Under the title My View of Life, we are exclusively exhibiting more than 50 of the last available works by the exceptional Czech sculptor and glass artist Jan Fišar, marking the 25th anniversary of the Hamburg–Prague city partnership.
Jan Fišar grew up in Prague, where he studied sculpture under Prof. Wágner. In 1966, the prominent glass artists Professor Stanislav Libenský and his wife Jaroslava Brychtová offered Jan Fišar the chance to collaborate on their project for the 1967 World Exposition in Montreal. This is how he first encountered glass art, little suspecting that this material would determine his entire future. He created glass sculptures that stand completely independently for themselves and that cannot be classified into the current movements of glass art.
Works of the artist are owned by important national and international museums, e.g. the Corning Museum of Glass (USA), National Gallery, Prague (CZ), Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa (JP), Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf (D).
The exhibited objects from the creative periods between 1988 and 2009 provide a unique insight into the oeuvre of the artist who lived from 1933 till 2010. His manifold work is the reflection of strong emotional and philosophical contents. A part of his works consisted of complicated compositions of slumped, sunken and cut hollow glass, a technique being unique in the world. In one of his later themes he developed a method that allowed his objects to explicitly show traces of their creation and that engendered their visual tension by cut and raw surfaces.
Jan Fišar – Retrospective
Exhibition date: March – July 2015
Under the title My View of Life, we are exclusively exhibiting more than 50 of the last available works by the exceptional Czech sculptor and glass artist Jan Fišar, marking the 25th anniversary of the Hamburg–Prague city partnership.
Jan Fišar grew up in Prague, where he studied sculpture under Prof. Wágner. In 1966, the prominent glass artists Professor Stanislav Libenský and his wife Jaroslava Brychtová offered Jan Fišar the chance to collaborate on their project for the 1967 World Exposition in Montreal. This is how he first encountered glass art, little suspecting that this material would determine his entire future. He created glass sculptures that stand completely independently for themselves and that cannot be classified into the current movements of glass art.
Works of the artist are owned by important national and international museums, e.g. the Corning Museum of Glass (USA), National Gallery, Prague (CZ), Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa (JP), Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf (D).
The exhibited objects from the creative periods between 1988 and 2009 provide a unique insight into the oeuvre of the artist who lived from 1933 till 2010. His manifold work is the reflection of strong emotional and philosophical contents. A part of his works consisted of complicated compositions of slumped, sunken and cut hollow glass, a technique being unique in the world. In one of his later themes he developed a method that allowed his objects to explicitly show traces of their creation and that engendered their visual tension by cut and raw surfaces.