Schliersee glassworks
The Schliersee glassworks existed from 1867 to 1914 in the Breitenbach district of the Schliersee municipality in the Miesbach district in Upper Bavaria . It was one of the most important producers of Art Nouveau glass in Bavaria.
The glass dealer Ludwig Lobmeyr (1829-1917) brought out a book in 1874 on the glass industry . For Schliersee he states: “Company J. Reinemann, founded in 1867. 1 furnace with 7 ports for hollow glass , direct wood firing. 1 furnace with 8 ports for sheet glass , peat gas firing according to the Siebert system. Produces ordinary white hollow glass and sheet glass. Glassmakers: 50, refiners (refiners): 6th member of the Bavarian and Swabian Gauverband in the association of glass industrialists. "
The Schlierseer Glashütte experienced its heyday after the merger with the Regenhütte and the Ludwigsthal glassworks near Lindberg in the Bavarian Forest . They appeared from 1901 under the name Vereinigte bayerische Krystallglasfabriken AG . At that time, the Schlierseer Hütte was managed by Heinrich Mayer. The most famous product of the hut in Schliersee were the so-called Schlierseer vases , mostly very high iridescent Art Nouveau vases , which became known in the trade under the brand name Aspasia . Typical motifs included a poppy capsule decor in the style of Sütterlin and a gloxinia motif . In Schliersee, production was also carried out based on designs by the renowned Munich artist Jean Beck .
After the beginning of the First World War in 1914, the Schlierseer glassworks was closed.
literature
- Christiane Sellner: Glass Art Nouveau from Bavaria. The Poschinger and Steigerwald huts 1899–1914 . Grafenau 1992
- Passauer Glasmuseum (Ed.): Das Böhmische Glas , Volume V, 1995
- Dorfverein Regenhütte (Ed.): Chronicle Regenhütte , 2000
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ludwig Lobmeyr (ed.): The glass industry, its history, current development and statistics . Stuttgart 1874, p. 265. (digitized) , accessed on August 9, 2015
- ↑ Pictures from Schlierseer Vasen.Retrieved on August 9, 2015