{"id":22117,"date":"2015-07-02T00:01:42","date_gmt":"2015-07-02T07:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/?p=22117"},"modified":"2015-07-02T00:01:42","modified_gmt":"2015-07-02T07:01:42","slug":"cheap-thrills-at-the-glasmuseum-passau-outrageous-over-the-top-decorative-glass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/cheap-thrills-at-the-glasmuseum-passau-outrageous-over-the-top-decorative-glass\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheap Thrills at the Glasmuseum Passau — Outrageous, Over-the-Top Decorative Glass."},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Rich,<\/a>
Rich, meticulous design from Josephine Glassworks, Silesia, circa 1898-1905. Jugendstil-Art Nouveau. Photo by Barbara Newhall<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

By Barbara Falconer Newhall<\/em><\/p>\n

Spotted at\u00a0the labyrinthine Glasmuseum Passau — wonderfully\u00a0outrageous, phantasmagoric decorative glass. Gotta share it with you. Take a look. Cheap thrills.<\/p>\n

Yeah. Yeah.\u00a0I’m definitely indulging in a bit of\u00a0smug irony here. The folks who created, appreciated — and paid for — these concoctions no doubt took them quite seriously as high decorative art in very good taste. But I’m a denizen of the twenty-first century, born in the less-is-more mid-twentieth century. So if I love these things, it’s precisely because they are so outrageously over-the-top — and in some cases, gorgeous.<\/p>\n

You’re seeing these pictures because\u00a0Jon and I took in the Glasmuseum at\u00a0Passau during\u00a0a river trip last month. More about that travel adventure up the Danube and down the Rhine in the days and weeks to come.<\/p>\n

More glass at “Dale Chihuly’s Glass –Fine Art? Kitsch? Or Both?”<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0Mosaic art at “A Berkeley Spin on an Ancient Art.”<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Decorative Glass Historicism\u00a0Style<\/h4>\n
\"Historicism.<\/a>
OK. This one’s actually ugly. Way too fussy for my taste. It’s an example of late 19th century Bohemian-Bavarian Historicism<\/a>. Photo by Barbara Newhall<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Pink<\/a>
But I like this pink and white confection, also in the Historicism tradition, circa 1880-1920. Photo by Barbara Newhall<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Art Nouveau – Jugenstil Glass<\/h4>\n
\"Josephinenhuette.<\/a>
Jugendstil-Art Nouveau bowl from Josephinenhuette, Silesia, 1899-1900. Photo by Barbara Newhall<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"1860-1900.<\/a>
I wish I could tell you more about all this outrageous\u00a0glass. But my German is only so-so these days and it was hard to decipher the labels. This egg — shell? nut? — had a date of 1860-1900 and an origin of “Silesia-Bohemia-Bavaria.” Looks like Art Nouveau to me.\u00a0Photo by Barbara Newhall<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Mid-Nineteenth-Century Decorative Glass<\/h5>\n
\"A<\/a>
Mid-nineteenth-century mirror. Twenty-first-century photographer. As you can see, the rooms are small at the Glasmuseum Passau<\/a>. You go up and down stairs and around corners to discover ever more vitrines packed with the museum’s collection of 30,000 pieces from Silesia, Bavaria, Bohemia and Austria dated 1550 to 1950. Photo by Barbara Newhall<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Shown<\/a>
Mid-19th-century goblets from Josephinenhuette. Photo by Barbara Newhall<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Decorative<\/a>
Also from the mid-nineteenth century: Painted glass with chinoiserie motifs, Bohemia circa 1835-1845. I wonder, who had more fun? The artisans who cooked up these confections — or the aristocrats who ate off of them? Photo by Barbara Newhall<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\"Decorative<\/a><\/p>\n

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