An extensive collection of small stemless brandy glasses from
several now defunct Slovak glassworks are among the most precious
acquisitions of the Glass Collection. The collection of small stemless
brandy glasses produced at the Lednické Rovne Glassworks, predominantly
from the interwar period, is particularly unique.
The
collection is complemented by later implementations of drinking glass
collections (also mostly from the Lednické Rovne Glassworks) designed by
renowned artists - glass designers, Karolo Hološko, Jaroslav Taraba and
Dagmar Kudrová and drinking glass sets designed in the 1980s by glass
artists Askold Žáček, Štěpán Palo, Ladislav Pagáč, Juraj Kolembus and
Patrik Illo. Works with a suppressed applied function - decorative glass
objects along with a collection of beverage glasses, dessert sets,
decorative vases, bowls and plates also constituted the subject of
collecting interest.
A special part of this collection
focused on glass plastic art documents the development of this
significant period in glass art from the middle of the 1960s until the
present. Askold Žáčko, Juraj Gavula, Pavol Tomečko, Jozef Tomečko, Eva
Fišerová, Marián Mudroch, Juraj Opršal, Ján Mýtny, Zora Palová,
graduates of the Department of Glass in Architecture of the Bratislava Glass School, led by Václav Cigler, are predominantly represented in
this collection. Their works constitute a representative sample of the
artist's concepts and possibilities which the "beautiful material" of
optic glass provided.
The work of Ľubomír Blecha comprises a unique collection. He was the only one in Slovakia to creatively develop the technique of warm glass matter processing and represents a counterbalance to the plastic work of other Slovak glass artists working predominantly with the technique of optic glass cutting.
