Years Lived with Glass - Georg H. Taupe

Glass is a mysterious material. Heat, fragility, and hardness create the mystique of glass. At once beautiful and unruly, fascinating and idiosyncratic. Difficult to work with – the poetry of the unknown! Only those who delve into these secrets can create works of art of timeless beauty.

Georg H. Taupe was born in Villach in 1957. Since 1990, he has intensively studied various glass processing methods. For him, glass was never a material degraded to a purely functional object. He understands it as both an aesthetic and functional material. Glass is eternally fluid, a material that can be shaped infinitely.

He familiarized himself with glass in order to be able to work with it. He primarily uses the furnace melting technique – a processing technique that is very old and was rediscovered about 70 years ago – known as fusing.

This type of glass processing creates glass objects that continually emanate the fascinating magic of glass and thus exude their own charm!

"Fusing is a processing technique in which differently colored glasses or glass plates are created through the controlled melting of glass in a kiln. In this way, glass is melted in a special kiln and transformed into unique objects. I then process and shape the resulting, attractively designed glass plates into everyday objects, collages, pictures, and other appealing glass creations. The result is glass illusions! Glass objects in the form of pictures, mirrors, bowls, and pieces of furniture. Objects for home decoration that emanate the fascinating magic of glass and thus exude their own charm!"

Georg H. Taupe

Exhibitions

1990 Participation in the Glass Symposium in Bärnbach

1990 Study visit with Frank van den Ham (NL)

1991 Joint exhibition with H. Schreiber and H. Rinofner, "Light, Glass, Nature"

1992 Workshop with Tessa Clegg (GB) in Zurich

1993 Exhibition in Villach, "Reveries and Illusions"

1994 Various small exhibitions in Villach and Klagenfurt

1994 Founding and opening of the Museum for Contemporary Puppet Art

1995 Solo exhibition at the BKS am Lug Eck in Vienna

1996 Klute Glass Gallery in Vienna

1996 Joint exhibition "Christmas Dreams"

1997 Art exhibition at Castello di Monte Albano (Italy)

1997 Useful Art in Klagenfurt, "The Glass Table"

1998 IHM Munich, "Living with Glass"

1998 Aspecta Villach, "Illusions"

1998 Villach "How does the blacksmith make glass?"

Since 1995, exhibitions in the vaulted gallery at the Doll Museum in Villach

Since 2012, exhibitions in the rooms of the MUSEUM for Contemporary Doll Art – ARTlandya in Icod de los Vinos, Tenerife

2024, participation in the New York Artexpo Contest, contest finalist

2024, Finalist Award, Circle Arts Foundation

2025, Masterful Mind Award, Circle Arts Foundation