FRANTI©EK JANÁK, Glass artist
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BIOGRAPHY
FRANTISEK JANAK, MASTER OF ART, honorable member of the Hungarian Glass Art Society.
1951 Born in Havlickuv Brod, Czechoslovakia.
1961-67 Apprenticeship in glass cutting at the Bohemia Glassworks in Svetla n.S.
1967-71 Studies at the Secondary School of Glassmaking in Kamenicky Senov.
1971-72 Head master at the Bohemia Glassworks in Svetla n.S.
1972-75 Glass cutter at the Co-op Vytvarna remesla Prague.
1975-81 Studies at the Academy of Applied Arts in Prague under prof. Stanislav Libensky.
1981-85 Free-lance glass artist at the own studio in Dolni Mesto.
1985-88 Glass designer at the Institute of Interior and Fashion Design - UBOK Prague.
1989-93 Free-lance glass artist at the own studio in Prague.
1993-95 Glass designer at the LINEA-UBOK Prague.
1995-97 Visiting professor at the Toyama Institute of Glass Art in Toyama (TIGA), Japan.
1997-98 Free-lance glass artist at the own studio in Prague.
1998-00 Professor at the Secondary School of Glassmaking in Kamenicky Senov.
2000-01 Visiting assistant professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, USA.
2001-03 Freelance artist.
since 03 Professor at the Secondary School of Glassmaking in Kamenicky Senov.
Awards:
1981 Rector prize at the Academy of Applied Arts in Prague.
1982 Urkunde Jugend gestaltet in Munich, Germany.
1985 Special prize at the Second Coburger glass prize in Coburg, Germany.
1986 First prize at the 4th Quadrennial in Erfurt, Germany.
1988 Diploma at the exhibition of WCC-Europe in Stuttgart, Germany.
1995 Pavel Hlava prize at the International Exhibition of Glass in Kanazawa, Japan.
2000 Honorable mention at the exhibition Millennium glass in Mostly Glass, USA.
Frantisek Janak also got several prizes for industrial design in the Czech Republic.
Group exhibitions - selection:
1982 Jugend gestaltet, Munich, Germany.
1983 Three centuries of the Czech glass, Tokyo, Sapporo, Kofu, Japan.
1984 Czechoslovakian glass 84, Prague.
1985 Second Coburger glass prize, Coburg, Germany.
1986 Contemporary Czechoslovakian glass in architecture, London, Swansea, Bellingham, GB.
1987 Czechoslovakian glass sculpture, Brno, Czechoslovakia.
1988 WCC-Europe, Stuttgart, Germany.
1989 Czech glass, Paris, France.
1990 New glass in Europe, Düsseldorf, Germany.
1991 Konfigura I., Erfurt, Germany.
1992 Festival of Czech and Japanese glass, Praha, Tokyo, Hiroshima, Nagano, Japan.
1993 Czech crystal, Segovia, Spain.
1994 10th triennial of cut and engraved glass, Brno, Czech Republic.
1995 International exhibition of glass, Kanazawa, Japan.
1996 Art salon ´96, Praha, Czech Republic.
1997 World of glass, Hadeland, Norway.
1998 Moser 1857-97, Karlovy Vary, Prague, Czech Republic.
1999 Contemporary Czech glass sculpture, Zdar n.S., Czech Republic.
1999 World exhibition of art glass, Steninge Slott, Marsta, Sveden.
2000 Workshop artists - Glass symposium Frauenau, Galerie Eisch, Germany.
2000-01 Light Transfigured - Contemporary Czech Glass Sculpture, Takayama, Toyama,
Hiroshima, Fukui, Tokyo, Japan.
2001 Glass Enchantment 2001, Baush & Lomb, Rochester NY, USA.
Sources: The North American Northeast, Bevier Gallery, Rochester NY, USA.
Stanislav Libensky and his school, Technicke museum, Prague.
2002 Stanislav Libensky and his school, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Tai Wan.
Glass, Sculptures, Pictures, Glassicenter Kamenicky Senov, Czech Republic.
International engraving symposium, Glass museum Kamenicky Senov, Czech
Republic.
2003 Libensky and his
School, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, USA.
Randezvous, Glassicenter, Kamenicky Senov, Czech Republic.
Leidenschaft Glasschnitt, Glass museum Rheinbach, Germany.
One man exhibitions - selection:
1985 Museum of Ales Hrdlicka, Humpolec, Czechoslovakia.
1989 Art gallery, Cheb, Czechoslovakia.
Gallery Gottschalk-Betz, Frankfurt, Germany.
1991 Rogaland kunstner center, Stavanger, Norway.
1993 Gallery "Malinuv dum", Havlickuv Brod, Czech Republic.
"Horacka" gallery, Nove Mesto na Morave, Czech Republic.
1994 Gallery "L", Hamburg, Germany.
1996 Gallery "Nakama", Tokyo, Japan.
Gallery "U Mozarta", Prague, Czech Republic.
2000 Gallery of "Slovacke museum", Uherske Hradiste, Czech Republic.
2001 Glass Museum Rheinbach, Germany.
2002 Kunst und Form Gallery, Arnbruck, Germany.
2003 Gallery "Galerie v kostele sv. Marka, Sobeslav, Czech Republic.
Public collections:
Museum of Applied Arts, Prague, Czech Republic.
Moravian gallery, Brno, Czech Republic.
Northern Bohemia museum, Liberec, Czech Republic.
Museum glass and costume jewellery in Jablonec n.N., Czech Republic.
Western Bohemia museum, Plzen, Czech Republic.
Eastern Bohemia museum, Pardubice, Czech Republic.
Silesian museum, Opava, Czech Republic.
Gallery "Vysocina", Jihlava, Czech Republic.
Art gallery, Cheb, Czech Republic.
"Horacka" gallery, Nove Mesto na Morave, Czech Republic.
IGS Crystalex collection, castle Lemberk, Czech Republic.
Slovakian national gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia.
Glass museum, Ebeltoft, Denmark.
Ulster museum, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Finnish glass museum, Riihimäki, Finland.
Rippl Ronai museum Káposvár, Hungary.
Museum of modern art, Düsseldorf, Germany.
Collection of the city Toyama, Japan.
Koganezaki crystal park, Kamo-Mura, Japan.
Glass museum Tacoma, USA.
Glass museum Kamenicky Senov, Czech Republic.
Curently Frantisek Janak is also presented at the Czech National Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic.
Commissioned works - selection:
1986 Three stained glass windows, church in Svatoborice - Mistrin, Czech Republic.
1993 Stained glass windows and mobile fountain, Agrobank Pardubice, Czech Republic.
1995 Glass object "Waterfall", hotel Orfeus, Podebrady, Czech Republic.
1996 Glass object "Messenger", Aubade hall, Toyama, Japan.
Lectures and guest teaching - selection:
1988 Finnish Glass
Museum Riihimäki, Finland.
1989 Rogaland Kunstnersenter Stavanger, Norway.
Pilchuck Summer Glass School Seattle, USA.
CCAC Oakland, USA.
SJSU San Jose, USA.
BCFA Bakersfield, USA.
1990 The University of Industrial Arts Helsinki, Finland.
1993 The University of Industrial Arts Helsinki, Finland.
1994 The Academy of Fine Arts and Design Wroclaw, Poland.
1995 The Tama Art University Tama, Japan.
1996 The Aichi University of Education Aichi, Japan.
1997 Utsatsuama Craft Center Kanazawa, Japan.
1998 The Academy of Fine Arts and Design Wroclaw, Poland.
The Academy of Applied Arts Prague, Czech Republic.
1999 Glass Museum Rheinbach, Germany.
2000 Staatlische Glasfachschule Rheinbach, Germany.
2000 Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, USA.
2001 Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA.
GAS Conference Corning, USA.
2002 SUPSS Kamenicky Senov, Czech Republic.
SUPSS Novy Bor, Czech Republic.
RIT Rochester NY,USA.
Sheridan College, Canada.
Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, USA.
Pittsburgh Glass Center, Pittsburgh, USA.
Tacoma Glass Museum, USA.
The Academy of Applied Arts Prague.
CERFAV, Vannes-le-Chatel, France.
2003 Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, USA.
Pittsburgh Glass Center, Pittsburgh, USA.
Wheaton Village, Millville, USA.
Symposiums - selection:
1982 IGS Novy Bor, Czech
Republic.
1986 Chamber symposium Amsterdam, Netherland.
1988 IGS Novy Bor, Czech Republic.
1991 IGS Novy Bor, Czech Republic.
1993 Inter glass symposium Bardudvarnok, Hungary.
1996 Inter glass symposium Niijima, Japan.
1997 Glass Net´97, Venetia, Italy.
International symposium of cut glass Moser Crystal Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic.
1999 Inter glass symposium Tokod, Hungary.
2000 Inter glass symposium Frauenau, Germany.
2001 GAS conference Corning, USA.
2002 Young talents, CERFAV Vannes le Chatel, France.
2003 Glass
Weekend, Wheaton Village, USA.
A
SHORT PRESENTATION OF THE ARTIST BY HIMSELF
I am working with glass material since
the age of 15, when I attended a school for the apprentices to
learn cut glass. It was the school belonging to the Czech biggest
producer of hand cut lead crystal - Bohemia Glassworks. This
school was generating a future series production workers. After
one year of experience I went to the Secondary School of
Glassmaking in Kamenicky Senov, the oldest glass school in the
world - founded 1856, attending the department for glass carving
and cutting and I was also attending engraving lectures. There I
was graduating in 1971. After one year of work at my
"home" glassworks Bohemia as a head master, I moved to
Prague and worked for 3 years as a series production glass cutter
at the Co-op. In 1975 I was accepted for the studies at the
Academy of Applied Arts in Prague under the famous Czech artist
professor Stanislav Libensky. Six years later I received my MA. I
am making glass sculptures and commission works, but I also do
series production design for the different Czech Glassworks. I
also spent several years with teaching. Nowadays I am working in
my own studio in Blazejovice.
PROPOSAL OF ARTWORKS FOR AN INTERIOR
