Zbigniew Horbowy

Zbigniew Horbowy (28 October 1935 in Łanczyn – 17 June 2019 in Polanica-Zdrój[1]) was a Polish artist working in industrial design, both artistic and applied glassmaking, professor at the Faculty of Ceramics and Glass and rector of the Wrocław Academy of Fine Arts. He was an influential Polish designer of utility glass and created his own design school.[2]

Zbigniew Horbowy
Born28 October 1935
Łanczyn, Poland
Died17 June 2019
Polanica-Zdrój
NationalityPolish
EducationWrocław Academy of Fine Arts
Occupation(s)artist, design school creator

Early life and education

Horbowy was born in Poland, in the village of Łanczyn in the county of Nadwórna (now Nadvirna Raion), in the former Stanisławów Voivodeship in what is now Ukraine.[3] His family soon moved to the city of Kolomyia. After World War II he and his family were forcibly resettled from Kolomyia to Kargowa near Zielona Góra in western Poland, where he attended elementary school. He went to high school in nearby Wolsztyn.[4]

Although Horbowy had intended to attend the Silesian University of Technology, as he had always been interested in mechanics, he was persuaded to apply to the State College of Fine Arts in Wrocław, where he was admitted in 1953.[3] There he studied under Professor Stanisław Dawski, at the time the rector of the college, and director of the Faculty of Ceramics and Glass. Horbowy graduated in 1959, with his fine arts project being a full set of table glasses. He was the first student in Poland to graduate in Glass Design.[2]

Career

In 1959 Horbowy went to work as a designer for Huta Szkła Gospodarcza (HSG) at their "Sudety" Glassworks in Szczytna Śląska near Kłodzko. Huta Szkła Gospodarcza was an industrial concern which produced products such as kerosene lamps, and their glass department originally produced globes (cylinders) for kerosene lamps and window glass, but had expanded into other consumer glass products. It was here that Horbowy began experimenting with glass shapes and colors. Although his early works lacked the crisp colors of his later works, the shapes that he turned out were "delightful".[5]

In 1974, on his initiative, HSG opened the "Barbara" Glassworks in Polanica Zdrój, with Horbowy as artistic director.[2] Beginning in 1978, he worked as a designer at the Zjednoczone Zespoly Gospodarcze INCO glassworks in Wrocław. In all he worked with commercial glassworks for thirty years.[2]

During this time, 1974–1990, Horbowy wrought a revolution in thinking about glass, leading to the creation of interesting and beautiful glass forms, but produced on a massive scale as utensils.[2][5]

In 1963 he joined the Faculty of Ceramics and Glass at the State College of Fine Arts in (now Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Arts), where he taught until 2006. In 1989 he received a full professorship there and became head of the glass department. Later he became vice dean, dean, vice rector and then rector of the Academy of Fine Arts. It was in the years 1999 to 2005 that he was the rector there. Among his students were Małgorzata Dajewska[6] and Ryszard Bilan.[7]

Awards and honours

Further reading
  • Banaś, Barbara (2009). Zbigniew Horbowy. Wrocławskie Środowisko Artystyczne [Wrocław Artistic Environment] (in Polish). Wrocław: Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Arts. ISBN 978-83-60520-27-7.
  • Banaś, Paweł (1986). Zbigniew Horbowy - wystawa szkła artystycznego [Zbigniew Horbowy - exhibition of artistic glass] (in Polish). Wrocław: INCO (Zjednoczone Zespoly Gospodarcze). OCLC 835853681.
  • Jakubowicz, Joanna (2011). Mistrz i uczeń: Zbigniew Horbowy - Ryszard Bilan: sen o Kłodzku [Master and student: Zbigniew Horbowy - Ryszard Bilan: A dream about Kłodzko]. Kłodzko: Muzeum Ziemi Kłodzkiej w Kłodzku. ISBN 978-83-929014-4-0.
  • Łagiewski, Maciej; Szmida-Półbratek, Magdalena (2019). Pluta, Ewa (ed.). Zbigniew Horbowy, 1935-2019 (in Polish). Wrocław: Muzeum Miejskie Wrocławia. ISBN 978-83-65464-31-6. exhibition catalog

Notes and references
  1. "Nie żyje Zbigniew Horbowy, znany artysta były rektor wrocławskiej Akademii Sztuk Pięknych" [Zbigniew Horbowy, a well-known artist and former rector of the Wrocław Academy of Fine Arts, is dead]. Gazeta Wrocławska (in Polish). 17 June 2019. Archived from the original on 17 June 2019.
  2. "Dziś prawdziwych kieliszków już nie ma – Zbigniew Horbowy" [Today, real glasses are gone - Zbigniew Horbowy]. Kapitał Dolnego Śląska (in Polish). 16 August 2019. Archived from the original on 9 April 2020.
  3. Banaś, Barbara (2009). "Zbigniew Horbowy". Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Arts. Archived from the original on 9 April 2020.
  4. Haczek, Zdzisław (18 June 2019). "Zmarł prof. Zbigniew Horbowy. Wybitny projektant szkła artystycznego dorastał w Kargowej. Miał galerię w Muzeum Ziemi Lubuskiej" [Prof. Zbigniew Horbowy. The outstanding designer of artistic glass grew up in Kargowa. He had a exhibition at the Museum of the Lubusz Land]. Gazeta Lubuska. Archived from the original on 18 June 2019.
  5. Cichecka-Papińska, Małgorzata (15 November 2019). "Dziś prawdziwych kieliszków już nie ma" [Today all the real glass is gone]. Educational Society of Dzierżoniów Region. Archived from the original on 9 April 2020.
  6. "Dajewska, Małgorzata". Rathay Biographien. Peter U. Rathay. Archived from the original on 9 April 2020.
  7. Jakubowicz 2011
  8. "Gloria Artis dla prof. Zbigniewa Horbowego" (in Polish). Retrieved 18 November 2022.
  9. "XXIV Wrocławska Księga Pamięci z wizytą na ASP" (in Polish). Retrieved 18 November 2022.
  10. "Odznaka Honorowa Wrocławia - Wrocław z wdzięcznością "Wratislavia Grato Animo"" (in Polish). Retrieved 18 November 2022.
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