Exhibition

Glasmuseum Hentrich
Grünes Gewölbe in der Tonhalle

After the Second World War, the glassworks founded by Ludwig Breit at Wiesenthal (Lučany nad Nisou) in Northern Bohemia found a new home at Schwäbisch-Gmünd in South-Western Germany. First under the direction of Ludwig Breit, then, from the 1960s on, that of his son, Klaus, the factory developed into one of the leading glassworks of West Germany, with a pronounced design profile of its own. Klaus Breit was the guiding mind behind both the enterprise’s range and most of the designs realised. He united profound expertise as a chemist and glass technologist with conspicuous artistic talent.
Shortly before his death in 2004, Mr Breit bequeathed his private collection of prototypes to Glasmuseum Hentrich, with all the important models used at the Wiesenthal works between 1958 and 1980; to this he added the works archive and the firm’s complete series of production catalogues.
The exhibition displays the greater part of this collection along with the precise information that the Archive has on the individual models.