Table of Contents
Foreword. Brian Clarke
History
History. Bernhard Graf
Founded in Prerevolutionary Times
You Do Not Know Germany Unless You Have Visited Munich
No Success without Diligence, Frugalness, and Thriftiness
A Studio for the Artists (since 1918)
Onset of Modernity
Karl Knappe – The New Beginning of Stained Glass
New Construction in Times of Inflation
“A Vision Like Nero’s”
In the Middle of Reconstruction
Karl Knappe and Mosaic Art
Stained Glass from the 1950s to the 1970s
German Post-War Stained Glass Becomes “World Famous”
Josef Oberberger Holding Court at the Kunstanstalt
The Fourth Generation Takes Over
The Beginning of a New Era
The Breakthrough of Float Glass Art
Innovative “Public Art” Instead of “Kunst am Bau”
Projects
An Avant-garde Studio. The Mayer’sche Hofkunstanstalt as a laboratory for new technologies
Gottfried Knapp
Projects
Artist Portrait Brian Clarke
Mayer of Munich – A View from England
Martin Harrison
Documentation
Studio, Processes and Techniques
The Studio: A Workshop Environment
Glass Painting / Leading / Gluing
Faceted Glass / Slumped and Fused Glass / Stacked Glass
Float Glass Painting
The Effects of Light and Space
The Studio for Artistic Mosaic Design
Editor’s Epilogue. Gabriel Mayer
Index
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