In Brno, glass artist and designer František Vízner has died

Prague - This morning, a significant glass artist and designer, František Vízner, passed away at the age of 75 in a Brno hospital after a long illness. Among his well-known works are glass cladding at the Jinonice and Karlovo náměstí stations of the Prague metro. This was reported by curator Tereza Bruthansová to ČTK.
"Mr. Vízner did not wish for a public funeral; the final farewell will take place in the family circle," Bruthansová said.
Vízner was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the prestigious Czech Grand Design awards last year. In March this year, he celebrated his 75th birthday with a retrospective exhibition of his sculptural work at Prague's Nová síň.
František Vízner studied at the Prague Academy of Art, Architecture and Design in the late 1950s and early 1960s. From 1962 to 1967, while working as a designer at the Sklo Union glassworks in Dubí near Teplice, he played a crucial role in the field of pressed glass. In the following decade, as the leading artist at the now-closed glassworks in Škrdlovice, he created an exceptional collection of hand-blown utility glass. Since 1977, he dedicated himself to free studio work with shaped glass. "Although he borrowed his favorite forms of vases or bowls for his objects, which represented ideal geometry for him, the result is abstract, minimalist sculptures of timeless value," evaluates his work Bruthansová.
He is also the author of several remarkable realizations in architecture. These include glass cladding at the Jinonice and Karlovo náměstí stations of the Prague metro and lighting fixtures in the Prague Congress Center and the New Stage of the National Theatre. Last year, he designed a drinkware set for Bohemia Machine Glass.
His cut objects earned him numerous significant awards. Recent solo exhibitions were held for him, for example, at the Corning Museum of Glass in Corning, USA, and the Scremini gallery in Paris. Vízner's works are represented in the Museum of Decorative Arts at the Louvre in Paris, the Metropolitan Museum in New York, and the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo.