where he worked together with the Central Graphic Centre for the glass and ceramic industry as a sculptor until 1959. In the final years of his life, he dedicated himself mainly to graphic art.
Kolaczek was a graduate of the Viennese College of Applied Arts. From 1923, he worked in Liberec with wood, ceramics and bronze. He exhibited as part of the Metznerbund, of which he was a member, and independently at the Museum of Liberec. He was awarded with first prize for his war memorial design in Litoměřice and was also the draftsman of the plates on the Valdštejn tomb in Mnichovo Hradište. In Liberec, his bust of T.G. Masaryk and a memorial to the casualties of World War II were erected.
After studying at the Munich College of Applied Arts (1899 - 1901), he worked in Munich and Stuttgart as a draughtsman. From 1910, he then took up the post of director of the Technical Glassmaking College in the Bavarian town of Zwiesel. He had already been working here as a professor since 1908. During the interwar period, he was particularly involved as an art theorist and an exponent of Functionalism. In 1941 and 1942, he designed a number of cut bowls and vases for the Ludwig Moser & Sons Company, based in Karlovy Vary. He also designed a collection of vases, carafes, cases, as well as liqueur and vanity sets at the end of the Thirties and beginning of the Forties for the Curt Schlevogt Company.
Pazourek was a graduate of the Kamenický Šenov Glassmaking College and the College of Applied Arts in Prague (1919-1922, 1922-1929, Professor Josef Drahoňovský). Between 1929 and 1931, he worked as the head of the studio of moulded glass with the Heinrich Hoffmann Company. During the years 1935 to 1949, he was active as a freelance designer of moulds and model maker. For a short time prior to 1945, he was also employed in the Brothers Císař Glassworks in Havlíčkův Brod (designer and model maker, 1938 - 1939) and in the Jablonec firms of Josef J. Hossner (head sampler, 1941 - 1943) and Kamil Bergmann (technical drawer, 1944 - 1945). Following the war, he took up the post of national administrator at the J. Schreibler composition glassworks (1946 - 1948) from where he headed to the Metal Jeweller's national enterprise (designer, 1948 - 1950). He then worked at Foreign Trade Company of Jablonex between 1950 and 1966 as a designer. He designed dozens of decorative and utility items for the Heinrich Hoffmann Company.
This native Italian spent most of his life in Vienna. He graduated from the local Academy (the studio of Professor Hans Bitterlich) and also had a study residence in Zürich, Switzerland. He was dedicated mainly to ornamental and funeral sculptures, but his work also includes Lasall's Monument in Vienna and bronze busts of F. Lehár and L. Fall. In 1928, he reconstructed the tower of Vienna castle as a Monument of the Austrian Republic. He enriched the range of the Curt Schlevogt company in the course of the second half of the Thirties with the pressed glass sculptures "Dancing girl-butterfly", "Allegory of virtue", "Horse", "Ice mountain", and "Seagull in the waves". The final two sculptures are regarded by experts as being among the peaks of artistic moulded glass as a whole from the interwar period.
Pfohl studied at the Nový Bor Glassmaking College (1908 - 1911), and then from the year 1911, at the College of Applied Arts in Vienna. His professors were Kolo Moser and Michael Powolny. During the years 1919 - 1928, he acted as the head of planning of the Josefina Glassworks studio in the Silesian town of Sklarzska Poreba. In particular, he put emphasis on the aesthetic value of products, for which he was rewarded with a great number of international prizes. From 1928, he held the position of regular professor at the Nový Bor Glassmaking College. He worked together not only with local firms (for example, Adolf Rasche, Karel Palda or Carl Wünsch), but also with the Karlovy Vary glassworks of Ludwig Moser & Sons. After 1931, he designed several dozen graphically original pieces for the Heinrich Hoffmann Company in Jablonec, in particular vanity, smoking, tea and coffee sets. The ashtray manufactured according to his design after 1935 is exemplified also in the range of the Curt Schlevogt Company. Between 1945 and 1948 he worked in the painter's workshop of his own brother, Erwin Pfohl, and afterwards he moved to Hessenland where he worked at the Technical Glass College in Hadamar.
Plátek was a graduate of the Železný Brod Glassmaking College and the College of Applied Arts in Prague (studio of František Kysela, 1935 - 1940). From 1948, he was the head artist at the studio of Artistic Glass in Nový Bor and a creative artist in The Glass of Železný Brod national enterprise and the Central Creative Centre for the Manufacture of Glass and Ceramics in Prague. Between 1957 and 1960 he worked as an internal artist at the national enterprise of Jablonec Glassworks, Dolní Polubný, for which he also designed crystalware (an ashtray made of cut glass was awarded with a Diploma of Honour at the 1958 EXPO exhibition in Brussels). After his leaving the Jablonec Glassworks, he worked as senior lecturer at the University of Applied Arts in Prague (cutting and engraving of glass and the design of utility glass, 1960 - 1977) In 1982 he was named as an artist of outstanding merit.
Plesl is a graduate of the Železný Brod Glassmaking College (1980 - 1984) as well as the University of Applied Arts in Prague, where he studied under Professors Jiří Harcuba a Vratislav Karel Novák between 1984 and 1990. Beside his authorial creations, he also successfully applies himself to glass design. For many years, he has worked together with companies such as Barovier & Toso (formerly B.A.G. Vsetín). His efforts were acknowledged with a Quality Design Award (Design Centre, 1999), and a Best Design Award SIBO Fair, 2000). Between 1998 and 2000, he designed the "Krakatit" flacon as well as a collection of ornamental bowls ("Carousel", "Nero", "Titanic" and "Noah").
Attended the Nový Bor Technical Glass Making College and afterwards graduated from the College of Applied Arts in Prague (1921 - 1927, Professors Vratislav Hugo Brunner and Josef Drahoňovský). Between 1927 and 1945, he gave lessons in modelling and glass refining at the Jablonec Technical College. He designed devotional objects and crystal ware for the Curt Schlevogt Company. Among these pieces of work are included a quadrilateral, tapered vase with embossed figural decoration, an ashtray under the commercial name of "Paegas", cigarette cases, the "Nude" vanity set, solitary flacons, atomizers, and writing sets. He also contributed liqueur sets, a small sculpture "Head of Christ", medallions with motifs of the Virgin Mary, and table clocks made of crystal glass with allegories to the four seasons of the year.
Eleon(or) von Rommel spent her study years in Italy and Switzerland. She was a student at the graphic studios of August van der Velde in Turin and Karl Bernewitz in Kassel. She also designed glass for the illustrious Viennese company of J. & L. Lobmeyr. At the end of the Thirties, she designed the moulded glass sculptures "Dreaming" and "Torso" for the Curt Schlevogt Company. Later she became a nun at the convent in Tutzing near Starnberg.
From 1916, Rottenberg studied at the Viennese College of Applied Arts and worked together with the Wiener Werkstätte. She devoted herself to designs of ceramics, glass, and the painting of decoration on ivory. For many years, she cooperated with the Viennese commercial company of J. & L. Lobmeyr and also designed several items for Schlevogt's "Ingrid" collection. The moulded sculpture "Nude" for this series was part of the exhibit acknowledged with a Grand Prix at the World Fair in Paris in 1937. She also designed a three-piece vanity set for the firm made of crystal glass with figural flacon bottle stoppers.
After graduating from Jablonec Technical College, he continued his studies at the Viennese Academy from 1915 and was a pupil of Professor Edmund von Helmer until 1928. In 1930, he returned to Jablonec, where he worked at the Technical College and, in particular, devoted himself to portrait sculpture (for example, busts of writer W. Pleyer and poet G. Leutelt). He designed a moulded sculpture of the Lourdes' Virgin Mary for the Curt Schlevogt Company
Between 1904 and 1911, Schwetz-Lehmann studied at the College of Applied Arts in Vienna. In 1911, she was witness to the emergence of the Ceramic Cooperative and also worked together with Wiener Werkstätte. In particular, she designed ceramics; she only applied herself to glass every once in a while. Her moulded sculptures "Dancing" (two variations) and "Girl in the wind", which was made by the Jablonec-based company of Curt Schlevogt, are most widely known. For the same company she then designed further female variations under the titles of "Little figure" and "Strutting girl", candleholders in the likeness of cherubs, or moulded sculptures of the Madonna, the Virgin, the Annunciation and Birth. There is also a collection of numerous designs of small devotional objects: a bust of the Virgin Mary, a hanging relief sculpture of the Virgin Mary (the complementary opposite to Pleva's Head of Christ), and five variations of the Madonna with the Baby Jesus and St. Theresa.
An artist working in Luxembourg, he designed a small ornamental moulded sculpture of the Sphinx for the Curt Schlevogt Company around the year 1939.
After having graduated from the two-year course at the Art College for Ladies and Girls, she studied at the Viennese College of Applied Arts between 1914 and 1920. From 1920, she worked together with the Wiener Werkstätte and participated in the establishment of the sales branch office of the association in New York (1929). She was an artist of considerable versatility. She was devoted to glass, ceramics, and earthenware, as well as drawing. She also designed the cover of the prestigious publication Die Wiener Werkstätte 1903-1928, published in Vienna in 1929. She designed painted glass for the International Exhibition of Ornamental Arts in Paris in 1925. The glass was made and presented by the J. & L. Lobmeyr Company. Around 1929, she was also concerned with designs of stylish cams made of coloured glass beads. During the Thirties, and according to her designs, the Curt Schlevogt Company made the five-piece "The Four elements" vanity collection with embossed decoration, "Fruit" and "Susana in the spa", the glass moulded sculptures of "Zebra" and "Calico horse", as well as candleholders and table ornaments in the shape of oriental dancers lying on a plinth.
