{"id":22585,"date":"2024-03-27T22:53:55","date_gmt":"2024-03-27T21:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.die-neue-sammlung.de\/ausstellung\/die-farbe-von-glas\/"},"modified":"2025-07-03T11:26:48","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T09:26:48","slug":"die-farbe-von-glas","status":"publish","type":"exhibition","link":"https:\/\/www.die-neue-sammlung.de\/er\/ausstellung\/die-farbe-von-glas\/","title":{"rendered":"The Color of Glass"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Color of Glass<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n
Highlights of Die Neue Sammlung in its diversity and colorful splendor <\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n
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Installation view \u201cThe Color of Glass\u201d, Die Neue Sammlung \u2013 The Design Museum<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
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About the Exhibition<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n
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Glass is<\/strong> very important<\/strong> for all of us.
But we rarely think about this material.
We are so used to glass
because it is everywhere in our daily lives.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n

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Glass is a material that you can use<\/strong> for many different things.
Glass can also be a vessel<\/strong>,
for example a drinking glass.

Making glass <\/strong>is very complicated<\/strong>.
You must know a lot about the materials you need.
The most important material to make glass is quartz sand.
To make coloured glass, you add metals.
For example: iron for green glass or copper for red glass.

To make glass, you heat<\/strong> the materials
to a very high temperature<\/strong>.
The materials then melt together into a liquid.
When the liquid cools down,
it becomes solid.

There are different ways to shape<\/strong> the glass.
For example:
\u2022\tBlow the liquid glass into a shape
\u2022\tPress the liquid glass into a shape
\u2022\tForm the liquid glass with the help of tools
For example with tweezers, wooden spoons or shears.
Shears look like scissors.

After the glass is finished, you can make it even more special<\/strong>.
This is called refinement<\/strong>.
For example:
\u2022\tBy painting the glass with special colours
\u2022\tBy engraving
Engraving means cutting or scratching something into the glass.
\u2022\tBy grinding with stone discs
\u2022\tBy etching with an acid
This removes the outer layer of glass.

In this new exhibition, Die Neue Sammlung shows
very special glass objects<\/strong>:
\u2022\tGlasses for everyday use that factories make in large numbers
\u2022\tGlass objects by artists
\u2022\tGlass objects for buildings

The exhibition shows<\/strong>:
\u2022\thow interesting coloured glass and colourless glass can be
\u2022\tthe skills that glass makers have
\u2022\tthe many different shapes that glass can have
\u2022\twhat you can use glass for

The design studio OHA<\/a><\/strong> in Munich
designed the room for the glass exhibition.
OHA combines design, art and artisan skills.

The exhibition also shows:
Die Neue Sammlung <\/strong>brings together different topics.
And it shows art from all over the world<\/strong>.

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