Immenhausen Glass Museum
The Immenhausen Glass Museum is located on the Reinhardswald near Kassel . It is sponsored by the city of Immenhausen . The museum is supported and sponsored by the "Society of Friends of Glass Art Richard Süßmuth eV"
history
The glass museum was opened in 1987 in the converted generator building of the former Süßmuth glassworks . The museum provides insights into the history of glass production from its beginnings in the Middle East almost 6000 years ago to the forest glassworks of the 16th century in the North Hessian - South Lower Saxony area. The most important exhibit is an enamel-painted prince-elector hump from 1597.
exhibition
Glass trade in Immenhausen
The focus of the exhibition is on the glass industry at the Immenhausen smelter site. In addition to the manufacturing and finishing techniques, which are presented using tools, machines, photos and videos from the glassworks, there is information on the regional distribution of the art of glassmaking and the working and living conditions of glassmakers in the forest glassworks in Northern Hesse.
The history of the Immenhausen glassworks documented in the museum begins in 1898, when the company, founded by two entrepreneurs in 1809, was relocated from Ziegenhagen to Immenhausen by the von Buttlar gentlemen . The company, in which mainly medical-pharmaceutical glass and simple household glass was manufactured, experienced an economic boom after the takeover by Hermann Lamprecht before the First World War, which was mainly due to the invention and production of the patented medicine dropper bottles , which are sold worldwide were. At the end of the 1920s, production was stopped due to inflation and the global economic crisis .
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Glass trade in Penzig
Richard Süßmuth , the namesake of the last glassworks in Immenhausen, is of particular importance in the museum collection. In the 1920s, the glass cutter and graduate of the Dresden University of Arts and Crafts in Penzig in Silesia founded a workshop for glass refinement, in which he sparingly decorated colorless glass with a typical cut, thereby achieving international success. After the Second World War he took over the production facility in Immenhausen as a displaced person and built on his successes in the 1920s and 1930s. The history of the finishing workshop in Penzig and the glassworks in Immenhausen is explained through glass objects as well as photos and information boards. From 1948 onwards, under Süssmuth's direction, art and utility glass he designed was again produced. Numerous exhibits show the design he designed and the typical cut of colorless glasses.
Utility glass
Another focus of the museum's permanent exhibition is the history of the development of utility glass from Art Nouveau to the present day. Using goblets, vases and other everyday objects, it shows how glass design has changed from 1890 to the present day, what new manufacturing techniques and types of glass have been developed in the past century and how glass is also subject to fashion. That is why works by important designers and various glassworks from home and abroad can be seen here.
Modern glass art
A section of the museum is dedicated to modern glass art. Since the mid-1960s, artists benefited from the development of a small furnace that made them independent of the glassworks. In the so-called studio glass movement , art objects with a predominantly decorative character were created. The museum has an extensive international collection of these objects, which shows the development of modern glass art.
Special exhibitions deal with various national and international glass artists and their work, but also with various topics from the areas of glass production and finishing.
Immenhäuser Glass Prize
Since 2000, the city of Immenhausen has announced the “Immenhausen Glass Prize” every three years in a contest for contemporary glass art. A maximum of two new works by more than 70 glass artists based in Germany, which should have been created within the last 3 years and have not yet been presented to an audience, may be submitted.
Workshops, concerts and lectures are also held in the museum.
Web links
- Homepage of the Immenhausen Glass Museum , accessed on July 12, 2012
- Presentation on the website of the Metallurgical Association of the German Glass Industry e. V. (HVG) and the Deutsche Glastechnische Gesellschaft e. V. (DGG) , accessed on July 12, 2012
Coordinates: 51 ° 25 ′ 38.6 ″ N , 9 ° 27 ′ 56.2 ″ E