The History and today
School profile
The High School of Applied Arts for Glassmaking in Zelezny Brod was founded in 1920 as a connection with the new republic efforts to support and development of traditional industry. It is the first Bohemian Glass School whose aim is educated glass professionals. Nowadays the studies take four years and are concluded by the school - leaving exam.
Students obtain their education in two fields: Glass arts treatment and Glass technology
The High School of Applied Arts for Glassmaking in Zelezny Brod takes a hare in cardinal manner of unique international education system of glass schools in the Czech Republic. Although it is specially oriented institution, which prepares completely artists, workshop masters and technologies into practise, the graduates assert as a teachers, managers, businessmen as well. Students, who learned during four years how to understand glass, think about glass characteristics, work and represent it and have considerably success in attending not only Art universities. Thorough teaching glass technology take basically specializes chemical fields in demand.
The High School in Zelezny Brod has made its generally respected reputation especially on teachers' personalities from the very beginning until these days. To the school history belong the most distinctive generation of artists, who become members of school recently. Enthusiasm, dynamics and new ideas of young artists, who lead each studio, follow dignifiedly their more famous colleagues and predecessors and fundamentally form the knowledge of contemporary appearance and lead up the school. Every year the school familiarize with students´ works at school competitions including the school presentation in New York last year are without parallel. School is developed also in other point of view: the school building from half of the 20th centuries was waited to see exacting changes until the end of 20th century. There was new studios built and modern annex, which is architectonically estimated, was grown with modern gymnasium, laboratories with the high quality equipment and a lecture hall.
Specific atmosphere and the pedagogical staffs´ best results express interest in study at the High School of Applied Arts for Glassmaking in Zelezny Brod from foreign countries and it gives the school European measurement.
Milan Hlaveš, Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague