Gloria in Excelsis Deo
1960.
Rare nativity scene from the master of paper engineering Kubasta. With two free standing pieces - one of sheep and the other of a villager carrying the Vanocka bread. In very good condition.
Váno ka is a plaited bread, representing the swaddled baby Jesus, and traditionally baked at Christmas time. This is a typical Czech nativity scene, which includes the usual nativity figures, plus village characters, the inscription "Gloria in Excelsis Deo" and a blazing star of Bethlehem flying over the night sky.
Brought up in Prague, Vojt ch Kubata began his career as an artist and book illustrator in the early 1940s after studying architecture at the Polytech University in Prague. His distinctive bold and colourful figures, as seen in this work, became increasingly popular. Beginning in the 1950s, he developed an elaborate paper construction tableau for each Christmas season.
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