Strasser glass collection
The Strasser Glass Collection is a permanent exhibition that is housed in the Ambras Castle Art History Museum in Innsbruck . The collection includes a total of over 300 glasses, which were first shown to the public in an exhibition in the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna in 2002 under the title “Light and Color”. Today it is shown at Ambras Castle, with around 60 glasses being integrated into the Kunstkammer Wien of the Kunsthistorisches Museum. The Strasser Glass Collection is one of the world's most important glass collections for glass from the Renaissance and Baroque periods .
The collection
The Strasser Glass Collection has been housed in four rooms of the Ambras Castle since 2013. It is a collection of glass from the Renaissance, Baroque and Classicism periods, which is one of the most important of its kind in terms of volume and quality. It includes precious trophies , cups , bar glasses and tankards but also joking vessels from the most important European glass producer regions such as Venice, Hall in Tirol, Innsbruck, Germany, Bohemia, Silesia and the Netherlands.
It shows lavishly decorated glasses with diamond cracks and dots, copper wheel engraving, high and low cut, black solder painting , intermediate gold glasses and glasses made of gold ruby glass . They tell the story and the technique of glass art from the beginning of the 16th century to the end of the 18th century.
Rudolf Strasser
The collector Rudolf Strasser (1919–2014) collected glass from the Renaissance to the Biedermeier period for more than 50 years. At the end of his life he wanted his glasses exhibited in important houses. In 2004 he donated his treasures from the Renaissance to Classicism to the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna. His Biedermeier glass was acquired by the Princely Collections in Liechtenstein.
Ambras Castle in Innsbruck was the ideal location for Rudolf Strasser to present his collection, as Archduke Ferdinand II (1529–1595), the founder of the Ambras collections, was also a real glass lover. He was the first prince to set up his own court glassworks in Innsbruck during the Renaissance, in which glassmakers from Murano produced sumptuous glasses and glass objects according to his ideas and wishes, some of which are still preserved today in the Ambras Chamber of Art and Curiosities as well as in the Kunstkammer Vienna.
Others
In a special tribute to Rudolf Strasser, the Ambras Glass Talks are held in the Strasser Glass Collection, at which well-known experts from the various specialist areas give very personal insights into the world of glass art. This series of talks was started in 2015 in order to realize Rudolf Strasser's vision of establishing Ambras as an international glass center through both the Strasser Glass Collection and events on the subject.
Individual evidence
- ^ Strasser, Rudolf von: light and color, decorated glass, Renaissance, Baroque, Biedermeier, the Rudolf von Strasser collection . Writings of the Kulturhistorisches Museum Wien, volume 7 . Skira-Berenice Editore, Milano and Vienna 2002, ISBN 88-8491-211-3 .
- ↑ Lehner-Jobst, Claudia: "Happiness is a glass thing ..." The Strasser Glass Collection . Ed .: Haag, Sabine. Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-99020-038-4 , p. 128 p .
- ↑ Ambras Glass Talks. Retrieved August 19, 2019 .
