Glass

The many facets of the light-refracting treasures are impressively reflected in the MAKK's rich glass collection: whether opaque or transparent, whether colorless, iridescent or colorful, whether with thread overlays, knobs or inclusions of silver and gold - the entire spectrum of this highly valued material is represented. The historical framework is broad and begins with glass from antiquity and early Islam. This is followed by pieces from Persia and Spain, medieval and modern bottles, cups, goblets and Romans with knobs made of green glass, as well as splendid shaped and decorative glass from the 16th to 18th centuries.

Filigree works of art made of net and thread glass, clear glass with white combed thread, ice glass, millefiori and aventurine glass as stemware or winged glass, footed bowls or lidded goblets come from Venice. There are also jugs, tankards and goblets with colored enamel painting from the 16th to 18th centuries from Bohemia, Saxony and Franconia. The polished, cut, diamond-carved and stippled glasses of the 17th and 18th centuries and the magnificent so-called intermediate gold glasses of the 18th century complete the picture of Baroque glass art.

European glassmaking of the 19th and 20th centuries is evidenced by goblets with transparent paintings by Gottlob Samuel Mohn and Anton Kothgasser from the early 19th century, the Art Nouveau glasses by Emile Gallé or the Daum brothers from Nancy in France and chandelier glasses by Johann Loetz Witwe from Klostermühle in Bohemia. The 20th and 21st centuries are richly represented with studio glasses by renowned artists such as Dale Chihuly, Erwin Eisch, Harvey K. Littleton, Paolo Martinuzzi, Hanns Model or Klaus and Isgard Moje, while early glass designs by Peter Behrens for the Ehrenfelder Glashütte in Cologne anticipate the diversity of today's glass product design in the early 20th century.