 | | 10 Years Glasgalerie Hittfeld
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After school I worked in the centre of all that was happening in glass - in the glass works in Novy Bor and in this way became acquainted with industrial glass pro- duction. In addition, whilst I was there, I had the possibility to visit the artists’ studio which was to represent Czechoslovakian glass at the World Exhibition in Montreal.
Two years later I went to Prague to study art in the pedagogical faculty of the Karls University. It was a coincidence that precisely in this year this branch of studies was attached to a special pedagogical subject. In this way I came to graduate not only art but also in the teaching of psychically ill children. In this way I came
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to graduate not only art but also in the teaching of psychically ill children. My State Examinations were of course in the field of art, but this additional education did not pass me by without trace.
It was as a result of this that I later worked in child psychiatry and at a special school for children, where eventually I became the director.
At every moment in the school, when communication in words was difficult or impossible, drawing proved itself again and again as a means of communication. In this way the two facets of my education met together and I began to make comparisons between the drawings of ‘normal’ children and those of psychically ill children. This was intended to be the theme of my doctor’s thesis. However, this was not to be.
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