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    Mirek Smíšek

    New Zealand potter (1925–2013)

    Miroslav Smíšek

    OBE

    Smíšek examining a pot, January 1973

    Born(1925-02-02)February 2, 1925

    Bohemia, Czechoslovakia

    Died19 May 2013(2013-05-19) (aged 88)

    Wellington, New Zealand

    Known forPottery
    PartnerPamella Annsouth
    AwardsGratis Agit Award (2011)

    Miroslav SmíšekOBE (2 February 1925 – 19 May 2013) was a Czechoslovakian-born New Zealand potter.

    After fleeing the Czech coup and eventually arriving in New Zealand he started work for Crown Lynn and later established his own pottery. His two pottery kilns in Te Horo are scheduled as a category 2 historic place by Heritage New Zealand

    Biography

    Smíšek was born in the Bohemia region of Czechoslovakia in 1925.[1] After spending most of World War II in labour camps due to his efforts in the anti-Nazi resistance movement, he fled Europe in 1948 after the Czech coup.[2] He emigrated first to Australia, and then to New