Gustav van Treeck workshops for mosaic and glass painting
The Gustav van Treeck workshops for mosaics and stained glass GmbH is connected to one of the oldest glass painter families of modern times: in 1830 founded Peter Mathias van Treeck in the Rhineland tradition, a painted and by him in 1845 signed ornamental windows certifies the origin. Gustav van Treeck senior founded the company that is now in Munich . (1854–1930) in 1887 . After numerous mainly church glass paintings, he was appointed "Bavarian Court Glass Painting" in 1903.
At the time of Art Nouveau and Art Deco , the workshop first worked internationally. In 1910 the company also started making mosaics . The third generation of founders began in 1961 with Konrad van Treeck and a few years later with Peter van Treeck. In 1974 the workshop set up an additional department for the conservation and restoration of historical glass paintings. In 2015 Katja Zukic and Raphaela Knein took over the management of the workshops. In the same year, design objects made of glass were created for the first time under the name "edition van Treeck".
In 1897, the glass painter Gustav van Treeck created the three-quarter portraits of the three mayors Johannes Versmann , Johannes Lehmann and Johann Georg Mönckeberg with their family coat of arms and their motto for the so-called mayor's office in Hamburg's “New Town Hall” . These windows were destroyed by the war. On the occasion of the renovation of the Hamburg town hall for the anniversary in 1997, these windows were reconstructed by the Hamburg glass art studio Hempel based on an old photo.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Heinz-Jürgen Brandt: The Hamburg City Hall , p. 80
- ↑ http://www.glasmalerei-hamburg.de/img/galerie/Glasmalerei/glasmalerei_image012.jpg
- ↑ http://www.glasmalerei-hamburg.de/presse.php
