Ivo Rozsypal | Czech Republic | web

* August 12, 1942, Brno, Czechoslovakia

1950	First significant creative expressions – portrait drawings, studies of nature
1948–56	Eight years spent at an Elementary school in Brno
1953–59	In several stages studies of drawing and painting under leadership of relative and painter Bohumír Matal, a member of the Group 42, Brno
1956–59	Grammar School, Brno
1959–61	Secondary Industrial Glass School /SPŠS/ Kamenický Šenov
1961–63	Obligatory military service
1963–66	Studios Borské Sklo, Nový Bor, plant Stained Glass, art glazier, a period of important practice in the handicrafts branch – classical painted stained glass enclosed in lead, sandblasting, etching, cutting of flat glass, lighting fixtures
1966–68	Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design /VŠUP/, Prague, the Glass Studio Professor Stanislav Libenský, studies broken in 1968
1968–69	University of Caen, Caen 14 Calvados, France – studies of French
1969–70	University of Cologne – studies of German, admitted to the State Art Academy of Fine Arts, Professor Hoehme, Düsseldorf, Germany – studies started but not finished, Return to Czechoslovakia
1970–73	Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design /VŠUP/, Prague, the Glass Studio Professor Stanislav Libenský, finishing the studies
1973–83	Independet artist, company Crystalex, Nový Bor, a period of important practice as a designer, great experience, a wide range of technologies, designs of painted free formed, cut, pressed glasses, experience in the field significantly influenced also the development of free individual creation
	Together with activities in designing for industrial manufacture beginnings of individual creativity – free objects – cased, sandblasted and cut discs featuring birds and abstract circular compositions. Free objects processed at the furnace – especially objects motivated by music systems of demanding hot applications, so-called macaroni
	Beginnings of co-operation with architects – designs and realization of frequently large works for public areas – stained glass, walls, lighting fixtures etc.
1973	First realization for architecture – painted stained glass window for the Virgin Mary Assumption Church in Brno
1983	Since 1983 an independent artist in free profession Designing works for industry finished
	Accented works for architecture, creation of glass objects, drawing, painting
	Many works designed and realized since, used various technologies both classical and quite new ones, co-operation with excellent craftsmen
1983	Since 1983 used cementing of parallel cut layers for individual free objects
1984	Since 1984 as the basic supporting material used flat opaque glass opaxit /Chodopak/
1993–94	For the first time the technology of glass cutting by water jet used Wide exhibiting activities both at home and abroad

Lives and works in Nový Bor, U Studánky 679

A very limited compilation of numerous awards

1975–83	Several times the Best Product of the Year (Crystalex branch enterprise, Institute of Industrial Design - Selected for CID, Federal Ministry of Investment Development, Ministery of Industry of the Czech Republic)
1979	International Exhibition of Glass and Porcelaine, Jablonec nad Nisou, two awards
1980	Zentralschweizer Glaspreis, Luzern, CH
1984	(Výroční cena SČVU a ČFVU) The Annual Prize of SČVU and ČFVU (Union of Czech Creative Artists and Czech Fund of Creative Arts)
1988	Certificate of Excellence, Internat. Art Competition, New York, USA
1995	Kanazawa, JAP, Silver Prize

Representation in publlc and private collections

• Amstelveen – Holland, Museum Jan van der Togt
• Bocholt – Germany, Dr. Michael Dolff Collection
• Brno, The Moravian Gallery in Brno
• Corning, New York – USA, The Corning Museum of Glass
• Coesfeld – Germany, Glass Museum Ernsting Foundation
• Drachselsried – Germany, Collection of the Glass Gallery Hermann
• Düsseldorf – Germany, The Art Museum of Düsseldorf
• Ebeltoft – Denmark, Glass Museum
• Frauenau – Germany, The Glass Museum Frauenau
• Jablonec nad Nisou, The Museum of Glass and Costume Jewellery
• Jelenia Gora – Paland, Museum
• Kamenický Šenov – The Glass Museum
• Lausanne - Switzerland, The Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts – former The Museum of Decorative Arts of Lausanne
• Liberec,The North-Bohemian Museum
• Luxembourg – L, Malou – Majerus Collection
• Mannheim – Germany, The Municipal Art Hall Mannheim
• Munich – Germany, Jan Vícha Collection
• Monte Carlo, The Monaco Art Centre
• Nový Bor, a part of the Castle Lemberk, Crystalex Exhibition – The Exhibition of Works from the International Glass Symposia IGS
• Nový Bor, The Glass Museum
• Prague, The National Gallery – Permanent exhibition – Art of 19th, 20th, 21 st Centuries – Czech Art since 1930 to Present – since 2000 a long-term loan from the Museum of Applied Arts possession
• Prague, The Museum of Applied Arts
• Sapporo – Japan, The Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art
• Vienna – Austria, Czech Glass Art 1945–2000 – Dr. Alfred Dittrich Collection
• Vienna – Austria, The Viennese Glass Museum – Lobmeyr
• Wrocław – Poland, The National Museum
• Zürich – Switzerland, The Museum Bellerive and private collections in Europe and overseas

Solo exhibitions

1978	Prague, Karolina Gallery, Ivo Rozsypal – Glass, Blanka Nepasická – Jewel, leaflet
	Vienna – Austria, J. & L. Lobmeyr Gallery, Glass in Movement – Kepka Brothers, Ivo Rozsypal, Vladimír Kepka, Zdeněk Kepka, Ivo Rozsypal/, leaflet
1979	Essen – Germany, Essener Glass Gallery – Gerd Kruft, Czechoslovak Glass Art Today /Vladimír Jelínek, Ivo Rozsypal, František Vízner/, brochure
1984	Prague, New Hall, Ivo Rozsypal. Ten Years of Creative Co-operation with the Branch Company Crystalex Nový Bor, catalogue by Antonín Langhamer
1987	Frankfurt am Main – Germany, Gottschalk-Betz Gallery Air, Water, Earth and Civilization, catalogue by Miroslav Klivar
1988	Zürich – Switzerland, Sanske Gallery Ivo Rozsypal - New Works, leaflet
1989	Seevetal near Hamburg – Germany, Hittfeld Glass Gallery, Ivo Rozsypal – New Works, leaflet
	Ústí nad Labem, Emil Fila Exhibition Hall, Ivo Rozsypal – Preliminary Sketches and Realizations in Architecture, catalogue
1990	Den Haag – Nederland, Rob van den Doel Gallery, Ivo Rozsypal – Contemporary Glass, leaflet
1994	Prague, Rob van den Doel Gallery, Glass Architecture
1995	Den Haag – Nederland, Rob van den Doel Gallery, Laminated Objects /lvo Rozsypal, Gábor Gonzales, László Lukácsi, Géza Sigmund/, leaflet
	Prague, AGB Gallery, Ivo Rozsypal – the cycle Contemporary Czech Art 1, brochure Sylva Petrová
1999	Naarden – Nederland, Groll Gallery, Architectonic Beauty in Glass. Ivo Rozsypal – Glass Sculptures and Drawings, leaflet

Very extensive participation in collective exhibitions.
Numerous implementations in architecture and public spaces.

Ivo Rozsypal
U Studánky 679
Nový Bor
473 01

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