The Glass of the Architects: Vienna 1900-1937 : Franz, Rainald by Pasquale Gagliardi

The Glass of the Architects Vienna is the second exhibition dedicated to international developments in th century glass, after Glass from Finland in the Bischofberger Collection The exhibitions are part of the Le Stanze del Vetro project jointly run by the Fondazione Giorgio Cini and Pentagram Stiftung for the purpose of studying and promoting the art of glassmaking in the th and st centuriesPublished on the occasion of the exhibition in Venice, this volume presents over works from the collection of the MAK Austrian Museum of Applied Arts Contemporary Art in Vienna and private collections It focuses for the first time on the history of glassmaking in Austria from to , a period spanning the last decades of the Austro Hungarian Empire and the First RepublicIn the early th century a group of young architects, designers, and fine arts and architecture students developed a special interest in the process of glassmaking Many of them were to win fame as leading figures in Viennese Modernism, such as Josef Hoffmann , Koloman Moser , Joseph Maria Olbrich , Leopold Bauer , Otto Prutscher , Oskar Strnad , Oswald Haerdtl and Adolf Loos They paved the way to the first pioneering developments in th century glass production as they worked with the furnaces in order to gain a thorough understanding of the material The collaboration between architects and designers and the introduction of their innovations to production created the style of Viennese Glass, found in new projects such as the Wiener Werkst tte or the Austrian Werkbund