GABRIELE KüSTNER
Born on February 21, 1958

EDUCATION
1985 Scholarship, Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, WA
1984-85 Assistantship with David Huchthausen, Appalachian Center for Crafts, Smithville, TN
1981-84 State Polytechnics of Glass, Hadamar, Germany

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2001
Galerie Mariska Dirkx, Roermond, Holland
1999
"Glass Mosaic Plates, William Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA
Galerie Heidi Schneider, Horgen, Switzerland
Galleria Marina Barovier, Venice, Italy
1998
Galerie Broft, Velp, Netherlands
Kleine Schloss-Galerie, Weiher, Germany
"Vier Mal Glas," Stadtisches Museum, Göttingen, Germany
"Venezia Aperto Vetro," Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, Italy
1997
Galerie Grande Fontain, Sion, Switzeriand
"25th Internationai Invitational," Habatat Gallery, Pontiac, Ml
Galerie Heidi Schneider, Horgen, Switzerland
The Glass Gallery, Bethesda, MD
Contemporary Art Center, Utrecht, Netherlands
"Triennale des Norddeutschen Kunsthandwerks" Schleswig, Schleswig
Holsteinisches Landesmuseum and Schloss Gustrow, Germany
1996
Johann Michael-Maucher Wettbewerb, Schwabisch-Gmund, Germany
"Schalen," Kunstlerhaus, Göttingen, Germany
"Austeilung zum 25 - jahrigen Bestehen" Galerie L, Hamburg, Germany
1995
"Meister-Schuler-Meister: Lehrer stellen sich mit ihren Schulern vor," Internationale Messe Ambiente: Sonderausstellung, Frankfurt, Germany
Galerie Charlotte Hennig, Darmstadt, Germany
Galerie Heidi Schneider, Horgen, Switzerland
Galerie Brigitte Kurzendörffer, Pilsach, Germany
"14 Femmes à Nonfoux," Artistes verriers Européennes, Nonfoux, Switzerland
Galerie L, Hamburg, Germany Niedersaechsische Landesvertretung, Bonn, Germany
"Opposing Visions: Aids Under Glass," Belvetro Glass Gallery, Miami, FL
1994
"Triennale des Norddeutschen Kunsthandwerks," Schleswig, Schleswig
Holsteinisches Landesmuseum and Schloss Gustrow, Germany
"6 Triennale 1994 -95 Zeilgenössisches Deutsches Kunsthandwerk,
" Grassi Museum, Leipzig, Germany and
Museum fuer Kunsthandwerk, Frankfurt, Germany
Galerie Vetro, Frankfurt, Germany
Galerie fur angewandte Kunst, Wedemark, Germany
"Glass and Alchemy," WCC-Ausstellung, Bogota, Columbia
Rosenthal Studio Haus, Hamburg, Germany
1993
Galerie Brigitte Kunzendöfffer, Pilsach, Germany
Galerie Monica Borgward, Bremen, Germany
"Glass Now'93," Hamamatsu, Japan
Galerie Glaswerk, Berlin, Germany

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Ebeltoft Glamuseum, Ebeltoft, Denmark
Göttingen Stadtisches Museum, Göttingen, Germany
Hamburg Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe, Germany
Immenhausen Glasmuseum, Germany
Museum der Staatlichen Glasfachschule, Hadamar, Germany
Prague Museum for Decorative Arts, Prague, Czechoslovakia
Schleswig ,Schieswig Holsteinisches Landesmuseum SchloGottorf, Germany
Schwabisch-Gmund, Museum fur Natur-und Stadtkultur, Germany
Staatliche Kunstsammlung Dresden, Museum fur Kunsthanwerk, Schloss Pillnitz, Dresden, Germany
Wertheim,Glasmuseum, Germany

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
1986-1990. Own studio in Germany
1988 -pres. Member of the Crafts Council, Germany
1990-pres. Own studio in Germany
1991 -pres. Regular participant, annual crafts show at the Hamburg Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe, Germany
1991 -92 Teaching Assistant, Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood AWAR DS
1998 Award of the Federal Glazier Council, Hadamar, Germany
1997 State award of Lower Saxony for excellence in crafts, Hannover, Germany
1996 Johann-Michael-Maucher award, Schwaebisch-Gmund, Germany

GABRIELE KüSTNER from Germany.


material: Glass

Gabriele Küstner
the plates are made of clear glass cane (glass rods) in different diameters. these rods are painted with china paints from the outside, the paint is fired on the cane at app, 5900c, with the diamond saw i saw the cane in pieces of one centimetre or according to the design in different lengths. these pieces are laid out to a certain pattern on a coated fireclay-shelf and are melted to a flat sheet in a fusing oven at a temperature of 9000c. during this process the round glasspieces get the characteristic "honeycomb-pattern, be- cause when you stack round pieces together there is always a gap between these pieces. when the glass gets soft it runs into these gaps first and that makes the honeycomb shape. the-what i call "woven-pattern" is the cross-section of the "honeycomb-pattern". after the glass has been annealed, the sheet is ground smooth and plain on a flat mill with silicon carbide,. now the sheet will be laid in a special coated metal mold and put back to the oven, at a temperature of 7000c the sheet slumps into the mold and will be annealed at 5200c for many hours, finally the plate is ground at a grinding lathe with aluminum-oxide or natural sandstone wheels to obtain the textured surface.