Jaroslava Brychtová
Czech artist Jaroslava Brychtová (1924–2020) started experimenting with glass in the 1940s. Trained in sculpture, Brychtová began her career by working with her father, Jaroslav Brychta, who cofounded the Železný Brod Glass School in 1920. Brychtová led the architectural glass department at the school starting in 1950. She met her collaborator and future husband, Stanislav Libenský, in 1954, when he became Železný Brod’s director. Together, Brychtová and Libenský experimented with casting techniques, developing a method that allowed them to produce the monumental sculptural and architectural works for which they are known.
Works
Contacts III, 1984-1987. (a) Sculptural Part H: 121.2 cm, W: 96 cm, D: 26.2 cm; (b) Sculptural Part H: 109 cm. Collection of The Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York. Gift in part of Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser (88.3.27).
Stanislav Libensky and Jaroslava Brychtová, Family Eye, made at Pilchuck Glass School with the assistance of Benjamin Moore, Richard Royal, Flora Mace and Joey Kirkpatrick, 1982. Overall H: 20.5 cm, W: 28.8 cm, D: 25.2 cm. Collection of The Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York. Gift in part of Peter and Margarete Harnisch (2001.4.22).
Big Arcus/Arcus III, 1992-1993. Overall H: 104.1 cm; Base W: 86.2 cm, D: 16.7 cm. Collection of The Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York. Gift of the artists (93.3.26).
Bibliography
“Stanislav Libenský and Jaroslava Brychtová.” Glass, no. 56 (Summer 1994): 24–29.