THE GLASS OF THE ARCHITECTS. VIENNA 1900-1937 18 APRIL

ISLAND OF SAN GIORGIO MAGGIORE \| VENICE, ITALY ORGANIZED BY THE MAK, VIENNA AND LE STANZE DEL VETRO

With over 300 works primarily drawn from the collection of the MAK – Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art in Vienna, *The Glass of the Architects. Vienna 1900-1937* will celebrate the birth of modern Austrian glassmaking in the period between the end of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the beginning of the first Austrian Republic.
The exhibition will feature glass works by the major figures of Viennese Modernism: Josef Hoffmann, Koloman Moser, Joseph Maria Olbrich, Leopold Bauer, Otto Prutscher, Oskar Strnad, Oswald Haerdtl and Adolf Loos.
*The Glass of the Architects. Vienna 1900-1937* is the second exhibition organized by LE STANZE DEL VETRO to focus on international developments in glassmaking in the 20th century, following *Glass from Finland in the Bischofberger Collection*.
LE STANZE DEL VETRO is a long-term joint initiative of Fondazione Giorgio Cini and Pentagram Stiftung devoted to studying the art of glassmaking in the 20th and 21st centuries.

THE GLASS OF THE ARCHITECTS. VIENNA 1900-1937 18 APRIL – 31 JULY 2016