The Frauenau Glass Museum (german: link=no, Glasmuseum Frauenau) in

Frauenau Frauenau is a municipality in the district of Regen, in Bavaria, Germany. It is known for its artificial lake, which is used as a water supply of the area around Deggendorf Deggendorf () is a town in Bavaria, Germany, capital of the Deggendor ...

in the

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n county of

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, 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

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. 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 Erwin Eisch (; 18 April 1927 – 25 January 2022) was a German artist who worked with glass. He was also a painter, draughtsman, and printmaker. Eisch's work in glass, along with that of his friend and colleague Harvey Littleton, embodies the i ...

Harvey Littleton Harvey Littleton (June 14, 1922 – December 13, 2013) was an American glass artist and educator, one of the founders of the studio glass movement; he is often referred to as the "Father of the Studio Glass Movement". Born in Corning, New Yor ...

and

Sybren Valkema Sybren Valkema (1916–1996) was a Dutch glass artist and teacher, and founder of the European Studio Glass Movement, also known as VRIJ GLAS (Free Glass). Background and education Sybren Valkema was raised in an anthroposophic, artistic and pol ...

, with the highly regarded special exhibition ''Venini-Murano'' (

Wolfgang Kermer Wolfgang Kermer (born 18 May 1935 in Neunkirchen, Saarland) is a German art historian, artist, art educator, author, editor, curator of exhibitions, art collector and professor. From 1971 to 1984 he was repeatedly elected Rector of the State Aca ...

collection).

Donation Wolfgang Kermer

In 1982, the museum received a significant donation from the private studio glass collection of

. 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 gift from Wolfgang Kermer. As the

Bayerische Staatszeitung The Bayerische Staatszeitung (''Bavarian National Newspaper'') and its sister publication, the Bayerische Staatsanzeiger (''Bavarian National Advertiser'') are weekly newspapers published by Bayerische Staatszeitung GmbH., a newspaper publishing co ...

wrote in 2009, the Wolfgang Kermer collection is ″a cornerstone of the museum′s permanent exhibition″. The following artists are represented in the donation: * Belgium: Georges Collignon, Louis Leloup * Denmark: Per Lütken * Germany:

, Aloys Ferdinand Gangkofner, Max Gangkofner, Konrad Habermeier, Hans Klein, Kristian Klepsch, Rosemarie Lierke, Hanns Model,

Klaus Moje Klaus Moje (5 October 1936 – 24 September 2016) was a German born, Australian glass artist and educator. Moje was the founding workshop head of the Australian National University (ANU) School of Art Glass Workshop in Canberra, Australia. ...

and Isgard Moje-Wohlgemuth, Helmut Rotter, Albin Schaedel, Bernhard Schagemann, Gerhard Schechinger, Horst Stauber,

Wilhelm Wagenfeld Wilhelm Wagenfeld (15 April 1900, Bremen, German Empire — 28 May 1990, Stuttgart, West Germany) was an important German industrial designer and former student of the Bauhaus art school. He designed glass and metal works for the Jenaer Glaswe ...

, Karl Wiedmann, Aloys Wudy, Jörg F Zimmermann * Finland:

Kaj Franck Kaj Gabriel Franck (9 November 1911 Vyborg, Grand Duchy of Finland – 26 September 1989 Santorini, Greece) was one of the leading figures of Finnish design and an influential figure in design and applied arts between 1940 and 1980. Franck's paren ...

, Kerttu Nurminen,

Heikki Orvola Heikki Orvola (born November 29, 1943 in Helsinki) is a Finnish designer and planner. He started his career as a designer in the 1960s. In 1968, he started to work at the Nuutajärvi glassworks. In 1972, he designed the ''Aurora'' set of glasses fo ...

Timo Sarpaneva Timo Tapani Sarpaneva (31 October 1926 – 6 October 2006) was an influential Finnish designer, sculptor, and educator best known in the art world for innovative work in glass, which often merged attributes of display art objects with utilitaria ...

, Nanny Still-McKinney,

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 ...

Helena Tynell Hellin Helena Tynell ( Turpeinen; 10 December 1918 — 18 January 2016) was a notable Finnish glass designer who has been described as a pioneer of Finnish glass art. Education After completing secondary education in 1938, Helena Tynell went o ...

Tapio Wirkkala Tapio Veli Ilmari Wirkkala (2 June 1915 – 19 May 1985) was a Finnish designer and sculptor, a major figure of post-war design. Life and work Wirkkala was born in Hanko in 1915. He attended the Töölö co-educational school in Helsinki. His fat ...

* France: Michel Bouchard, Jean-Paul van Lith, Claude Monod, Isabelle Monod, Claude Morin, Nicolas Morin, Jean-Claude Novaro * United Kingdom: Samuel J. Herman, Karlin Rushbrooke, Pauline Solven, Fleur Tookey * Italy:

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 ...

, Angelo Barovier, Ercole Barovier, Enrico Capuzzo, Mirko Casaril, Gino Cenedese, Giorgio Ferro, Luciano Gaspari, Peter Pelzel, Alessandro Pianon,

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 tec ...

, Tobia Scarpa, Archimede Seguso, Ermanno Toso,

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. glass ...

, Gino Vistosi, Vittorio Zecchin * Japan:

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, ...

* Netherlands: Andries Dirk Copier, Willem Heesen, Yje Theo Jansen, Floris Meydam,

* Norway: Hanna Hellum,

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 phy ...

* Poland: Halina Jastrzębowska-Sigmund, Tasios Kiriazopoulos, Henryk Albin Tomaszewski, Henry Wilkowsi, Alina Wołowska * Sweden: Olle Alberius, Gunnar Cyrén,

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 ...

, Erik Höglund,

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 sin ...

, Jan Johansson, Paul Kedelv, John-Orwar Lake, Nils Landberg, Ingeborg Lundin,

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 t ...

, Bengt Orup, Sven Palmquist, John Selbing, Gerda Strömberg, Bertil Vallien, Göran Wärff,

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 po ...

* Czech Republic: Jindra Beranek, Josef Flek sen., Petr Foltýn, Vladimir Jelinek, Ladislav Oliva, Ladislav Paleček, René Roubiček, Ludovica Smrčková, František Špinar, Jaroslav Svoboda jun., Dana Vachtová, Karel Vaňura, František Vizner * United States: Robert Coleman,

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 Am ...

, Jack Ink,

Marvin Lipofsky Marvin Bentley Lipofsky (September 1, 1938 – January 15, 2016) was an American glass artist. He was one of the six students that Studio Glass founder Harvey Littleton instructed in a program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in fall 1962 an ...

, Harvey K. Littleton, Charles Lotton, Joel Philip Myers Still ″a great friend of the glass museum″,Christina Hackl: ''Wolfgang Kermer: Ein großer Freund des Glasmuseums: seine Schenkung von über 350 Glasobjekten bildet den Grundstock der Modernen Sammlung – Neue Ausstellungsstücke überreicht''. In: Der Bayerwald-Bote, 25. Juni 2005, p. 36 Wolfgang Kermer donated in 2017 well over a hundred hand-blown French glasses, typical of the long-gone glassworks in the to-day regions

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and

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. Although the origin and dating of the glasses, formerly mass-produced goods, today rarity, are often difficult to determine – Wolfgang Kermer described his donation ″Homage to the unknown glassblower″ – several glasses can be combined with the glass factory La Rochere (

Franche-Comté Franche-Comté (, ; ; Frainc-Comtou: ''Fraintche-Comtè''; frp, Franche-Comtât; also german: Freigrafschaft; es, Franco Condado; all ) is a cultural and historical region of eastern France. It is composed of the modern departments of Doubs, ...

Literature

* Alfons Hannes (mit Beiträgen von

und

): ''Die Sammlung Wolfgang Kermer, Glasmuseum Frauenau: Glas des 20. Jahrhunderts; 50er bis 70er Jahre'' (= Bayerische Museen; 9). Schnell & Steiner, München, Zürich 1989 . * Roman Eder, Alfons Hannes: ''Frauenau, Chronik eines Bayerwalddorfes''. 2 vols. Morsak, 1999. * Katharina Eisch-Angus: ''Glas im Kontext. Konzeption und Realisierung des neuen Glasmuseums Frauenau''. In: ''Museumsgestaltung. Qualität als Schlüssel der Besucherorientierung''. Berichtsband des Oö. Museumstags 2008 in Wels. Hrsg. vom Verbund österreichischer Museen. Leonding/Austria, 2009, S. 14–25
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(pdf; 1.2 MB) * Katharina Eisch-Angus: ''Mit dem Glas stirbt Kultur. Europäische Transformationsprozesse im Spiegel der Glasmacherei bis zur Gegenwart.'' In: Heidrun Alzheimer (ed.): ''In Europa – Kulturelle Netzwerke lokal, regional, global'' (= ''Veröffentlichungen für Volkskunde und Kulturgeschichte'', Vol. 104). Wurzburg, 2012, pp. 37–57
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(pdf; 651 kB) * Michael Schmidt: ''Es war Vieles möglich! Alfons Hannes (1931–2010)''. Riedlhütte, 2011. * Sven Bauer: ''Glasmuseum Frauenau – Staatliches Museum zur Geschichte der Glaskultur''. Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg im Allgäu, 2017.

References

External links

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Website of the museum project group
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