Painter and glass artist, Stanislav Libensky (1921-2002) and sculptor Jaroslava Brychtova (born 1924) married in 1963, having already collaborated in making art glass from 1954. As pioneers of sculptural glass work in Czechoslovakia, they worked together for over 40 years, gaining a hugely influential international reputation. They developed the mould-melting technique, firing pieces of glass cullet in a mould taken from an original clay model. They taught this technique to successive generations of students, such that it has now become typical of Czech art glass. This dramatic piece, Cross Head, is made using their mould-melting technique using red glass to create a beautiful piece of glass sculpture.
