Jiřina Žertová | Czech Republic | web
* 1932 in Prague
photo: Gabriela Svobodová
photo: Jiří Koudelka
Education and Career
1947-1950 | State School for Graphic Arts, Prague |
1950-1955 | Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design, Prague |
Since 1956 | Independent artist, external cooperation with glass industry, design of domestic glass (Glassworks Bohemia Poděbrady), free blown and engraved glass (ÚUŘ – Škrdlovice Glassworks) |
Sixties
At the end of the fifties and in the sixties her work was completely transferred to create spacious glass culptures in glass works, that she finalize by combining the glass with metal or wood.
Seventies and Eighties
In the late seventies she starts to place her objects on painted pedestals or flats, later she beggins to use the painting also to put the finishing touches to the glass objects. Spatious wildly painted free-blown objects are typical for her work from the eighties.
After 1990
A big changeover in her work comes after the year 1990 when she goes over to painting on glass plates and by stacking them she creates interesting mirages.