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Glass Study Collection

Glass Study Collection

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Glass Study Collection

Glass Study Collection

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Josef Hoffmann: Vases

Josef Hoffmann: Vases

Vienna, ca. 1923 and Vienna, ca. 1922
Manufacture: Bohemian manufacture for the Wiener Werkstätte Yellowish-green glass Gl 3311 / 1972 Manufacture: Johann Oertel & Co. for the Wiener Werkstätte Purple glass, mold-blown LHG 1984-16 / 2007
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Glass Study Collection

Glass Study Collection

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Oswald Haerdtl: Stemmed Glasses, Drinking Service No. 240 "Ambassador"

Oswald Haerdtl: Stemmed Glasses, Drinking Service No. 240 "Ambassador"

Vienna, 1924/25
Manufacture: Karlsbader Kristallglasfabriken A.G. for J. & L. Lobmeyr Colorless glass Gl 2438 / 1926, Gl 2439 / 1926
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Karl Massanetz: Stemmed Glass

Karl Massanetz: Stemmed Glass

Vienna, 1914
Manufacture: Workshop of Karl Massanatz, Steinschönau (décor) for J. & L. Lobmeyr Colorless glass, black ink drawing with gilding Gl 3411 / 1982
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Glass Study Collection

Glass Study Collection

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Glass Study Collection

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Glass Study Collection

Curator: Rainald Franz, curator, Glass and Ceramics Collection

One focus of the rearranged study collection is on glass production in the Imperial and Royal Monarchy, which had reached a high point in quality and variety around the turn of the century. This boom was brought about by the complex interaction of a number of factors and a widespread network of merchant-employers, designers, trade schools, and glassworks.

In most cases, glass was not designed, produced, and refined in one and the same factory. Glassworks rather purchased designs from artists, which they then produced using their own or purchased raw glass. Trade schools were provided by the glass factories with raw glass for in-class refining and in return supplied royalty-free designs to the industry.

Merchant-employers such as J. & L. Lobmeyr or E. Bakalowits & Söhne, both based in Vienna, played an important role as intermediaries in that they provided for designs and had them executed, but without appearing as manufacturers in their own name.

Being the cultural and political capital city of the monarchy, Vienna also was the center of the art avant-garde, among whose most eminent exponents were Josef Hoffmann, Gustav Klimt, Koloman Moser, Michael Powolny, Jutta Sika, Carl Witzmann, and others. Here, the designs were created which were then produced in the traditional glass-industry regions of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, that is, in Bohemia.

The artist designs were produced in very small series only and not directly incorporated in the glasswork’s standard line of production. These extremely modern revolutionary designs nevertheless had a model character which subsequently inspired new form concepts developed for the standard line of production.

The most important glassworks and refineries that worked together with artists from Vienna included the Johann Lötz Witwe glassworks at Klostermühle (Klášterský Mlýn) in the Bohemian Forest, known for its iridescent décors; the company of Meyr’s Neffe at Adolf near Winterberg (Adolfov near Vimperk), which stands for cut, engraved, and painted crystal glass; the glassworks of Ludwig Moser at Karlsbad (Karlovy Vary); the refineries of Johann Oertel & Co and Carl Schappel at Haida (Nový Bor), and others.

The trade schools were in close contact with the Austrian Museum of Art and Industry, today’s MAK, and the Vienna Arts and Crafts School whose teachers created designs for the Bohemian glass industry and whose graduates often went to be teachers at the trade schools. Moreover, the schools regularly participated in the museum’s winter exhibitions where they presented their latest designs.

Contemporary objects from J. & L. Lobmeyr throw a bridge right into the 21st century. Continuing the tradition of the cooperation between artists and industry, Barbara Ambrosz, Florian Ladstätter, Miki Martinek, Sebastian Menschhorn, Peter Noever, and Polka (Marie Rahm, Monica Singer) designed glass objects for J. & L. Lobmeyr, which the company, acting as an intermediary, had produced in Bohemian manufactories.

Another aspect of the Study Collection is stained glass both in the sacred and secular realms. The earliest examples, dating from the 14th century and coming from St. Stephen’s in Vienna, count among the oldest extant examples of stained glass art in Austria.

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