Glass picture
In contrast to architecture-related glass painting, the glass picture sees itself as an autonomous , artistically designed, glass work of art in the form of smaller cabinet panes . The transparent glass image is also deliberately different from the reverse glass painting experienced in incident light .
history
For centuries , glass paintings led a shadowy existence alongside the formerly mainly sacred, and since the late Middle Ages often profane, firmly integrated into the architecture.
The glass picture emancipated itself as an artistically independent form in the second half of the 20th century. In addition to the cabinet windows that were common at the time, artists discovered the advantages of the smaller and therefore more manageable, architecturally unbound window panes. Often, sections of planned glass paintings were realized as such in the form of test fields and sample panes.
Individual artists increasingly turned to the glass picture as an independent form.
Artist
Horst Hähle created a large number of mobile glass pictures from heavily shaded, blown real antique glasses in the traditional lead compound.
Ada Isensee uses the techniques of glass painting to create her pictorial worlds on mouth-blown overlaid glasses by sandblasting, etching or painting.
Nabo Gass uses the transparency of the glass. His pictures consist of several levels that are designed differently. With the complexity of his glass work, the interplay of different overlays, he refers to the contradictions of a multi-faceted reality.
Modern glass pictures
Industrially produced glass pictures are printed using new printing processes such as the UV inkjet process or lasered using laser technology and are replacing traditional painting. The glass engraving and the digital printing have thereby become established in industrial production. By using modern printing machines, it is possible to print almost any motif on the glass surface. Photographic motifs and abstract shapes are particularly popular. Another form of the glass image is the photo print behind cut real glass. With this variant, the motif is printed on a thin paper background and glued and sealed behind cut real glass. An engraving on the inside of the glass, on the other hand, is created with modern lasers and is mostly colorless. The glass pictures are mainly used in the living area as decoration or increasingly in the kitchen as a replacement for the tiled mirror or the complete kitchen rear wall. The format dimensions vary greatly, as the dimensions of the glass images depend on the respective printing machine. In principle, however, any format can be implemented.
literature
- Ada Isensee, glass picture, etching, drawing, 1990 Hirmer Verlag Munich, ISBN 3-7774-5480-X
- Nabo Gaß Bild inventor, publisher: Deutsches Glasmalerei-Museum, 2000, ISBN 3-9806045-1-9
- Broken Glass, Glas in kunst en architectur, Wienand-Verlag, 2005, p. 86ff, ISBN 3-87909-875-1