Modern glass — Kunst-Auktion
Carlo Scarpa was an Italian architect, influenced by the materials, landscape and the history of Venetian culture, and by Japan. Scarpa translated his interests in history, regionalism, invention, and the techniques of the artist and craftsman into ingenious glass and furniture design.
Alejandro Ruiz is an Argentine artist, industrial designer, interior architect and educator.
Alejandro Ruiz graduated in industrial design at UNLP in La Plata, Argentina. He has taught classes at the Domus Academy, where he received his Master's degree, and at the Faculty of Architecture of the Technical University of Milan. At Studioruiz, a company he founded himself, he has worked with various internationally renowned brands.
Alejandro Ruiz has participated in many interior design and architecture events and exhibitions in Italy, France, Finland, Germany, Japan, the Netherlands, England and the USA. In 1994, together with Anna Lombardi, he created the Lessdesign brand, whose aim was to develop industrial projects. The designer has been involved in packaging, interior, store, event and exhibition design at Studioruiz.
Elena Graure-Manta is a Romanian glass and porcelain artist based in Germany.
Elena studied under the glass and porcelain artist Clausenburg (Romania), at the Romanian Academy of Fine Arts, and worked as a designer for the Avrig glass manufactory. In her work, she takes objects from everyday life as a basis and, endowing them with her imagination, creates glass works of art from them. In this way Elena Graure-Manta created a series of glass shoes and handbags, and later glass "luxury cars". Graure-Manta's glass objects are very colorful and contain many details, making each piece unique and interesting.
From 1995-2005, the artist owned the Vitrumex glass manufactory in Romania and works in her own studio in Erftstadt, Germany, near Cologne.
Hanne Dreutler is a German glass artist and designer based in Sweden.
Hanne Dreutler studied at the Graduate School of Art in Basel, Switzerland, after which she moved to Stockholm and studied at the College of Art. From 1966 to 1977, she worked as an independent silversmith in Stockholm and at the glassworks of Moleros and Flugsfors.
In the early 1970s Hanne Dreutler met Arthur Zirnsack (1944) in Kosta Boda, where they worked under the supervision of Vike Lindstrand. Dreutler and Zirnsack married, and in 1977 the couple opened their own glassworks, Studio Ahus, in Ahus in southeastern Sweden, continuing the renowned tradition of Scandinavian glassmaking. After Hanne Dreutler's death, Studio Ahus continues to operate under the management of their son Martin Cirnzak and Lennart Nissmark.
Domenico Paladino is an Italian sculptor, painter and printmaker. He is a leading name in the Transvanguardia artistic movement and one of the many European artists to revive Expressionism in the 1980s.
