Lot 128

Vítězslav Jungbauer (1919 - 2003) A LAMP

Sculptor Vítězslav Jungbauer originally apprenticed as a wood carver under his father in Nebahovy, a village near Prachatice. At the School of Applied Arts in Prague he studied under Professor Karel Dvořák and Josef Wagner, graduating in 1948 before settling in Prague. His work is focused on the expressive reassessment of realistic forms in a modern sense for contracted form, working with both traditional materials (wood, stone, bronze) and malleable plastics. He executed a Plexiglas relief featuring the seal of Charles University for the university's medical faculty and a 80 m² relief map of Prague for the Czechoslovakia 60 exhibition in Moscow and Kiev. Plastic enabled him to create objects that interact with light (i.e., are transparent).