International Pilchuck Glass School in the USA, where Ivan Kubela taught together with glassmaker Petr Novotný in the late 1990s

Ivan Kubela worked in the Ajeto glassworks. Pictured are the owners of the company, glassmakers Petr Novotný and Libor Fafala, 1990s

Singer Leona Machálková (left) with Bořek Šípek (right) at the Ajeto glassworks, 2005

Glass designer Bořek Šípek with the Thalia Theatre Award, which he designed in the 1990s

Glass designers René Roubíček (left) and Bořek Šípek in the Anežka glassworks, 2008

The Pražský výběr band led by musician Michael Kocáb at the Ajeto glassworks, 2005

Actor Jan Tříska (right) visiting the Ajeto glassworks, 2005

With designer Bořek Šípek in a glass factory in Japan, 1999

Ivan Kubela as Svazarm Crystalex shooter, 1981

Nicholaus Markert, Karlsbad, 2023

Jaroměř, company partly in theatre costumes (some kind of celebration), Josef Pelant sitting third from the right (with a long pipe and a false moustache), behind him is his future wife Emilie Pozdílková, 1936

On the right side, Ivan Pelant's birth house in Uherský Brod - today's 253 Hradiště street (the house was demolished in the 1970s, 1930s)

Mother Emílie Pelantová (still unmarried as Pozdílková, in Prague, 1929)

Uherský Brod, aerial photo, 1934

Dad Josef on a horse, on the other side of the photograph a dedication - In Jaroměř at a fair for Miss Emka, September 28, 1928

Students of the state secondary school in Turnov, probably graduation year, father J. Pelant on the top, fifth from the right, 1925

On the Legion Bridge in Prague, Josef Pelant on the left, probably 1930s

Dad, Capt. Josef Pelant in the barracks in Josefov, 1937

Dad, Capt. Josef Pelant in the barracks in Josefov, 1937

Ivan Pelant's birth house on the right in Uherský Brod, 1917

On a motorcycle on the way from Czechoslovakia to Norway in the summer of 1964

Kurt's sister Helga on a motorcycle on her way from Czechoslovakia to Norway in the summer of 1964

Together with his children Joakim, Martin and Malin

Kurt's first car was purchased in Sweden, 1968

Kurt in the yard of the state farm in Hošťálkovice