Jena glass
Jenaer Glas is the name given to a heat-resistant and chemically resistant borosilicate glass developed by Otto Schott in 1887 . Today, household goods are sold under license from Zwiesel Kristallglas AG under the Jenaer Glas brand. Under the Trendglas Jena brand, Csonka és Fiai GmbH continues production on the original molds and machines in Hungary.
history
The "fireproof" utility glass has been produced and sold in Jena since the 1920s under the brand name JENAer GLAS . It found application in both industry and household appliances.
Important designers have been involved in the design of these products since the 1920s: Gerhard Marcks , Wilhelm Wagenfeld , Heinrich Löffelhardt , Bruno Mauder , Ilse Decho and Hans Merz . An advertising campaign initiated by the Bauhaus artist László Moholy-Nagy in the 1930s contributed significantly to the success.
In the GDR , Jenaer Glas was a popular export item to the NSW (non-socialist economic area) and a valuable source of foreign currency .
In mid-2005, Schott AG stopped producing Jenaer Glas at the company's founding location in Jena, after several million marks had been invested in a new production line in the 1990s. The furnace was drained and shut down on April 29, 2005. Post-processing was closed at the end of May 2005.
The Jenaer Glas brand remained in the company's possession, and the license was granted to Zwiesel Kristallglas AG on January 1, 2006 , which has since been selling products in the household goods segment under the brand.
Csonka és Fiai GmbH has been a partner of SCHOTT Jenaer Glas GmbH since 1996 in the manufacture of heat-resistant glass products. After Schott discontinued the production of household glass, Csonka founded Trendglas Jena GmbH with the former head of the household glassware department of the Jenaer Glaswerk and since 2005 has continued the production of heat-resistant household glassware on the original molds and machines of the Jenaer Glaswerk under the Trendglas Jena brand. So the company became one of the largest manufacturers of heat-resistant glass products in Europe.
Jenaer Glas stand at the Leipzig Trade Fair (Rössing, Sep. 1952)
Typical GDR advertisement, still to be seen in Leipzig in 2013
Detail, ibid
literature
- Helmut Hannes: News from the Jena glass kitchen. Wagenfeld's designs for the Jena glassworks Schott & Gen. 1931 - 1937. Brand panel for the “Jenaer Glasküche”. Catalog raisonné 1931 - 1937. In: Beate Manske (Ed.): Contemporary and timely. 2. Industrial forms by Wilhelm Wagenfeld. Hauschild, Bremen 2012, ISBN 978-3-89757-482-3 (with revised catalog raisonné 1923–1949, including Bauhaus, Jenaer Glas, Vereinigte Lausitzer Glaswerke).
- Helmut Hannes: New Jena Glass. Öffelhardt's designs for Schott & Gen. Mainz . In: Carlo Burschel (Ed.): Heinrich Löffelhardt. Industrial forms from the 1950s to 1960s made of porcelain and glass. Hauschild, Bremen 2004, ISBN 3-931-785-59-9 .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Accompaniment on a difficult path . In: SCHOTT IN JENA - employee newspaper of SCHOTT JENAer GLAS GmbH . June / July 2005, p. 11.