The Czech city of Pilsen is known for two icons: Pilsner Beer and Ladislav Sutnar. The former is a superior pale lager that takes its name from the Bohemian city of Plzeň, where it was first produced in 1842. The latter is a design legend who was born in 1897 and died in 1976.
Sutnar was an innovative teacher and practitioner who left his homeland in 1939 for New York City, was stripped of his citizenship and was not welcomed back. In 2014, his ashes, after much lobbying and a change in government from communism to republic, were returned to Pilsen and laid to rest next to his wife.
The Ladislav Sutnar Faculty of Design and Art at the University of West Bohemia has become a wellspring of homegrown talent that regularly pays homage to its namesake. I recently found this short video hidden on my computer; it is a testament to Radislav Sutnar, who worked tirelessly to revive his father’s matchless accomplishments in the Czech Republic and throughout the world.
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