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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass => Topic started by: Wuff on May 17, 2011, 09:05:21 PM
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My brother-in-law, Joachim Rohmann, passed away unexpectedly in April. To keep the memory alive I have begun to show some of his work on a web page:
Joachim Rohmann (1942-2011) (http://www.seelentags.de/JR/index.htm).
As the text is in German let me briefly explain the three types of work, and how they were done:
Spiegelbilder (http://www.seelentags.de/JR/spiegelbilder.htm) - Mirror Images: Aluminium sheets, wire meshes, silver wires, polished pieces of glass are mounted on a glass mirror, and covered with slightly frosted glass for a matt appearance.
Hinterglasbilder (http://www.seelentags.de/JR/hinterglasbilder.htm) - some sort of reverse glass painting, applying colour with a wad of cotton wool to the frosted surface, then again mounting this in-front of a mirror (coloured side inside).
Objekte (http://www.seelentags.de/JR/objekte.htm) - various objects, mostly chiselled clear crystal glass, often polished and fused, sometimes combined with other materials. Only later he also used glass coloured by himself, and slumped. My favourite is a combination of two pieces: Bridge over Troubled Water (http://www.seelentags.de/JR/bridge.htm).
Vitrinen (http://www.seelentags.de/JR/vitrinen/vitrinen.htm) finally gives some examples of his "bread and butter" work.
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That's a wonderful site and lovely tribute. And anyone of those pieces would have a home in my home - beautiful works of art.
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