Vojtěch Kubašta

Some of the great Czech master painters, graphic artists, and illustrators were lecturing at the Polytech University in Prague.

When the communist government nationalised the entire publishing industry in 1948, Kubašta had to search for new venues to market his artistic talent.

He created three-dimensional cards that advertised porcelain, sewing machines, pencils, Pilsner beer, sunglasses, and other products.

[1] The exhibition of his work in the Gallery in the Grove is the first time that Vojtěch Kubašta's original artwork had been viewed by the Canadian public.

Kubašta's first sole retrospective exhibition in North America was organized by the Bienes Museum of the Modern Book[2] in Fort Lauderdale, Florida in February 2005.

During a recent exhibition of pop-ups and movable books in Chicago in September 2006, Columbia College devoted its entire gallery to Vojtěch Kubašta's art.