LIGHT GLASS-11 NR-KR-183 Lauscha VINTAGE FLOWER VASE

A beautiful flower vase made from Lauscha blown glass.

Unique as an objet d'art, its delicate appearance is one of a kind.

It possesses both ephemerality and strength.

Manufactured between the 1960s and 1970s.

Country of Origin: Germany

Material: Glass

Height...26cm
Width...8cm
Caliber...2cm

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This is a beautiful flower vase made of yellow glass from Lauscha Glass in East Germany.

Its distinctive shape, like a crane-neck vase attached to the stem of a wine glass, and its sophisticated design are impressive.

Lauscha is a small glass town in the Thuringian Forest in eastern Germany, where people have lived by making glass for over 400 years.

In East Germany, industry had its own system, with state-owned enterprises called VEBs (Volkseigener Betrieb) established throughout the country, and different industries existed in each region.

This product is a thin, delicate glass vase created by a glassblower in Lauscha, Thuringia, a region where the glass industry flourished, between the 1960s and 1970s. In its streamlined, futuristic form, one can catch a glimpse of the Space Age design that was popular at the time.

Also, although it cannot be definitively determined due to the lack of a mark, based on its style, it is possibly a work by the renowned glass artist Albin Schaedel or from his workshop.

Albin Schaedel

Albin Schaedel

Schaedel was an innovative Thuringian glass artist of international renown.

He came from a family with a 200-year tradition of glassmaking. His father was a lampwork artist. He worked as a glass bead artist in his father's workshop, began his apprenticeship in 1924, and became a journeyman under Edmond Müller in Neuhaus from 1927. From 1934, Schaedel worked as an independent artistic glassblower. From 1934 to 1938, he was associated with Professor Karl Staudinger, a painter and graphic artist, in Sonneberg. In 1937, he participated for the first time in the arts and crafts fair in Leipzig.

From 1940 to 1945, Schaedel was a soldier. In 1949, he was awarded the quality seal for arts and crafts. In 1952, he passed his master's examination and was recognized by the master glassblower and visual artist association's examination board. In 1954, Schaedel moved his apartment and workshop to Arnstadt, "his second home." In 1980, he had to stop working in front of the glass flame due to health reasons.

Schaedel was a very experimental glass artist. He refined and developed assembly techniques ("skull technique") into sophisticated art, such as the design of vessels blown in front of the lamp. He was one of the most productive and influential glass artists of his time.

He participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions both nationally and internationally. Among other things, he participated in the five German art exhibitions and the East German art exhibitions held in Dresden from 1958 to 1978.

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※As this is a vintage item, there may be small scratches and dirt. Please purchase after understanding this in advance.

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