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 by Jiří Urban we also count a copy of the Gothic Sedlec Monstrance, a 1 m high architectural jewel made of gilded silver. The exhibition will present Urban's paintings - landscapes and figural motifs and still lifes from the last three decades and dozens of jewels and objects from the mid-1980s to the present. However, he will share exhibition space with his daughter, academic painter Markéta Urban, and son-in-law Jan Jaroš, an artist and designer, who will contribute examples of their work.
Museum of Bohemian Paradise in Turnov (Exhibition Hall) / 14 March - 9 June 2024


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