Rene Roubícek PRICE CHARTS
1922 Prague, Czech Repuplic - 2018 Prague, Czech Republic. Known for: Glass art and design, mixed-media collage, magic marker on paper.
Born in Prague in 1922, the world-renown glass artist René Roubícek died in his native city on Sunday, April 29, 2018, after a brief illness. Despite his age and until his last moments, Roubícek was... Read full biography
Born in Prague in 1922, the world-renown glass artist René Roubícek died in his native city on Sunday, April 29, 2018, after a brief illness. Despite his age and until his last moments, Roubícek was actively engaged in artistic pursuits and full of contagious energy. He is recognized as an artist... Read full biography
Born in Prague in 1922, the world-renown glass artist René Roubícek died in his native city on Sunday, April 29, 2018, after a brief illness. Despite his age and until his last moments, Roubícek was actively engaged in artistic pursuits and full of contagious energy. He is recognized as an artist who, from the 1940s, contributed greatly to enhancing the perception and use of glass as a full-fledged sculptural material. He was also one of the founding fathers of the European Studio Glass... Read full biography
Born in Prague in 1922, the world-renown glass artist René Roubícek died in his native city on Sunday, April 29, 2018, after a brief illness. Despite his age and until his last moments, Roubícek was actively engaged in artistic pursuits and full of contagious energy. He is recognized as an artist who, from the 1940s, contributed greatly to enhancing the perception and use of glass as a full-fledged sculptural material. He was also one of the founding fathers of the European Studio Glass movement – an internationally acclaimed phenomenon co-pioneered by Czech artists who worked with the material to realize sculptural expression decades before the United States movement began. In a highly original manner, Roubícek exploited the most natural... Read full biography
Born in Prague in 1922, the world-renown glass artist René Roubícek died in his native city on Sunday, April 29, 2018, after a brief illness. Despite his age and until his last moments, Roubícek was actively engaged in artistic pursuits and full of contagious energy. He is recognized as an artist who, from the 1940s, contributed greatly to enhancing the perception and use of glass as a full-fledged sculptural material. He was also one of the founding fathers of the European Studio Glass movement – an internationally acclaimed phenomenon co-pioneered by Czech artists who worked with the material to realize sculptural expression decades before the United States movement began. In a highly original manner, Roubícek exploited the most natural glassmaking method: close teamwork with master glassmakers in improvising at the furnace. Roubícek’s monumental objec... Read full biography
