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.

Donation Wolfgang Kermer

In 1982, the museum received a significant donation from the private studio glass collection of Wolfgang Kermer.
The following artists are represented in the donation:
In 2017, Wolfgang Kermer donated 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.

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