Glass of the Avant-Garde From Vienna Secession To Bauhaus

By Torsten Brohan and Martin Eidelbwerg

Photography by Anjela Brohan

The Torsten Brohan Collection, acquired in toto by the Museo Nacional de Artes Decorativas, Madrid, in 1999, contains some of the finest examples of early modern glass in the world. This beautifully illustrated volume documents more than 200 objects from Brohan's comprehensive collection of Austrian, Bohemian and German glass.

The collective output of the Middle European centers of glass production demonstrates a thoroughly modern approach to the craft. While most other histories of modernism focus on the primacy of pure form, Glass of the Avant-Garde chronicles the use of ornament, in a wide variety of styles and techniques, by early twentieth-century designers.

Published by Prestel Verlag 2001 in association with Exhibitions International New York and Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution

Softcover / 192 pages / 9.5" X 12"