Barockglas

  • Title Goblet with hollow baluster stem and hare hunting
  • Date Nuremberg, c. 1680
  • Dimensions Height 22.7 cm
  • Provenance Engraving: Circle of Hermann Schwinger
  • Literature Erich Meyer-Heisig, Der Nürnberger Glasschnitt des 17. Jh., 1963, ill. WT 108. Comparable form of the goblet as well as engraving of the trees in Veste Coburg Meyer-Heisig, ill. WT 126, the engraving of the bird is as finely detailed as the animals on our goblet.
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Hermann Schwinger (1640 – 1683)

Schwinger, who died of consumption at a young age, bequeathed no fewer than sixteen signed works to posterity. As the son of a craftsman, he learnt glass-engraving with the Nuremberg master Hans Stephan Schmidt, who must have been himself very skilled. Schwinger took up the style of the older Schwanhardt that dates from the fifties and sixties and combined it with the newly developed water landscapes and city silhouettes. His various talents and his openness to new ideas enabled him to bring many different motifs to life on glass. Despite the wealth of signed works, it is difficult to recognise an individual “handwriting” in Schwinger’s work, because he treated his subjects in so many different ways and employed all the decorative and ornamental elements customary and popular in his day.