Jitka Malovaná

Biography

Jitka Malovaná, born Jitka Mašková on 12 August 1955 in Český Krumlov, is a Czech sculptor, ceramicist, restorer, and teacher. She trained at the vocational school of ceramics in Bechyně from 1970 to 1974, then studied sculpture at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague under Josef Malejovský until 1980. She also worked as a stone cutter. She was married to sculptor Pavel Malovaný (1958–2011).

From 1997 to 2002, she helped restore the Reliquary of St. Maurus by modeling new figures of saints. She restored stone sculptures at the National Museum’s Lapidarium in Prague (1999–2015) and at Vrchotovy Janovice castle from 2002. Since 2005, she has taught modeling and sculpture at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague’s Department of Alternative and Puppet Theatre, and also gives drawing and painting lessons at the Academy of the Third Age at the University of Economics in Prague. Her work focuses on figural statues, especially portrait heads, and drawing.

Work

She likes creation of figural statues, especially portrait heads, and drawing. Some artworks: Bust of the Czech politician Oldřicha Černíka on his tomb in Slavín cemetery, brass, 1995, Prague-Vyšehrad. Bust of the girl Ulrike von Levetzow, the last love of Johann Wolfgang Goethe; plaster, 2002; Regional Museum in Most, Lapidarium, Prague of the National Museum. Bust of the Czech jazz singer Karel Hála, brass, 2016 (on his residence house in Prague). Restoration: Early gothic half-statue of saint Agnes of Bohemia from the St. Agnes Monastery in Prague (2006).