IT´S COLOURED LIGHT
28Pages

IT´S COLOURED LIGHT

Working with colored glass is like painting with the sun itself. Johan Thorn Prikker, Dutch artist

LambertsGlas ® is glass with a soul. We are the only manufacturer in Germany to still make our sheet glass using traditional methods. Mouth-blown glass is processed into flat sheets through a complex process. Glass with colorful patterns, streaky glass or overlay glass, is made by hand. With approximately 70 employees, we produce LambertsGlas ® at our plant in Waldsassen by hand in a THE PRODUCTION OF GLASS: TRADITION IN OUR HEART careful and complex process. The effort is worth it, and the result…. unique glass that holds small air bubbles and displays an irregular surface forming the...

MANUFACTURING AND THE MODERN ERA ndcraft pure ha Quartz sand, soda and limestone constitute the This mixture is placed in the furnace and smelted for 14 hours at 1450 degrees Celsius varies depending on the type of glass. According The beginner turns the blowpipe in the furnace to gather the liquid glass. basic mixture. The ratio of the three components to the required color, the various metal oxides and prepared for the most important processing step, the glassblowing.

THE ART OF MAKING GLASS IS EXCITING FROM START TO FINISH Mouth-blown sheet glass has a very special flair, an original brilliance, a special structure and transparency, luminescent colors, in short its very own individuality. It can only be manufactured using the traditional method of glassmaking. We stand by this mature and proven tradition. Some things are simply so good that any changes would rob their soul. In various wooden molds, the glass is given the The master glassmaker blows the bubble up same time. After cooling, the cylinder is cut open The glass has now passed through many...

Table cathedral glass Moon discs Restoration glass Crown glass

Clear glass with a typical LambertsGlas ® structure Flashed glass, shaded THE VARIETY BOUNDLESS FREEDOM LambertsGlas ® stands for high brilliance, a special luminescence, a modest but unique structure, as well as high quality and excellent cuttability. We stock a comprehensive standard program and produce more than 5000 different colors upon customer wishes. The types of glass we manufacture include: • Clear and tinted sheet glass (mouth-blown) • Flashed glass (mouth-blown) • Restoration glass for heritage protection (restauro ® series, mouth-blown) • Utility glass with UV and IR protection...

SPECIAL EXCLUSIVITY As an architect you sometimes think you can solve everything yourself – but it was really an excellent cooperation. Our idea was in very good hands and it turned out just as we wanted. C.F. Møller Architects BIOMEDICUM STOCKHOLM

BIOMEDICUM STOCKHOLM EXCLUSIVE DESIGN WITH MOUTH-BLOWN GLASS Glashuette Lamberts was commissioned to manufacture a special type of glass for the construction of the Karolinkska Institute’s new laboratory building of the Akademiska Hus. For the “glass-light wall”, intended to be not only architecturally beautiful but also functional, an elaborate overlay glass with marbled shading was manufactured. To complete the four facades, 1914 panels of LambertsGlas ® were provided as laminated glass in the format of 550 x 885 mm and mounted by means of a clever fastener and lighting system. Client:...

NEW LIFE TO HISTORIC STRUCTURES ... timeless Medieval cathedrals created interior light spaces where the souls of the faithful were to open up to the pictorial contents of the leaded windows. My intention is to translate the iconography into a new abstract language. The language of the colors of the cathedral is to be taken up, creating a symbiosis between the old and new. This is where I also see the great interest in the constant artistic dialogue with (the) red, (the) yellow, (the) blue and (the) white. Color determines the quality, the weight and the scale. It not only has a color value...

NOTRE-DAME DE REIMS CATHEDRAL SACRAL GLASS ART MASTERFULLY DESIGNED The three glass windows at the cathedral in Reims, France, designed by the Dusseldorf artist Imi Knoebel, were inaugurated ceremoniously. High-profile guests included the then Federal Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier and his French colleague Laurent Fabius. The three Knoebel windows are situated in the Jeanne d’Arc chapel of the cathedral. They consist of mouth-blown LambertsGlas ® and depict 27 colors in an abstract composition of ever-changing shapes. The individual panes were cut by hand and then composed into an...

TIMELESS DIALOG We are analog beings in a digitizing world and we need the sensory, the unique, as a complementary part of being. Conveying this lastingly is also an artistic necessity. Colors and colored light in glass can open up the sensually perceptible of the things of the world and transcend the question of the value of being into the imperceptible. Karl-Martin Hartmann KARL-MARTIN HARTMANN

ST. NICOLAI CHURCH KALKAR COLORED GLAZING – ART TOWARDS THE SKY Clear images, such as depictions of saints, are sought in vain when looking at the big windows of the Catholic St. Nicolai Church in Kalkar. After more than 22 years, this glazing project has now reached completion. The Wiesbaden biologist and artist Karl-Martin Hartmann redesigned the hitherto unadorned church windows. As motifs, apart from his own artistic forms, he used images and graphic representations from nuclear physics and astrophysics, including Feynman graphs, depictions of three-jet events and deep sky images...

I have been using Lambert’s glass for over forty years and in five continents. Lambert’s produce the most beautiful glass in the world, the most varied in range and the most artistically sympathetic to the poetry of the medium. Brian Clarke E.ON-building, Kassel BRIAN CLARKE Artist and architect Brian Clarke © Mary McCartn

BRIAN CLARKE Oldham – The Spindles SENSATIONAL SYMBIOSIS OF ART AND ARCHITECTURE Brian Clarke was born in 1953 in Oldham, Lancashire and today is one of the most famous glass artists in the world. As a life-long advocate of the integration of art and architecture, Clarke’s dedication to a total work of art has developed into a Renaissance involvement with various media. His architectural cooperations regarding worldly and sacral spaces comprise work with Zaha Hadid, Norman Foster, Arata Isozaki, Oscar Niemeyer, IM Pei, Future Systems and other leading personalities in modern and...