Jaroslava Brychtová (1924 – 2020) was Czech contemporary artist. Her works are included in many major modern art collections, such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Victoria & Albert Museum.
Jaroslava Brychtová started experimenting with glass in the 1940s. Trained in sculpture, Brychtová began her career by working with her father, Jaroslav Brychta, who cofounded the Železný Brod Glass School in 1920. Brychtová led the architectural glass department at the school starting in 1950. She met her collaborator and future husband, Stanislav Libenský, in 1954, when he became Železný Brod’s director. Together, Brychtová and Libenský experimented with casting techniques, developing a method that allowed them to produce the monumental sculptural and architectural works for which they are known.
With their technique, the two artists worked at translating abstract concepts into glass, such as their notion of the fourth dimension, which they create with light. Their artistic approach is influenced by early 20th-century Czech Cubism and metaphysical philosophy. Of all Czech artists working in glass, Libenský and Brychtová have been the most influential worldwide. The revolutionary nature of their work was first appreciated by American and European studio glass artists at Expo 67 in Montreal, where they exhibited several important large-scale sculptures. In the 1970s, when American artists were just beginning to realize the sculptural potential of glass, Czech artists like Libenský and Brychtová were already way ahead of them, but their work was not seen. It was not until the 1980s that their status as pioneers in the field of glass sculpture became internationally recognized.
Brychtová was awarded by the University of Sunderland in 1999 and the Rhode Island School of Design in 2000. Jaroslava Brychtová, was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award from Urbanglass in Brooklyn, New York, and the Glass Art Society in 1997 and 1996, respectively. She won the Bavarian State Prize and gold medal at the Internationale Handwerksmesse in Munich, Germany, in 1995 and 1967, and received Gold Medal awards from Internationales Kunsthandwerk in Stuttgart, Germany, in 1969 and at the VIII Bienal de São Paulo, Brazil, in 1965. Brychtová was presented with the Rakow Award for Excellence in Glass from the Corning Museum of Glass in 1984, and the 1958 Grand Prize at Expo 58 in Brussels, Belgium
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| Ms. Jaroslava Brychtová |
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Hlava – Miska, 1955–56
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| Der Kuss, 1958 |
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| Poca lunex, 1958 |
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| WIinged Head I, 1962 |
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| Cubus, 1967 |
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| Family Eye, 1982 |
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| Two-piece object, 1984 |
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| Contacts III, 1984-87 |
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| Moon Face, 1986 |
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| Red Head, 1986 |
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| Table Laid for a Bride, 1986 |
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| Cross Head, 1987 |
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Head V with square eye, 1987
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Silhouette of the town I, 1988
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| Diagonale, 1989 |
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| Free Through, 1992 |
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Taking off, 1992
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| Red Pyramid, 1993 |
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| Green Eye of the Pyramid, 1993-97 |
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| Astronomical Calendar Sphere, 1994 |
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| Eye of the Pyramid, 1994 |
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| Rectangular Cube Space, 1994 |
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| Rubáš II, 1997 |
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| Cube in a sphere, 1999-2002 |
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| Horizon II, 1999 |
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| Glass sculpture |
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| Glass sculptures |
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| Red Prism in Space |
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| Unknown title |
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