Milada Othová

Milada Othová is considered to be one of the foremost female Czech medallists influencing the design of present-day medals. She also creates small sculptures and artwork for architecture. In 1974, she designed a ceramic relief-work for Hotel Dalibor showing a Panoramic Veduta of the Historic Centre of Litomyšl (C2-1053).

From 1958 to 1962 she attended the College of Art in Hollarovo Square, Prague, and in 1967 graduated from the Academy of Arts Architecture and Design in Prague at Professor Jan Kavan's studio of sculpture. From 1995 she has taught figural sculpture and medals at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. She takes part in symposiums of medal casting, plaque making and small sculptures, most often in Uherské Hradiště, where she was a member of the organizational team from 1994 to 2002. She is a member of the Association of Czech Medallists, the art groups Trojkolka (Milada Othová, Michal Vitanovský, Jiří Vlach) and Umělecká Beseda.

Above all, she concentrates on medal-making, not only working to order but also working creatively for herself. She thus breaks the barrier between creatively free art and applied art which she has reserved for medals fulfilling a predominantly social function. Themes for her work include portraits of women, general issues concerning human beings, but also the abstract expression of real-life observations. In her work we can see several plans of action and meaning and implied details stepping out of the background, thus creating the impression of something mysterious and unuttered. Othová uses predominantly shallow relief-work and soft modelling, interrupted in places with engraved lines. She usually creates her artwork using the traditional technique of lost-wax casting, thus enabling her to capture the finest details.

1975
Memorial plaque for Karel Kořistek
Moravské Square 71, Březová nad Svitavou

1975
Memorial plaque for František Xaver Živanský
Lidická 69/01, Brno

1978
Stele commemorating František Matouš Klácel
Mendlovo Square 1/07, Brno

1980–1981
Motherhood
Moravian Gallery in Brno

1984
100 Continuous Years of Theatre in Brno
Prague City Gallery