Vlastimil Beránek

Vlastimil Beránek is a contemporary artist known for his mastery with Bohemian glass working in Stržanov, a small town near Žďár nad Sázavou in the Czech Republic.

Vlastimil Beránek
Vlastimil Beránek at work
Born (1960-07-03) July 3, 1960
Nové Město na Moravě, Czechoslovakia
Known forBohemian Glass Sculpture

Life and work

Vlastimil Beránek is a member of a glass-making family, who in the 1940s established a glass workshop at a small village named Škrdlovice, Czech Republic. He is high school and university art educated sculptor. He was trained by Stanislav Libenský

He has in recent years dedicated his love of crystal to producing unique sculptures.[1] His artworks are sizeable kiln-cast glass sculptures.[2]

Mr. Vlastimil Beránek with his sculpture named Venus.

Education

Beránek gained his art education at the specialized school of decorative arts in Brno and also at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague, in the atelier of Professor Stanislav Libenský.

Collections, exhibitions

Beránek’s sculptures are in the collections of, for example, the Centre for the Arts in Yerevan, Armenia, the Galerie Prager Kabinett in Salzburg, Austria, and the Jean-Claude Chapelotte Gallery in Luxembourg. He has also had many group and private exhibitions around the world, for example at the Monaco Yacht Show, the Dubai International Boat Show - Marine Art gallery, the Abu Dhabi Yacht Show, the Sea Fair Yacht Exhibition or Superyacht Design Week in London. At the end of June 2017 did Mr. Beránek in cooperation with ArtSiO gallery and Crystal Caviar first ever underwater exhibition of his sculptures.[3]

References
  1. "Crystal Caviar: a new frontier of crystal art - The Art Collector". The Art Collector. 2017-03-20. Retrieved 2017-03-24.
  2. Beránek, Vlastmil. "Vlastimil Beranek mobile: Overview". www.vlastimilberanek.com. Retrieved 2017-02-13.
  3. ""Protect the fragility", the under water exhibition of Bohemian crystal sculptures - superyachtdigest". www.superyachtdigest.com. Retrieved 2017-09-26.
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