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Bohumil Eliáš

The late Czech artist Bohumil Elias is credited to revitalizing stained glass as an expressive artistic means in studio glassmaking. His continuous exploration of painting alongside his work with glass eventually resulted in the creation of a wholly individual expression, full of intensity, fantasy, and abstraction.
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Born in 1937, Bohumil Eliáš is credited for the rehabilitation of stained glass as an expressive artistic means in studio glassmaking. After he completed his secondary studies in 1957 at Železný Brod, Eliáš's specialization in painted glass led him to the studio of monumental painting and glass at the College of Applied Arts in Prague.

The beginnings of Eliáš's work with glass are associated with the revolutionary use of horizontal layering of flat glass cut into relief, layered forms. In the 1980s, he began to create forms from flat glass panes arranged vertically, and on individual layers, he used free painting with a background of arrangement of motifs, thus achieving the appearance of illusionary, three-dimensional composition. Since the 1990s, Eliáš used monumental sheets of glass, shaped in a kiln, as starting points for his painting on glass, as if they were a canvas. His work is one of the exceptional examples of the creative mutual coexistence of glass and other areas of artistic creation.

Eliáš's works have been exhibited in many museums and galleries throughout Asia, Europe, and North America. His works can be found in the collections of Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, France; The Amsterdam Museum of Modern Art; National Gallery in Prague; and Takasaki Museum of Art in Takasaki, Japan, among many others.



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Howard Ben Tré - Peter Bremers - Lucio Bubacco - José Chardiet - Dale Chihuly - Václav Cigler - Daniel Clayman - Bohumil Eliáš - Bohumil Eliáš Jr - Jan Exnar - Richard Jolley - Joey Kirkpatrick & Flora Mace - Vladimír Kopecký - Stanislav Libensky and Jaroslava Brychtova - Václav Machač - Jaroslav Matous - Lukas Mjartan - William Morris - Štěpán Pala - Zora Palová - Philip Baldwin and Monica Guggisberg - Jaromír Rybák - Gizela Šabóková - Davide Salvadore - Lino Tagliapietra - Bertil Vallien - Marián Volráb - Julius Weiland - Jiřina Žertovà - Alex Arbell - Boris Shpeizman - Lior Vagima