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Frauenau Glass Museum
The Frauenau Glass Museum (german: link=no, Glasmuseum Frauenau) in Frauenau in the Lower Bavarian county of Regen, previously a communal facility, has become a state-owned organisation since early 2014 called the State Museum of the History of Glass Culture (''Staatliches Museum zur Geschichte der Glaskultur'') run by the Free State of Bavaria. The museum curator is the art-historian, Karin Rühl. The museum was opened on 6 May 1975 by the founder of the museum, Alfons Hannes, in the presence of numerous international glass artists, including Erwin Eisch, Harvey Littleton and Sybren Valkema, with the highly regarded special exhibition ''Venini-Murano'' (Wolfgang Kermer collection). Donation Wolfgang Kermer In 1982, the museum received a significant donation from the private studio glass collection of Wolfgang Kermer. A selection from this collection had already been shown in a special exhibition from 1976 to 1977 and then remained, considerably expanded, in the museum as a g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oiva Toikka
Oiva Kalervo Toikka (29 May 1931 – 22 April 2019) was a Finnish glass designer, best known for his designs for Iittala. Biography Oiva Toikka was born in Viipurin maalaiskunta, the rural municipality surrounding then-Finnish Vyborg, now part of Russia. He grew up in a farm and was influenced by the rich history of the area. Oiva Toikka was renowned for his designs for glassware for the Finnish design company Iittala. Originally trained in ceramics at the University of Art and Design Helsinki, he took up glass design later in life. Some of his best known works are the Kastehelmi and Flora tableware from the 1960s and the Pioni and Krouvi collections from the 1970s. Along with his glassware designs, Toikka is best known for his designs for the Iittala "Birds by Toikka" series. From 1972 until his death in 2019, Toikka created over 400 mouth-blown glass birds. Although Toikka originally worked at the Nuutajärvi glassworks in Urjala, his designs are currently produced at the I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claire Falkenstein
Claire Falkenstein (; July 22, 1908 – October 23, 1997) was an American sculptor, painter, printmaker, jewelry designer, and teacher, most renowned for her often large-scale abstract metal and glass public sculptures. Falkenstein was one of America's most experimental and productive 20th-century artists. Falkenstein relentlessly explored media, techniques, and processes with uncommon daring and intellectual rigor. Though she was respected among the burgeoning post–World War II art scene in Europe and the United States, her disregard for the commodification of art coupled with her peripatetic movement from one art metropolis to another made her an elusive figure. Falkenstein first worked in the San Francisco Bay Area, then in Paris and New York, and finally in Los Angeles. She was involved with art groups as radical as the Gutai Group in Japan and Un Art Autre in Paris and secured a lasting position in the vanguard, which she held until her death in 1997. An interest in Eins ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ann Wolff
Ann Wolff (born 1937, Lübeck, Germany) is a glass artist who lives and works in both Gotland, Sweden, and in Berlin, Germany. Wolff's blown, engraved, and cast work explores the lives of women, their relationship with one another, and their position in society. She is considered one of the founders of the international Studio Glass movement. Biography Born in Lübeck, Germany, Wolff moved to Sweden after graduating from the Ulm School of Design in 1959. Her career as a glass designer and artist led to her involvement as an instructor at the Pilchuck Glass School in Seattle, Washington, as early as 1977. Wolff was born Ann Warff but changed her last name to Wolff in 1985. She established a non-profit foundation, AWC (Ann Wolff Collection Foundation), in Berlin, Germany, in 2008. Career Wolff trained at Hochschule für Gestaltung, Ulm, Germany between 1956 and 1959. She has worked as a designer at Pukeberg Glasbruk, Sweden, and Kosta Boda, Kosta, Sweden. She established an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edvin Öhrström
Karl ''Edvin'' Öhrström (August 22, 1906 in Burlöv – December 2, 1994) was a Swedish sculptor and glass artist. Öhrström grew up in Halmstad, where his father worked at the railroad. He started to work as a railroad worker, he trained to become an art teacher at Tekniska skolan (current Konstfack) in Stockholm 1925–1928, and at the sculptural department at the Royal University College of Fine Arts 1928–1931, with Carl Milles and Nils Sjögren as teachers. In 1932, in Paris, France. From 1932 to 1957, he worked two months per year at Orrefors Glasbruk in Småland. He often used the ''ariel'' technique, which he had invented together with the master Gustaf Bergkvist and the artist Vicke Lindstrand. Later, he worked at Lindshammars Glasbruk, where he developed his sculptures to prisms of gemstone colors that played with light reflections and refractions in the glass. Edvin Öhrstrom won a contest for the decoration of Sergels torg in Stockholm, with a 37.5 metres hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ulrica Hydman Vallien
upVase by Vallien, created in 1978. Ulrica Margareta Hydman Vallien (24 March 1938 – 21 March 2018) was a Swedish artist who specialized in stained glass and decorative painting. In Sweden, she became best known for her vases with motifs of sinuous snakes, tulips and wolves. Work upSpirits Vase, 1986 Ulrica Hydman Vallien was the daughter of Stig Johan Hydman and Margit Billberg-Johansson, and lived in Algutsboda. She made her debut as a glass-artist in 1972. As a protest against the conservative artist world she create the "rat bowl". Hydman Vallien was one of only 50 artists chosen to work with British Airways to create designs for aircraft tails, napkins, porcelain, tickets and stationery for the fleet. She also took part in the Swedish National Museum exhibition ''Unga tecknare'' 1964–1966. Hydman Vallien's work can be seen at Nationalmuseum, Moderna Museet, Kalmar Konstmuseum, the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the University of Michigan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Hald
Edward Hald (17 September 1883 – 4 July 1980) was a Swedish sculptor. His work was part of the art competitions at the 1932 Summer Olympics and the 1936 Summer Olympics The 1936 Summer Olympics (German: ''Olympische Sommerspiele 1936''), officially known as the Games of the XI Olympiad (German: ''Spiele der XI. Olympiade'') and commonly known as Berlin 1936 or the Nazi Olympics, were an international multi-sp .... References 1883 births 1980 deaths 20th-century Swedish sculptors Swedish male sculptors Olympic competitors in art competitions Artists from Stockholm {{Sweden-sculptor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benny Motzfeldt
Benny Anette Motzfeldt (née Berg Nilssen; 26 June 190924 November 1995) was a Norwegian visual artist and glass designer and sculptor. Biography Benny Anette Berg Motzfeldt was born at Levanger in Trøndelag, Norway. She was a daughter of physician Andreas Berg Nilssen (1876–1952) and Benny Marie Dahl (1878–1955). She was educated at the Norwegian National Academy of Craft and Art Industry (''Statens Håndverks- og Kunstindustriskole'') (1931-35) and debuted at the Autumn Exhibition (''Høstutstillingen'') in Oslo (1936). She engaged as a designer of glass art by Christiania Glasmagasin (1955) and Hadeland Glassverk (1955-67). Later she was an artistic director at Randsfjord Glassworks (1967-70) and then at Glasshytta at PLUS in Fredrikstad, which she led in the period 1970–79. Motzfeldt is particularly known for her works with glass. Her works are represented at various museums in Norway, at the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design in Oslo, at the Victoria a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kyohei Fujita
was a Japanese glass artist. He received training early in his career as a worker in the factory of Toshichi Iwata and his early work shows Iwata's influence in style and materials. Fujita later matured as a glass artist and developed his own, unique style. With Histoshi Iwata, son of Toshichi Iwata, and fifty other artists, Fujita established the Japan Glass Artcrafts Association in 1972. Kyohei Fujita is best known for his glass boxes with complicated surface decorations, and his work was included in the exhibit ''One of a Kind: The Studio Craft Movement'' at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, December 22, 2006 – September 3, 2007. References * Boone, Thomas, David J. Wagner, Kikuo Atarashi and Shigeki Fukunaga, ''Kyohei Fujita, First American Glass Exhibition'', Lathrup Village, Michigan, Habatat Galleries, 1981. * Fujita, Kyohei, ''Free Blown Glassware by Kyohei Fujita'', Tokyo, Takashimaya, 1992. * Fujita, Kyohei, ''Kyohei Fujita, Unikate in Glas aus Japan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paolo Venini
Paolo Venini (12 January 1895– 22 July 1959) emerged as one of the leading figures in the production of Murano glass and an important contributor to twentieth century Italian design. He is known for having founded the eponymous Venini & C. glassworks. Early life and education Venini was born in the town of Cusano near Milan, Italy. After serving in the Royal Italian Army in World War I, he trained as a lawyer and began his practice in Milan. He soon developed an acquaintance with Giacomo Cappellin, a native of Venice who owned a Milan antiques shop. Murano glassworks In 1921 Venini and Cappellin opened a glass factory called Vetri Soffiati Muranesi Cappellin Venini & C. on the islands of Murano, the historic glass production centre in the lagoon of Venice, Italy. With Luigi Ceresa and Emilio Hochs as investors, they arranged to purchase the recently closed Murano glass factory of Andrea Rioda, hire the former firm's glassblowers, and retain Rioda himself to serve as tec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlo Scarpa
Carlo Scarpa (2 June 1906 – 28 November 1978) was an Italian architect, influenced by the materials, landscape and the history of Venetian culture, and by Japan. Scarpa translated his interests in history, regionalism, invention, and the techniques of the artist and craftsman into ingenious glass and furniture design. Biography Scarpa was born in Venice. Much of his early childhood was spent in Vicenza, where his family relocated when he was 2 years old. After his mother's death when he was 13, he moved with his father and brother back to Venice. Carlo attended the Academy of Fine Arts where he focused on architectural studies. Graduated from the Accademia in Venice, with the title of Professor of Architecture, he apprenticed with the architect Francesco Rinaldo. Scarpa married Rinaldo's niece, Nini Lazzari (Onorina Lazzari). However, Scarpa refused to sit the ''pro forma'' professional exam administrated by the Italian Government after World War II. As a consequence, he w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sergio Asti
Sergio Asti (25 May 1926 – 27 July 2021) was an Italian designer and architect, primarily known for his industrial designs for firms such as Artemide, Brionvega, , Gabbianelli, Heller, Knoll, Salviati, and Zanotta. Life and career Asti was born in Milan. After receiving his degree in architecture at the Polytechnic University of Milan, he opened his own design studio in 1956. That same year he became one of the founders of the Associazione per il Disegno Industriale. While still a student he designed a soda syphon for Saccab which became an icon of 1950s Italian design. It was nominated for a Compasso d'Oro in 1956, exhibited at the Milan Triennial exhibition in 1957, and later at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. It is in the permanent collection of the Triennale di Milano museum. He went on to win the Compasso d'Oro in 1962 for his glass vase "Marco" manufactured by Salvati, examples of which are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Victo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
