Erwin Eisch: "The Shoe" - German/German

"The Shoe" comes from Germany's probably world's best-known glass artist: Erwin Eisch from Frauenau in the Bavarian Forest. Life and glass are inseparably linked with nature in the Eisch family. Erwin Eisch's glass art is poetic, picturesque, sculptural and bizarre. He fired the imagination of glass artists and glass painters and led the successful series "Poetry in Glass" to worldwide success.

As early as 1964, Eisch anticipated the "provocative revolution" of 1968 in art: "Painting is dead, art is politics."

Together with the American glass artist Harvey Littleton, Eisch led the glass craft in Germany away from the glassworks and into the universities and art academies with the studio glass movement. His bosom beer mugs as well as his Picasso, Helmut Kohl and Buddha busts are examples of this. The silver-plated "Shoe" from 1975 is a typical representative of Pop Art and one of the most important exhibits of International Studio Glass Art in the Wertheim Glass Museum.

 

Erwin Eisch: "The shoe" - English

"The Shoe," is by one of Germany's most world-famous glass artists: Erwin Eisch from Frauenau in the Bavarian Forest. Life and glass are inseparably connected to nature for the Eisch family and Erwin Eisch's glass art is poetic, picturesque, three-dimensional and bizarre. With it he inspired the imagination of the glass artist and glass painter and guided the successful "Poesie in Glass,' series to worldwide fame.

Eisch pre-empted the "provocative revolution," of 1968 in art - "Painting is dead, art is politics," in 1964.

And with the studio glass movement, together with the American glass artist Harvey Littleton, he guided glass craftsmanship away from Germany's glass foundries and into the universities and art academies. His BUSENBIERKRUEGE beer pitchers, Picasso, Helmut Kohl and Buddha-Busts are examples of this. The silver plated "shoe" from 1975 is a typical representation of pop art and one of the most prominent exhibits of international studio glass art in Wertheim Museum of Glass.