The Brno city council selected the authors of the gravestones for Tuschner and Rajlich

Brno - The authors of two tombstones, which will have a place at the honorary cemetery of the Central Cemetery, were selected by the Brno city councilors. These are the tombstones of painter, scenographer, and textile artist Inez Tuschnerova and graphic designer and initiator of the International Biennial of Graphic Design Jan Rajlich. The total cost of both tombstones will be 270,000 crowns, the city informed ČTK in a press release today.

"The city council selected Jiří Sobotka's offer as the most suitable for the design and realization of Inez Tuschnerova's tombstone, while the offer from his son and namesake Jan Rajlich was chosen for the design and realization of Jan Rajlich's tombstone," stated the spokesman for the magistrate, Filip Poňuchálek.

The academic painter Inez Tuschnerova passed away in 2015 and was primarily associated with textile art throughout her life. She had no relatives, and her personal and artistic estate passed into state ownership. The councilors decided in May 2017 to place her remains in the honorary cemetery of the Central Cemetery. In the same year, they first selected among offers for the creation of her tombstone, but no proposal was successful. The tombstone according to Jiří Sobotka's design will be completed this November, and the city will pay 135,000 crowns for it.

At the same time and for the same amount, the tombstone of initiator and long-time chairman of the International Biennial of Graphic Design Jan Rajlich, who died in 2016, will also be completed. "The design is inspired by a geometric element (circle, broken circle) that reflects Rajlich's work. It also symbolically points to his profession as a graphic designer - using motifs of printing and impression, punch and matrix," Poňuchálek stated.

The Central Cemetery in Brno has 80,000 burial sites and is the largest in the Czech Republic. The magistrate plans to restore the greenery for tens of millions of crowns and reconstruct the main paths and public lighting for 103 million crowns. The work is expected to take several years.