Ivana Houserová

Ivana Houserová (2009)

Anděl (Angel) by Ivana Houserová

Glass Service Afternoon by Ivana Houserová

Ivana Houserová (born June 25, 1957 in Jablonec nad Nisou , Czechoslovakia ; † June 5, 2015 in Kněžmost ) was a Czech glass artist and designer.

Life

Houserová studied from 1972 to 1976 at the School of Applied Arts in Železný Brod in the glass engraving department. She then studied from 1976 to 1982 at the Academy for Art, Architecture and Design in Prague at the glass studio with Stanislav Libenský . She received further artistic experience and impulses for her own work in the summer of 1988 at the Pilchuck Glass School in Pilchuck / Washington with Jiří Harcuba and Ronald Pennell . In 1995 she first exhibited as an artist in the Musée du verre de Sars-Poteries in France .

In 1985, 1988 and 2006 she took part in several international symposia on glass and glass art in Nový Bor and in 1997 in Leerdam .

In the 1984/85 school year she taught a course for glass engravers at the School of Applied Arts in Železný Brod; in 2008 she returned to school and was responsible for the students in the glass cutting and grinding department until her death.

Houserová was killed in a house fire in Drhleny, a district of the northern Czech municipality of Kněžmost , in June 2015 at the age of 57.

Exhibitions

• New Bedford Museum of Glass, New Bedford , United States
• The Mary C. O'Keefe Cultural Center of Arts and Education, Ocean Springs , United States
• Corning Museum of Glass , Corning , United States
• Ebeltoft Glass Museum , Denmark
• Musee du Verre de Sars-Poteries, France
• Museum of Fine Arts, Houston , United States
• Museum of Glass and Jewelery , Jablonec nad Nisou , Czech Republic
• Moravian Gallery in Brno, Brno , Czech Republic
• North Bohemian Museum , Liberec , Czech Republic
• Decorative Arts Museum , Prague, Czech Republic
• IGS Crystalex, Lemberk Castle , Czech Republic
• Regional library, Weiden , Germany
• Glass Museum Coesfeld , Germany

Awards

State Prize of the Bavarian State Government in the form of a gold medal

• 1982: School award of the Academy for Art, Architecture and Design Prague , Czechoslovakia
• 1984: Youth designed, International Crafts Fair , Munich
• 1985: Bavarian State Prize with Gold Medal, IHM, Munich
• 1987: Gold Star for Quality, BID - Business Initiative Direction, San Antonio , United States
• 1989: NAC Business Excellence Award - National Academy of Commerce, San Antonio
• 1995: Swarovski Award, 2nd Prize - Museum of Applied Arts in Prague
• 1996: Grand Prix II. International Triennial Glass Art Nuremberg , Germany
• 1997: Excellent Design 1996 - Design Center of the Czech Republic
• 1999: Cena Rudolfa II of the Academy of Fine Arts, Prague , Czech Republic

further reading

• Petrová Sylva: České sklo . Gallery, Praha, 2001, ISBN 80-86010-44-9 , pp. 61, 75, 79, 116, 123, 144, 215, 225, 244, 264, 275, 276, 277, 279.
• Langhamer Antonín: Legenda o ceském skle . Tigris, Zlín 1999, ISBN 80-86062-02-3 , pp. 242, 254, 290.
• Petr Nový, Havlíčková Dagmar: Zázračné prameny . Lázeňské a upomínkové sklo. Muzeum Skla a Bižuterie, Jablonec nad Nisou 2009, ISBN 978-80-86397-09-2 , pp. 143-147, 220.
• Susanne Frantz: Contemporary Glass . A world survey from the Corning Museum of Glass. New York, 1989, ISBN 0-87290-120-3 , p. 116.
• Mergl Jan, Pánková Lenka: Moser 1857–1997 . For the 140th anniversary of the Moser company in Karlsbad. (= Writings of the Passau Glass Museum. 3). Moser , Karlovy Vary / Tittling 1997, ISBN 3-927218-96-0 , pp. 288, 306, 310, 341, 348, 351.
• Langhamer Antonín: Skleněný svět Ivany Houserové . In: Keramika a sklo. 5/2004, Prague, ISSN  1214-5548 , p. 3, 20-23.
• Rossini Pavla: Connections '09 European Glass Sculpture . In: New Glass. 1/2009, New York, p. 21.
• Langhamer Antonín: The World of Glass Ivana Houserova. In: Sklár a ceramics. Glass and ceramic Industries. 9-10 / 2012, Jablonec nad Nisou, ISSN  0037-637X , pp. 243, 262, 263.

Web links

Commons : Ivana Houserová  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Official website of Ivana Houserová
• Ivana Houserová on supss.cz
• Ivana Houserová on prazskagalerie.cz
• Profile of Ivana Houserová on scottjacobsongallery.com
• Ivana Houserová on studioglass.co.uk
• European art sculptures coming to downtown Ocean Springs - gulflive.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Houserová, Ivana (Czech Glassmaker, born 1957). on: getty.edu
2. ^ Obituary of the University of Applied Glass Art in Železný Brod on Facebook on June 7th, 2015. Accessed on June 13th, 2015 (Czech).
3. ↑ Czech Glasart, Ivana Houserová, Biography ( Memento of the original from February 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed April 28, 2013. 
4. ↑ Czech Glasart, Ivana Houserová, Awards and Prizes ( Memento of the original from February 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.