Exhibitions
Tiffany Glass – A Passion for Colour
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Montreal, Canada
February 11 - May 2, 2010
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Richmond, Virginia
May 28 - August 15, 2010.
This exhibition of Louis C. Tiffany’s stained glass windows, lamps and decorative glassware, was organized by the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and was shown at the Musee de Luxembourg in Paris from September 2009 to January 2010. It includes 186 objects from 45 public and private collections as well as a comprehensive catalog.
Ted Muehling Selects: Lobmeyr Glass from the Permanent Collection
Open April 23, 2010 through October 2010
The Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum
New York City
The exhibition celebrates the museum’s recent acquisition of an extraordinary collection of 162 rare glass works from J. & L. Lobmeyr of Vienna, Austria, which dates from 1835 to 2008 and spans nearly the entire history of the firm.
The exhibition will include more than 100 Lobmeyr pieces selected by designer Ted Muehling, original drawings lent by Lobmeyr, and other related works from the Museum’s collection.
J. & L. Lobmeyr was founded in 1822, and continues to produce exquisite designs of high quality, execution and style. Among the most significant works in the collection area designs from the Wiener Werkstatte and other early 20th century designers, including Josef Hoffmann, Adolf Loos, Michael Powolny, Sefan and Marianne Rath and Josef Wimmer.
Archaeological Museum of Val d’Oise
Guiry-en-Vexin, France
GLASS MEMORIES: From archaeology to contemporary art
The exhibition includes objects from antiquity to the 19th century, including some extremely rare forms from the early period. It also includes some contemporary glass art which interprets these earlier pieces. The exhibit was organized in connection with the Museum of Antiquities of the Seine-Maritime in Rouen, France. The Exhibition will be on view until December 28, 2009, and at the Musée des Antiquités in Rouen from January 15 until May 15, 2010.
Natural History Museum, Geneva, Switzerland
New Permanent Exhibition
The Natural History Museum has opened a new gallery devoted to the marine biology specimens created by Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka in the late 19th century. The father and son team created these glass pieces as lamp workers, from 1863 to 1890 and sold them to a number of universities and museums in Europe and North America so that students could use them. The glass models were much more life-like than preserved specimens of the actual invertebrate sea creatures were.
Today, these pieces are viewed as art, due to the amazing skill which went into their creation; a skill which has been lost. The Natural History Museum has 94 examples of these very fragile figures on view as a permanent exhibition.