Pavel Opocensky - Artist Info

About Pavel Opocensky

  • Biography

    Pavel Opocensky was born in Karlov Vary, Czechoslovakia in 1945. After an apprenticeship in a metal workshop he started working in jewelry and sculpture. Due to governmental restrictions he left his country for the USA in 1982. Shortly after that he held his first exhibition in New York.

    In 1990 he returned to Czechoslovakia and until today lives and works in Prague. He mainly designs jewelry, but he is also known for his large-scale stone sculptures and ivory works. Many international collection are in possession of his works, such as American Craft Museum, New York, Rockefeller Foundation, New York, The Brooklin Museum, New York and the Museum of Arts and Crafts in Prague. (nlu)

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