The Glass of the Architects: Vienna 1900-1937

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The Glass of the Architects: Vienna 1900-1937 is the second one exhibition dedicated to international developments in 20th-century glass, after Glass from Finland within the Bischofberger Collection. The exhibitions are a part of the “Le Stanze del Vetro” project jointly run by the Fondazione Giorgio Cini and Pentagram Stiftung for the purpose of studying and promoting the art of glassmaking within the 20th and 21st centuries.

Published at the occasion of the exhibition in Venice, this volume presents over 300 works from the selection of the MAK Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Latest Art in Vienna and private collections. It focuses for the first time at the history of glassmaking in Austria from 1900 to 1937, a period spanning the last decades of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the First Republic.

In the early 20th century a group of young architects, designers, and fine arts and architecture students developed a special interest within the process of glassmaking. Many of them were to win fame as leading figures in Viennese Modernism, such as Josef Hoffmann (1870-1956), Koloman Moser (1868-1918), Joseph Maria Olbrich (1867-1908), Leopold Bauer (1872-1938), Otto Prutscher (1880-1949), Oskar Strnad (1879-1935), Oswald Haerdtl (1899-1959) and Adolf Loos (1870-1933). They prepared the ground to the first pioneering developments in 20th-century glass production as they worked with the furnaces so as to gain a thorough figuring out of the material. The collaboration between architects and designers and the introduction in their innovations to production created the style of Viennese Glass, found in new projects such as the Wiener Werkstätte or the Austrian Werkbund.

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