Bearers of the tradition of folks crafts 2011
2011 Bearers of the Tradition of Folk Crafts
Antonín Hájek (*1938) was born in Uherské Hradiště where he has lived most of the time, received his professional training there and subsequently took a job as a maintenance man in the Let Kunovice aircraft manufacturing enterprise. The rich cultural climate of the town, his friendship with Vladimír Bouček as well as with teachers of the Secondary Applied Arts School where he was employed, inspired his interest in folk art and culture. He was particularly attracted by the technologies and production processes used in wood working and decoration. He gradually mastered engraved ornaments and other engraving techniques, notch cutting, inlay, tin filling, and incrustation with brass tape and wire. He uses most of these decorating techniques on hollow objects, such as bowls, dishes, plates, as well as helves, whip handles and other items.
Wood turning has become his favourite craft to which he has been giving great attention for a long time. At first he used a lathe driven by motor, but when he acquired a wooden pedal lathe, he wasted no time and learned the full range of the skills needed to operate this traditional tool. Besides small parts of wooden toys he also uses it to turn open hollow pieces, as well as helices and coils. The highlight of his woodturning art is hollow, closed wooden canteens and field flasks.
Zuzana Hartlová (*1956) comes from a potter’s family where pottery and majolica making has been practised for several generations. Perhaps the best known person of the family was her great-grandfather Jaroslav Úředníček, who founded the tradition of folk faience known as Tupesy ceramics. The faience pottery making was carried on by Jaroslav Úředníček’s children and grand-children, who set up several small workshops which were later nationalised and operated as the Brno Moravian Centre, while the former owners were its employees. Zuzana Hartlová thus grew up surrounded by ceramic workshops and the colourful work of the women - folk painters, which inspired her fantasy and talent inherited from her forefathers. As a child she attended the Art School in Uherské Hradiště, where she specialised in painting and decoration. As an apprentice, she was trained as an art potter in the Folk Art Producer Cooperative in Tupesy. She acquired theoretical knowledge at the Arts and Crafts School in Prague, specialising in art pottery making. In 1974-1978 she studied at the Secondary Industrial Arts School in Uherské Hradiště, art ceramics with professor Jiří Vlach, Stanislav Mikuláštík and master Vladimír Groš.
After taking a job at the Tupesy workshop, Zuzana Hartlová was engaged mainly in the painting and decoration of ceramic ware, and became involved in the preparation of new designs for the folk faience products and their decoration, where she applied motifs from 18th and 19th century jug manufacture. The changed conditions in the workshop and its failed privatisation made her to set up her own workshop in 1998, where she fully adopted the tradition of Tupesy faience ceramic making. Her most frequently used patterns include the Tupesy rose with perianth, the strawflower pattern using yellow or red bloom, but primarily she specialises in producing replicas of motifs of Haban-type pottery.
Richard Mlýnek (*1951) was trained as a roofer at the start of his professional career and then took a job with the District Construction Enterprise in Opava. There he studied at the Vocational School, became a foreman, and subsequently head of the tinsmith-roofer centre. Besides that, he was also a teacher and master of professional training at the Vocational Training Facility in Opava, The year 1990 brought a change in his life, he set up his own roofing firm and started his own business. He focused on repairs and reconstruction of protected monuments, which included e.g. the Church of St Barbara in Kutná Hora, Bouzov Castle, Velké Losiny Chateau, and others. Thanks to his profound knowledge of the technology in the branch, its history and new trends, he became a member of the editorial board of the Střechy (Roofs) magazine, has been a member of the Standardisation Commission No.65 - Roofs, and since 2001 Deputy Chairman of the Czech-Moravian Association for Slate. Mr Mlýnek is also a court-appointed expert and a respected authority in his branch.
In his work, he places great emphasis on the professional knowledge and use of technology while respecting the specific regional applications which distinguish the different regions where slate is used for roofing. He has mastered several methods of roofing on straight parts as well as in problematic sections, such as the ridge, the gable or gutter edge, or valley, as well as a large decorative gable. He has presented his experience in several specialised books and workshops for apprentices that he has organised himself.
Zuzana Tilajcsiková (*1964) was trained in basketry and wickerwork at a major centre of this craft in Mělník. After completing her training, she worked for many years in a local workshop, up to its close-down. Then she was employed for some time in the manufacture of wicker furniture in a newly founded private firm. In 1997, she started her own basket making business where she has been engaged until now.
In her workshop, she makes the traditional range of basketry products, using mostly willow stakes. Besides dried unpeeled green stakes she also makes use of peeled boiled or sapped stakes and further works them by chipping and planing. Her basketwork carries on the tradition of the Mělník area, the range includes baskets for fruit picking, shopping and washing, bread baskets, baskets for farming and those carried on the back, as well as home accessories and decorations, and other wickerwork according to customers‘ requests. She presents her products at various shows of traditional crafts and municipal festivals, where they can be purchased and the basket making technology and manufacture can be demonstrated. A sizeable proportion of her output is designed for window-dressing, and interior and film architects. Besides these activities, she also repairs and restores wickerwork products.
Bearers of the Tradition of Folk Crafts in 2010
- Alfred Stawaritsch (*1942)
- Augustin Krystyník (*1952)
- Milan Strmiska (*1952)
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Bearers of the Tradition of Folk Crafts in 2009
- Božena Habartová (*1964)
- Karel Hanák (*1960)
- Ladislav Chládek (*1944)
- Vít Kašpařík (*1970)
- František Mikyška (*1949)
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Bearers of the Tradition of Folk Crafts in 2008
- František Pavlica (*1971)
- Pavel Číp (*1944)
- Marie Skrežinová (*1944)
- Eva Minksová (*1940)
- Ludmila Dominová (*1948)
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Bearers of the Tradition of Folk Crafts in 2007
- Rozálie Blažková (*1941) Nesvady, weaving from maize husks
- Hana Buchtelová (*1961) Malá Vrbka, Linen weaving
- Iveta Dandová (*1963) Mnichovo Hradiště, processing of reed mace
- Blanka Mikolajková (*1960), Rožnov pod Radhoštěm, framework knitting
- František Tureček (*1928), Tvrdonice, The shoemaking
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Bearers of the Tradition of Folk Crafts in 2006
- Josef Hruška ( *1941), Valašské Meziříčí - blacksmith technologies
- Jaroslav Sucháček st. (*1936), Lhota u Vsetína, manufacture of sharpening stones
- Ludmila Kočišová (*1931), Vnorovy - processing of maize husks
- Dana Ptáčková (*1950), Morkovice - basket makers
- Miloslava Zatloukalová (*1959), Brodek u Konice - straw plaiting
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Bearers of the Tradition of Folk Crafts in 2005
- Josef Janulík, Josefov, for the manufacture of folk footwear
- Drahomír Smejkal, Jihlava, for manual manufacture of files and rasps
- Jiří Ondřej, Zubří, for the manufacture of birch brooms.
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Bearers of the Tradition of Folk Crafts in 2004
- František Joch from Strážnice - blue print on fabrics
- Štefan Kanaloš from Ostrava – wood chiselling
- Jiří Myška from Hlinsko – hatchet work
- Jarmila Oharková from Tišnov – hand weaving
Bearers of the Tradition of Folk Crafts in 2003
- Josef Kopčan from Valašská Bystřice - woodworkin by adze and axe
- Zdeněk Kubák - traditional weaving of fabrics
- Oldřich Kvapil from Hořice - carver of gingerbread cutters
- Milan Macho from Suchdol nad Lužnicí - basket-splint weaving
- Petr Stoklasa from Velké Karlovice - wooden doves manufacture
Bearers of the Tradition of Folk Crafts in 2002
- Zdeněk Bukáček, Krouna - wood-turned toys
- Jiří Danzinger, Olešnice na Moravě - traditional blue and white printing
- Jana Juřicová, Vigantice - white embroidery
- Ivo Nimrichter, Kyjov - black pottery
- Miloslav Trefanec, Klatovy - Čínov - traditional blacksmith´s craft
Bearers of the Tradition of Folk Crafts in 2001
- Antonín Moštěk, Vlčnov - the ceramic workshop, the historical Faience
- Stanislav Štěpánek, Morkovice - basket making
- Ladislav Rejent, Proseč u Skutče - wood carving and turning
- Rudolf Volf, Koloveč - the pottery manufacture
- Jiří Drhovský, Zvěřkovice - wood-carved toys