Pavel Molnar

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Pavel Molnar (2006)

Pavel Molnár (Molnar) (born February 8, 1940 in Vojnice , Slovakia ) is an important European glassblower , glass artist and pioneer of the studio glass movement . Today he lives in the Bohemian town of Český Krumlov (Krumau), Czech Republic.

biography

After finishing high school, Pavel Molnar attended the glass school in Železný Brod . In 1965 he moved to Germany. Here he first worked as a laboratory glass blower in industry. From 1967 he created artistic works.

Molnar founded his own workshop in Munich in 1968 and worked as a freelance art glass blower at the Deutsches Museum in Munich.

The move in 1977 to Barsbüttel , where a workshop with its own harbor furnace was built in the same year , was followed in 1981 by the establishment of a training center for glass production and glass blowing in front of the lamp .

Two years later, Molnar received a teaching position in Stanwood (Washington), USA (Pilchuck Glass School). In 1990 he took part in the International Glass Symposium in Gus-Chrustalny (GUS). In 1991 he took on a teaching position at the Sars-Poteries summer school (France).

Awards

  • 1974 - Annual award of the Danner'schen Kunstgewerbestiftung Munich.
  • 1981 - Bavarian State Prize - Gold Medal of the International Crafts Fair Munich
  • 1985 - Second prize at the Süßmuth Glass Art Days.

plant

Pavel Molnar's vases and glass objects appear like naturally grown vegetative stone or crystal forms.

By the year 1979, the artist practiced mainly the glass lamp blown , then he also works in the so-called metallurgical engineering at the stove. As a rule, he combines both techniques and also uses the sandblasting technique. He also developed new ideas for coloring through special mixtures of metal oxides and through a combination of the different techniques mentioned.

Works by Pavel Molnar can be found in the following public collections, among others:

  • Berlin, Kunstgewerbemuseum
  • Coburg, art collection of the fortress
  • Corning, NY, The Corning Museum of Glass
  • Düsseldorf, Art Museum; Frauenau, Wertheim
  • Ebeltoft / Denmark, glass museum
  • Hamburg, Museum for Arts and Crafts
  • Hanover, Kestner Museum
  • Karlsruhe, Baden State Museum
  • Tokyo, Kyoto / Japan, National Museum of Modern Art
  • Leipzig, Grassi Museum; London, Victoria & Albert Museum
  • Munich, City Museum
  • Rotterdam, Boymans-van-Beuningen Museum
  • Schleswig, Schleswig-Holstein State Museum, Gottorf Castle
  • Sapporo / Japan, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art
  • Stuttgart, Württemberg State Museum
  • Lausanne, Musée des arts decoratifs.

Exhibitions

Since 1974 in galleries and museums at home and abroad, including:

  • 1977 since then participation in the Christmas fair for artisans in the Museum of Arts and Crafts, Hamburg
  • 1977 Hamburg, Gallery "L"
Coburg, art collections of the fortress
  • 1980 Karlsruhe, Badisches Landesmuseum: Glass - Silver
Kyoto, Tokyo, National Museum of Modern Art: Contemporary Glass Europe & Japan
  • 1982 Frauenau, Wertheim, Glass Museum: retrospective exhibition
  • 1983 Lübeck, Museum am Dom: Handicrafts in Schleswig-Holstein, Bad Oldesloe, Stormarnhaus
Düsseldorf, Art Museum: New Glass in Germany
Paris, Atelier d'Amon gallery
  • 1985 Budapest, Ernst Museum: handicrafts from Hamburg
Rouen, Musée des Beaux Arts : Art du Verre
Kobe, Japan, Hyogo Prefecture Museum of Modern Art:
Handicrafts from Hamburg and Northern Germany
Sapporo, Japan, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art:
World Glass Now
  • 1986 Tokyo, Matsuya Ginza Departmentstore: European Crafts Today
  • 1987 Lathrup Village / USA, Habatat galleries
  • 1989 Worpswede, Galerie Kunsttreff
Liege, Generale dc Banque: Contemporary European Sculptures
  • 1990 Luxembourg, Danika Gallery
Moscow / CIS, Gus-Khrustalny Glass Museum
  • 1991 New York, Miller Gallery
Paris, L'Eclat du Verre gallery
Vienna, Klute Gallery
  • 1992 Metz / France, Maison de la Culture "Sculptures contemporaines
en cristal et en verre des pays du Marché Commun ", Générale e Banque, Liege, Belgium
San Francisco / USA, Composition Gallery

Bibliography (selection)

  • G. Nicola: "Combination: lamp-blown and oven glass, work by Pavel Molnar and Theodor Sellner" in "Neues Glas" 3/1984, pp. 140 f., Fig. 48, 51
  • Kimio Nishimura, Pavel Molnar: "Glass Art", Art-Sha Co. Ltd., Osaka, Japan 1987, Vol.no.11, pp. 3-11 (Japanese)
  • Jan Walgrave: "Glas van drinkbeker tot Kunstobject", Provinciaal Museum Sterckshof, Antwerp, 1990, pp. 192–193
  • Kanazawa Competition (Ed.): "The International Exhibition of Glass", Kanazawa 90, Japan, p. 84
  • Kurata Kimihiro: "Glass Fantasy, from Art Nouveau to the present day", Kyoto, Shoin Co. Ltd., fig. 212-213
  • "All about Glass", Tokyo, 1992, Shinshusha Co. Ltd.
  • "The Survey of Glass in the World," compiled by Tsuneo Yoshimizu; published by Kyuryudo Art Publishing Co. Ltd., Tokyo, 1992, pp. 57, 115; Vol.5
  • E. Fuchs-Belhamri: "Contemporary arts and crafts in Schleswig-Holstein", 1992, Boysen Verlag, Heide / Holst.
  • Rita Wildegans: "Stormarn Art Summer", 1992, Stormarn Cultural Foundation.
  • IJ Borowsky: "Artists confronting the Inconceivable", American Interfaith Institute, Philadelphia, USA, 1992

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personal data
SURNAME Molnar, Pavel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Molnár, Pavel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech glassblower
DATE OF BIRTH February 8, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Vojnice , Slovakia