Albin Schaedel

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Albin Schaedel at work (around 1960)

Albin Schaedel (born September 14, 1905 in Igelshieb ; † November 18, 1999 in Neuhaus am Rennweg ) was an innovative Thuringian glass artist with an international reputation.

Live and act

Albin Schaedel came from a family with a 200-year tradition in glass production. His father was a glass bead maker. From 1912 to 1920 Schaedel attended elementary school in Neuhaus. Then he was a glass bead maker in his father's workshop, began an apprenticeship in 1924 and was a journeyman with Edmund Müller in Neuhaus from 1927. Since 1934 Schaedel worked as a freelance art glass blower. From 1934 to 1938 he sat in on the painter and graphic artist Prof. Karl Staudinger in Sonneberg . From 1940 to 1945 Schaedel was a soldier. In 1949 he was awarded the handicraft quality mark. In 1952 he passed the master's examination and was accepted into the examination committee for master glass blowers and the Association of Visual Artists. In 1954, Schaedel moved with his apartment and workshop to Arnstadt , "his second hometown". In 1980 he had to stop working in front of the glass flame for health reasons.

Schaedel was a very experimental glass artist. He developed the design of blown vessels in front of the lamp, among other things through the application of the assembly technique ("Schaedeltechnik") to a sophisticated art. He was one of the most productive and influential glass artists of his time.

Albin Schaedel wrote about himself: "And when the visitors have bright eyes, find happy words, that is more than money for me. Then the work has found meaning, life was not in vain ...".

On the occasion of his 85th birthday, an autobiographical text was published in 1990, edited by Erika Schaedel, completed on April 15, 1987, which describes in detail Albin Schaedel’s living conditions and artistic career.

Schaedel was married twice. His first wife died early. But his second wife also died before him. His grave is also in Neuhaus, Schaedel's birthplace.

Exhibitions

  • First international recognition in 1959 at the "Glass" exhibition in the Corning Museum of Glass (New York)
  • In 1974, Schaedel gave most of his artistic work to the Erfurt museums. In 1975 there was a large Albin-Schaedel exhibition in the Angermuseum in Erfurt: 128 glasses, tumblers, goblets, bowls, vases in many colors.
  • In 1978 Arnstadt set up an "Albin-Schaedel-Kabinett" in the castle museum.
  • Schaedel exhibits can be seen in museums in Arnstadt, Erfurt, Frauenau , Lauscha , Leipzig, Berlin, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt am Main, Cologne, London, Sapporo in Japan and Corning NY in the USA.
  • In 2010, the Angermuseum Erfurt acquired three glasses with ribbon decoration from Albin Schaedel for a permanent exhibition, which enabled it to expand its holdings to 106 pieces from the artist's hand.
  • In his birthplace Igelshieb, exhibits by Albin Schaedel are on display in the Geißlerhaus Museum.

Honors

  • "Recognized artist of the craft" 1955
  • Gold Medal for Crafts 1964
  • Main prize of the 1st Quadrennial of Arts and Crafts of the Socialist Countries in Erfurt 1974
  • Art Prize of the GDR 1974
  • Honorary award at the exhibition "Coburg Glass Prize" 1977
  • National Prize of the GDR for Art and Literature 1978
  • Honorary participant at the world exhibition "World Glass Now 1982" in Sapporo / Japan
  • Honorary citizen of Arnstadt 1993
  • Honorary citizen of Neuhaus am Rennweg 1994
  • Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon 1997

Fonts

Erika Schaedel (Ed.): Albin Schaedel: A life for the glass. For the 85th birthday . With contributions by Fritz Kämper and M. and M. Steinbiß. Kranichfeld: Hahndruck [typesetting and printing], undated [1990]

literature

  • Fritz fighter: Albin Schaedel. Glass art . 1957
  • Adelheid Mahnert and Marita Steffens: Albin Schaedel. Blown glass in front of the lamp . Catalog of the Angermuseum Erfurt for the 1979 exhibition
  • Alfons Hannes (with contributions by Wolfgang Kermer and Erwin Eisch ): The Wolfgang Kermer Collection, Frauenau Glass Museum : Glass of the 20th Century; 50s to 70s . Schnell & Steiner, Munich, Zurich 1989 (= Bavarian Museums, Volume 9) ISBN 3-7954-0753-2 , pp. 50–51 m. Color ill.
  • Mathias Klein: Schaedel, Albin . In "Chronicle of Arnstadt". Kirchschlager, Arnstadt 2003. pp. 413-414
  • Uwe Claassen: From craft to art. Art glassblowers in the Thuringian Forest after 1945. In: Yearbook of the Coburg State Foundation, Vol. 53/2008, pp. 325–350.

Web links

Commons : Albin Schaedel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Herbert Schönemann: Laudation for Albin Schaedel on the occasion of the award of the honorary citizenship of the city of Arnstadt in 1993. In: "From the past of Arnstadt". Ed. Thüringer Geschichtsverein Arnstadt eV, 4th issue, Arnstadt 1994, pp. 169–171
  2. ^ Website of the district of Sonneberg. Retrieved July 12, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Schaedel, Albin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German glass artist
DATE OF BIRTH September 14, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Hedgehog blow
DATE OF DEATH November 18, 1999
Place of death Neuhaus am Rennweg