Zdenek Kovar (1917), pupil of V.Makovsky at the School of Arts in Zlin in 1939-1943. As a student he collaborated on a Makovsky's model of the lathe R50 for which he created control levers. He designed handles of different tools, particularly for shoe-making industry where he had been originally trained. After passing the school, he acted as an artist in the engineering plant MAS in Zlin. Since 1949 he started his teaching appointment in the field of machine and tool shaping in Zlin. The school moved to Uherske Hradiste where he educated several first industrial designers who asserted themselves in engineering industry of the Czechoslovak Republic since the mid-50s. He initiated establishing of a studio of shaping machines and tools in Gottwaldov (Zlin) and since 1959, when it became a part of the Prague School of Applied Arts, he worked here till 1982.
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