The Glass Nový Bor school was founded in 1870, as the local glass businessmen appreciated its necessity not only due their own interests but also due to the further industrial development of the whole region. After their processing in the new glassworks Nový Bor got rid of the dependence on the production of semi-products in the regions of Českomoravská highlands, Jizera Mountains, Sázava Valley and South Bohemia. The possibility of the railway transportation of the finished products both for inland and foreign customers was probably even more important for Nový Bor.The art-and-skill and design activities in the second half of the 19th century was influenced by the historizing tendencies – return to the Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque styles. The Nový Bor school was influenced by them as well as by the contemporary interest in the oriental art and possibilities of its use first of all in the glass painted with the colour enamels and gold. It the proper time the school oriented its interests also on the Art Nouveau, adopted its design conceptions and made possible also the manufacturers, especially the glass and china painters, to meet the new art.The High Professional School of Glass Nový Bor was founded in order to develop and to finalize the education of the secondary art schools’ graduates in the field of the art and skill, to make them possible to study other glass techniques and producing operations they couldn’t meet during their previous studies. It has been oriented onto the manufacture of the high skilled demanding and technical sophisticated art glass and onto the development of artistic conditions of students in order to prepare them for posts of designers and top craftsmen both in private glass workshops and in art glass studios and/or for individual glass designing activities.
