Richard Vyškovský, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Richard Vyškovský

Czech architect

Date of Birth: 13-Jul-1929

Place of Birth: Vienna, Austria

Date of Death: 01-Aug-2019

Profession: architect

Nationality: Czech Republic

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About Richard Vyškovský

  • Richard Vyškovský (13 July 1929 – 1 August 2019) was a Czech architect and creator of paper models. In 1960s Vyškovský worked for the State institute for reconstruction of historic towns and monuments (SÚRPMO) in Prague.
  • After a discussion with colleagues, complaining about the limited availability of die-cast Matchbox scale cars sold in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic only in Tuzex shops, he decided to create similar models from paper.
  • His first model was designed after a die-cast Packard Landaulet model manufactured by Lesney Products under code Y-11 in the series Models of Yesteryear.
  • In October 1968 the newspaper Lidová demokracie published a short article about "ing.
  • Blecha and his colleague" accompanied by photos of paper models Mercedes 38/220 and Packard Landaulet.The state-owned publishing house SNDK and Vladislav Toman, editor in chief of ABC magazine, showed interest in publishing paper models by Blecha/Vyškovský.
  • Already in 1968 SNDK published their paper diorama "Hussite siege of Karlštejn".
  • ABC Magazine published a simplified paper model of a Packard Landaulet in March 1969.
  • In the following seven years Blecha and Vyškovský published in ABC and SNDK/Albatros a series of further paper models, including a vast model of Prague Castle.
  • From 1976 Vyškovský designed the models for ABC and Albatros on his own.
  • The first published self model was Formula 1 Ferrari 312-T2 of Niki Lauda for ABC.
  • Since 1997 his models have also been published by the company ERKOtyp, which is co-owned by his son Richard.

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