Exhibition on the occasion of the 70th birthday of the goldsmith and jeweller Jiří Urban
None of our contemporary jewellers can boast such an extensive creative range as Jiří Urban (*1954). In the second half of the 1980s, he headed the DUV Granát Turnov development workshop, continued his jewellery design as co-owner of the RSG company (until 2010) and at the same time created his own original jewellery and jewellery objects and also drew and painted. However, it was his copies of the Crown Jewels that generated the most media coverage. However, the greatest media coverage was generated by his copies of the Crown Jewels, which he has been working on since 2008. These include the imperial crown of the Holy Roman Empire, the Lombard crown, the crown of Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte and two crowns closely linked to the person of Charles IV - the St. Crown of the Kings of the Holy Roman Empire, which he had made for his coronation as King of Bohemia (1346), and the Crown of the Kings of the Holy Roman Empire, which he had crowned himself King of Rome (1349) and subsequently donated to the Cathedral in Aachen. Among other very important realizations of Jiří Urban we also count a copy of the Gothic Sedlec monstrance, a 1 m high architectural jewel made of gilded silver. Monstrance, five crowns - copy of the Lombard crown, copy of the crown of the Holy Roman Emperor, copy of the St. Wenceslas crown, copy of the funeral crown of King Přemysl Otakar II, copies of the crown of the Roman King Charles IV - as well as gold jewellery and small objects with precious gems will undoubtedly be the main magnet of the extensive exhibition that the Museum of Bohemian Paradise in Turnov is organising on the occasion of Urban's 70th birthday;


Jiří Urban Exhibition on the occasion of the 70th birthday of the phenomenal goldsmith, jeweller, artist