Zora Palová

Zora Palová (22 December 1947[1] – 11 January 2025) was a Slovak glass artist.[2][3]

Biography

Palová was born in Bratislava, Slovakia on 22 December 1947, and attended the applied arts school there. She later became a teacher at the public art school in Nitra, and worked as a designer, before returning to her hometown and resuming studies in art. She initially studied painting and sculpture, but changed her major to study architecture and glass.[2][3]

From 1996 to 2003 she was head of the glass department at the University of Sunderland in England.[2] In 2008, she received the Rakow Commission from Corning Museum of Glass, New York.[4]

Palová died on 11 January 2025, at the age of 77.[5]

References

  1. ^ Veľká strata pre SNG. Vo veku 77 rokov zomrela priekopníčka sklárskej scény na Slovensku Zora Palová (in Slovak)
  2. ^ a b c "Zora Palova". Ferne Nähe (in German). 13 September 2016. Retrieved 23 October 2020.
  3. ^ a b "Zora Palova | Artists | CASS Sculpture Foundation". www.sculpture.org.uk. Retrieved 23 October 2020.
  4. ^ "Zora Palová (2008) | Corning Museum of Glass". www.cmog.org. Retrieved 23 October 2020.
  5. ^ "Umelkyňa, sochárka a pedagogička Zora Palová zomrela vo veku 77 rokov". Denník. 13 January 2025. Retrieved 14 January 2025.
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