Josef Vinecký

Josef Vinecký (20 February 1882 – 1 June 1949) was a Czech avant-garde sculptor, ceramist, designer and university teacher.

Josef Vinecký was born on 20 February 1882 in Zámostí, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary (today part of Rožďalovice, Czech Republic).

After the First World War in 1918, Vinecký settled in Wiesbaden and became friends with the avant-garde artists of the group Die blaue Vier: Lyonel Feininger, Alexey von Jawlensky, Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee.

Vinecký moved to Wrocław when his wife, the residential architect Li Thon-Vinecká, got a job at the city's Academy of Fine Arts and Crafts.

He then oriented his own work towards industrial design, especially furniture, in which he first used bent metal tubes and wood veneer, later experimenting with synthetic materials (plexiglass, polyester, trolon).

Foyer of the Imperial Baths in Wiesbaden, majolica and stone tiles, 1911-1912
Main altar of the Church of Our Lady, Berlin-Karlshorst, 1925