Cigler, Václav, 1929-
Born in Vsetín in 1929, Cigler underwent the classic Czechoslovakian training. After attending the glass school in Nový Bor, he transferred to the School of Applied Art in Prague, where he studied under Josef Kaplický from 1951 to 1957.
Cigler credits Kaplický for creating a studio atmosphere in which the artist felt free to create. The fact that glass wasn’t officially considered an ideologically unsound artistic medium enabled Cigler to progress as an artist, unrestrained by the communist regime under which so many artists were stifled.
Cigler acquired a reputation in the 1960s for geometrical objects made from cut solid optical glass. The extraordinary craftsmanship required for Cigler’s work in optical glass, which can take months to achieve, employing platinum-coated tanks and diamond tools to perfect the hardness, clarity, and formations of the glass, adds to their sense of rarity as well as to their immaculate precision.
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