Olbram Zoubek

{{Short description|Czech sculptor and designer}}

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|image = Olbram-Zoubek.jpg

|caption = Zoubek in 2012

|birth_date = {{birth date|1926|4|21|df=y}}

|birth_place = Prague, Czech Republic

|death_date = {{death date and age|2017|6|15|1926|4|21|df=y}}

|death_place = Prague, Czech Republic

|occupation = Sculptor

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Olbram Zoubek (21 April 1926 – 15 June 2017) was a contemporary Czech sculptor and designer. His work was inspired by Swiss-Italian sculptor Alberto Giacometti.

There is an extensive permanent exhibition of his sculptures and art in Litomyšl Castle Vault Gallery.[http://www.smetanaoperafestival.com/rentals_cu.php Smetana's Litomysl Opera Festival, Litomysl Castle, Litomysl Travel Services, Litomysl Czech Republic]

Zoubek was particularly well known for having taken a death mask of Jan Palach, a Charles University student who burned himself to death in protest over the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia.{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/museums/czech-sculptor-olbram-zoubek-dies-at-age-91/2017/06/15/56b8cf82-5209-11e7-b74e-0d2785d3083d_story.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170615225002/https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/museums/czech-sculptor-olbram-zoubek-dies-at-age-91/2017/06/15/56b8cf82-5209-11e7-b74e-0d2785d3083d_story.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2017-06-15 |title=Czech sculptor Olbram Zoubek dies at age 91 |newspaper=The Washington Post |date= |accessdate=2017-06-16}} One of his most famous works is his "Memorial to the Victims of Communism" in Prague (done in collaboration with the architects Jan Kerel and Zdeněk Holzel).{{cite web |url=https://www.mimoa.eu/projects/Czech%20Republic/Prague/Memorial%20for%20the%20Victims%20of%20Communism/ |title=Memorial for the Victims of Communism, AHK architekti, Olbram Zoubek |publisher=Mimoa.eu |date= |accessdate=2017-06-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150522215723/http://www.mimoa.eu/projects/Czech%20Republic/Prague/Memorial%20for%20the%20Victims%20of%20Communism |archive-date=2015-05-22 |url-status=dead }}