Focus: Applied Arts
To this day, Bohemia is the beating heart of European glass culture. The Bohemian glass industry has been providing innovative impulses for 800 years.
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To this day, Bohemia is the beating heart of European glass culture. The Bohemian glass industry has been providing innovative impulses for 800 years. Since the Middle Ages, the abundance of forests and raw materials and the central traffic situation in Bohemia favored the settlement of glassworks. For urban societies, the church and the Prague …
Focus: Refined crystal glass
Regional production of first-class luxury glasses at high prices is what distinguishes the Alsatian-Lorraine manufacturers of refined crystal glass. In addition to traditional designs, the luxury sector tries to create new things with a modern design language without losing sight of tradition. The top priority for the currently three manufacturing companies are the best material …
Alsace-Lorraine
For a long time, the much contested area of Alsace-Lorraine was shaped by the production of utility glass alongside high-quality lead crystal production.
Creating Glass Lives – Conference and Workshop on the Future in Glass
“Creating Glass Lives” was the headline of our conference and workshop on the future of glass from May 31st to June 1st, 2019.
TRAVELING EXHIBITION
“Glass Works – European Glass Lives in Craft, Art and Industry” Time and place:20.07. – 22.11.2020 in Grønbechs Gård, Bornholm (DK)The exhibition gives insights into five regional glass landscapes in Europe and presents current works by young glass makers in art and design. The exhibition focuses on the cultural-historical and current peculiarities and movements that …
KDAK Bornholm
Troels Degn Johansson – Associate Professor, Ph.D., scholar and leader in design, project leader in Glass Works Susanne Jøker Johnsen – Artist, teacher and exhibition curator, Head of Exhibitions and Director of European Glass Context, member of the Glass Works planning team Viki Norman Kert – Specialist teacher at the Royal Danish Academy, Bornholm, Organizer …
University of Graz
Katharina Eisch-Angus – University professor for Cultural anthropology/European Ethnology, co-chair of the board of Bild-Werk Frauenau e.V., project leader in Glass Works Lisa Eidenhammer – Cultural anthropologist, cultural manager, curator of Glass Works exhibition Johann Zuschnegg – Exhibition and graphics designer of the touring exhibition “Glass Works. European Glass Lives in Craft, Art & Industry“ …
