František Janák (born 1 June 1951) is a
Czech
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glass art
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ist. He creates glass sculptures and commission works, and also does series production design for different Czech glassworks.
Biography
Janák was born on 1 June 1951 in
Havlíčkův Brod
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,
Czechoslovakia
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, life_span = 1918–19391945–1992
, p1 = Austria-Hungary
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.
He completed his apprenticeship in glass cutting at the Bohemia Glassworks, Czech's biggest producer of hand cut lead crystal. He followed with studies at the Secondary School of Glassmaking in
Kamenický Šenov
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. From 1971 to 1972 he was head master at the Bohemia Glassworks school, followed by three years as a glass cutter at the Co-op Výtvarná řemesla in
Prague
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. From 1975 to 1981 Janák studied at the Academy of Applied Arts in Prague under Prof.
Stanislav Libenský Stanislav and variants may refer to:
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In 1981, Janák opened his own studio in Dolní Město. From 1985 to 1988 he was a glass designer at the Instit