Frauenau Glass Museum


The Frauenau Glass Museum in Frauenau in the Lower Bavarian county of Regen, previously a communal facility, has become a state-owned organisation since early 2014 called the State Museum of the History of Glass Culture run by the Free State of Bavaria. The museum curator is the art-historian, Karin Rühl.
The museum was opened on 6 May 1975 by the founder of the museum, Alfons Hannes, in the presence of numerous international glass artists, including Erwin Eisch, Harvey Littleton and Sybren Valkema, with the highly regarded special exhibition Venini-Murano.
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Donation Wolfgang Kermer

In 1982, the museum received a significant donation from the private studio glass collection of Wolfgang Kermer. A selection from this collection had already been shown in a special exhibition from 1976 to 1977 and then remained, considerably expanded, in the museum as a gift from Wolfgang Kermer. As the Bayerische Staatszeitung wrote in 2009, the Wolfgang Kermer collection is ″a cornerstone of the museum′s permanent exhibition″.
The following artists are represented in the donation:
Still ″a great friend of the glass museum″, Wolfgang Kermer donated in 2017 well over a hundred hand-blown French glasses, typical of the long-gone glassworks in the to-day regions Grand Est and Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. Although the origin and dating of the glasses, formerly mass-produced goods, today rarity, are often difficult to determine – Wolfgang Kermer described his donation ″Homage to the unknown glassblower″ – several glasses can be combined with the glass factory La Rochere.

Literature

  • Alfons Hannes : Die Sammlung Wolfgang Kermer, Glasmuseum Frauenau: Glas des 20. Jahrhunderts; 50er bis 70er Jahre. Schnell & Steiner, München, Zürich 1989.
  • Roman Eder, Alfons Hannes: Frauenau, Chronik eines Bayerwalddorfes. 2 vols. Morsak, 1999.
  • Katharina Eisch-Angus: Glas im Kontext. Konzeption und Realisierung des neuen Glasmuseums Frauenau. In: Museumsgestaltung. Qualität als Schlüssel der Besucherorientierung. Berichtsband des Oö. Museumstags 2008 in Wels. Hrsg. vom Verbund österreichischer Museen. Leonding/Austria, 2009, S. 14–25,
  • Katharina Eisch-Angus: Mit dem Glas stirbt Kultur. Europäische Transformationsprozesse im Spiegel der Glasmacherei bis zur Gegenwart. In: Heidrun Alzheimer : In Europa – Kulturelle Netzwerke lokal, regional, global. Wurzburg, 2012, pp. 37–57,
  • Michael Schmidt: Es war Vieles möglich! Alfons Hannes . Riedlhütte, 2011.
  • Sven Bauer: Glasmuseum Frauenau – Staatliches Museum zur Geschichte der Glaskultur. Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg im Allgäu, 2017.