Over 300 glass works by the main architects of the Viennese Modernism on display in Venice at Fondazione Giorgio Cini
From April 18th to July 31th, the exhibition
The Glass of the Architects. Vienna 1900-1937, curated by
Rainald Franz and organized by
LE STANZE DEL VETRO, will run on the
Island of San Giorgio Maggiore, in Venice, with
over 300 glass masterpieces of Modernism, mostly from the collection of the MAK – Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art in Vienna. Some names of the protagonists:
Josef Hoffmann, Koloman Moser, Joseph Maria Olbrich, Leopold Bauer, Otto Prutscher, Oskar Strnad, Oswald Haerdtland Adolf Loos.
The exhibition will focus on the birth of
the art of modern glassmaking in Austria between 1900 and 1937 - a very lively period spanning the years between the last decades of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the First Republic - and on how much young architects had influence on the development of glass art in Vienna.
At the beginning of the twentieth century, a decisive impulse and inspiration was brought to architecture and applied arts to stimulate creativity, research and innovative technologies in central Europe:
a group of young architects and designers, scholars of Otto Wagner, chose glass as the Modernist material to work with.
The aim of the exhibition, with a
set-up which includes drawings and photos, is to show some key aspects of this period, including the Viennese Secession’s experimentation with new lines of research and styles in the arts and architecture, and the relationship between design, craftsmanship and production.
Opening: 10.00 am – 7.00 pm, closed on Wednesdays
Free entry
How to reach the Island of San Giorgio Maggiore:
Actv line 2 departing from San Zaccaria, 3 minutes; from Ferrovia or Piazzale Roma, 45 minutes
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