Jaroslav Horejc

Life and work

He was born in Prague in 1886, the second of three children of the watchmaker Alois Horejc; the Biographical Dictionary of the Czech Lands gives 15 June in its header and 15 July in its main text. From 1900 to 1905 he studied at the specialist school for jewellers, goldsmiths, silversmiths, engravers and chasers in Prague and from 1906 to 1910 at the School of Applied Arts under Josef Drahoňovský, Emanuel Novák and Stanislav Sucharda, supporting himself as a stucco worker. From 1909 he designed objects for Artěl, in 1911 he joined the Mánes Union and he was a member of the Czech Werkbund. He worked closely with the architects Jan Kotěra and Ladislav Machoň. In 1909 he organised an Antoine Bourdelle exhibition in Prague. At the 1925 Paris exhibition he won the grand prize for glass vases, and in 1937 he received the Order of Orange-Nassau for the sculptural decoration of the Comenius mausoleum in Naarden. From 1919 to 1948, with an interruption during the war, he was professor at the School of Applied Arts. He died on 3 January 1983 in Prague.

Coins and medals

His sculptural works include the bronzes Girl with a Vase and Olympia (1938), Diana Hunting (1946) and the marble Music (1948) in the collection of the Prague City Gallery. Medals form a smaller component of his work, closely linked with applied art and his training in metalwork.

From the work in the AUREA range

The AUREA range includes his undated bronze medal Races of the Czechoslovak Sokol Community, 40 mm, catalogued to 1948.