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Ludvíka Smrcková

 
Ludvíka Smrcková

industrial designer
(1903 - 1990, Prague, Czech Republic)

Note: Glass designer initially studied mathematics and philosophy at Charles University, then with the decorator Franti?ek Kysela at the Prague School of Decorative Arts, 1921-1927. Assistant professor from 1928-1948, she spent her spare time designing glass tableware. While still a student she was showing her work at the Exposition des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, 1925. Most of her designs were manufactured by Rückel in Ni?bor.

1 objects

Image Plate 3 from White Modernism (Ludvika Smrcková, Czechoslovakia, 1967)

2008
Silkscreen and aquatint etching on Somerset Satin and Surface Gampi
Museum Purchase, Barbara Cooney Porter Fund
2011.25.3