Theodor G. Sellner

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Theodor G. Sellner (born January 5, 1947 in Zwiesel , Bavarian Forest ) is a German glass artist .

Theodor G. Sellner is one of the co-founders of the studio glass movement . In 1974 he created his first artistically designed glass objects , which he made “in front of the lamp ”, i.e. over an open flame. In the 1980s he began to combine this technique with work on the furnace and received a patent for it in 1988 .

biography

Sellner completed his training from 1961 to 1964 at the technical school for glass in Zwiesel . In 1974 he had the first exhibition of his exhibits. In 1978 and 1979 he studied in Murano with Aldo Nason, in Mount Vernon (Ohio) with Robert Coleman, in Corning (New York) at the local Corning Glass Center and in Sandefjord with Jan Erikson. The first international exhibitions in Annecy and Corning also take place at this time .

Teaching

Since 1990 he has been a visiting lecturer at the Institute for Materials Science III at the University of Erlangen under the direction of Heribert Oel . Since 1993 he has held another position as a guest lecturer at the Georg-Simon-Ohm Technical School in Nuremberg . Sellner was a course instructor at Bildwerk Frauenau and gave lectures in Lviv at the Academy of Fine Arts, in Alma-Ata on behalf of the Ministry of Education there, and in Travemünde as part of the 55th Glass Technology Conference.

In addition, there was participation in international symposia such as the World Crafts Council in Vienna, in Corning, in Lviv, in Gus Krustalny (Russia) and in Nový Bor (Czech Republic).

Awards

Sellner has been honored with several awards and prizes:

  • Bavarian State Prize , gold medal
  • Coburg Glass Prize, honorary diploma
  • Bayerwald Glass Prize, honorary diploma
  • Glass street price
  • Great East Bavarian Culture Prize from e.on Bayern AG
  • Honorary award from the materials engineering department at the Georg-Simon-Ohm University of Applied Sciences in Nuremberg

patent

Sellner is the owner of patent no. 3316149 with the designation Object made of glass and the process for its manufacture .

Working in public collections

  • Coburg, art collection of the Veste Coburg ,
  • Corning, USA, Corning Museum of Glass ,
  • Darmstadt, Hessian State Museum ,
  • Düsseldorf, Art Museum,
  • Ebeltoft, Denmark, glass museum,
  • Erlangen, University,
  • Nuremberg, University of Applied Sciences,
  • Glass Museum Frauenau ,
  • Herne, Emschertal Museum ,
  • Lausanne, Musee des Arts Decoratifs,
  • Mexico City, German Embassy,
  • Regensburg, Museum of the City of Regensburg,
  • Rheinbach Glass Museum,
  • Rotterdam, Boymans van Beuningen Museum,
  • Wertheim, Glass Museum,
  • Vienna, Lobmayr Collection,
  • Paris, Musee des Arts Decoratifs,
  • Wagga-Wagga, Australia, Wagga-Wagga City Art Gallery,
  • Immenhausen, Glass Museum,
  • Gus Krustalny, Russia, glass museum,
  • Lviv, Ukraine, National Museum of Ukraine,
  • Stuttgart, Württemberg State Museum ,
  • Baierbrunn, Drom Flacon Museum,
  • Madrid, Museo de Arte en Vitrio de Alcorcon, Castillo de San Jose de Valderas,
  • Herding, Alter Hof, Glass Museum Ernesting Foundation,
  • Hengersberg, East Bavarian Art Collection,
  • Novy Bor, Czech Republic, glass museum,
  • Theuern, industrial museum.

Exhibitions

Sellner has numerous solo exhibitions, including in

  • Kanazawa, Japan, international exhibition of glass ,
  • Frauenau , Glass Museum Friedenswächter ,
  • Regensburg, the city's museum,
  • Bonn, House of the Bavarian State Representation,
  • Vienna, Headquarters Lobmayr,
  • Coburg, Veste, Coburg Glass Prize Honorary Diploma,
  • Corning, USA, The Corning Museum of Glass , New Glass ,
  • Toledo, USA, The Toledo Museum of Art , New Glass ,
  • Annecy , Musee Chateau d'Annecy,
  • Washington, USA, Renwick Gallery of the National Coll of Fine Arts,
  • New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art New Glass ,
  • Essen Glass Gallery, Erwin Eisch - Theodor G. Sellner ,
  • San Francisco, International Airport,
  • London, Victoria and Albert Museum ,
  • Tokyo, Seibu Museum,
  • Lausanne, Bellefontaine Gallery,
  • Chicago, Chicago Art Fair, Bergmann Gallery,
  • Paris, Park floral de la Paris, le verre grandeur nature ,
  • Montreux, La Maison Visinant, Galerie du Port,
  • Moscow, Art Glass Exhibition,
  • Vienna, Gallery Klute, waymarks ,
  • Frankfurt, art fair, Galerie Gottschalk-Betz,
  • New York, Miller Gallerys,
  • Venice, Zitelle Center Culturale, Transparenze d'Àrte a Venezia .

literature

  • Gabriele Bahmann: Theodor G. Sellner. A work analysis. With a foreword by Veit Loers. Texts traditionally by Anne Coudrier and Jérôme Duval-Hamel. Morsak, Grafenau 1987; ISBN 3-87553-299-6 (text in German and French)
  • Theodor G. Sellner / Kurt Hofner: Glass. New colored transparency. Collection 2000. Ed .: Mining and Industry Museum East Bavaria; Kümmersbruck 2000 (series of publications by the Mining and Industry Museum in East Bavaria, vol. 39); ISBN 3-925690-42-5

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personal data
SURNAME Sellner, Theodor G.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German glass artist
DATE OF BIRTH January 5, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Zwiesel , Bavarian Forest