EXHIBITION

GRAL GLASS. 1930-1981. AN EXAMPLE OF GERMAN DESIGN

01.07.2011 - 18.09.2011
Pinakothek der Moderne

Die neue Sammlung - The International Design Museum Munich

The Gral Glashütte (Gral glassworks) were one of the leading German manufacturers at the time when 'Made in Germany' was at its heyday. For half a century, Gral glass was synonymous with the notion of top glass design - from the Weimer Republic until the beginning of the 1980s. While the workshops focussed on cold finishing techniques such as cutting and engraving in the 1930s, the Swabian company moved towards becoming a glassworks with its own image and fastidious design after the war, and took on external industrial designers, artists and international glass specialists, whose unique styles perceptibly left their mark on the items produced - sets of glasses, functional and ornamental vessels, as well as unique pieces.
A publication accompagnying the exhibition, edited by Helmut Ricke and Wilfried van Loyen, with contributions by Xenia Riemann, Die Neue Sammlung - The International Design Museum Munich, will be published in German.
An exhibition of Die Neue Sammlung - The International Design Museum Munich in cooperation with Glasmuseum Hentrich in Museum Kunstpalast Düsseldorf.

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