A foundation and its goals

The Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung lends support to art and the sciences 

It all began with a fascination for glass...!

From the very beginning Alexander Tutsek and his wife Dr. Eva-Maria Fahrner-Tutsek were enthusiastic about glass and its physical properties. When they started to build up their private collection of studio glass they quickly realized that this material had not yet found a foothold in German art. Compared to America and many European countries, studio glass is relatively unknown in Germany, and government support for artists working with glass only exists to a very small degree. Only a few institutions offer courses how to work with the material glass and this offer has unfortunately been cut throughout the last years as for example at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. In the US, museums for modern art show breathtaking glass sculptures. It has also been there that museums were built in the last years, which exclusively exhibit glass art.

In Germany the artists only have a very small forum and the public hardly finds an occasion to get to know this form of art.

The birth of the foundation

The goal of lending support to contemporary glass artwork was joined by the desire to promote research in the engineering sciences, with a special emphasis on glass, ceramics, stone and industrial minerals. All this led Alexander Tutsek to create a non-profit foundation.

On 18 December 2000, after several years of preliminary work with a team of experts, the Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung was approved by the government. Now the foundation could get started with its work.

The first exhibition

At the moment the primary task of the foundation is to build up a first-class collection of studio glass sculptures. A forum will thus be given to artists working with glass. The public interested in glass art will find a possibility to get to know and understand this form of contemporary art. The first exhibition of the foundation GLASS – A New Experience which will take place from May 14 to November 14, 2004 will offer an opportunity to meet glass art. A catalogue has already been published and is available (please see next page for bibliographical data).

The sculptures have been bought on international art fairs and in galleries throughout the world. The collection shows the variety and particularity of the artistic form being possible with the medium glass.

Glass in a studio in Schwabing

The foundation has recently moved into an Art Nouveau villa in Schwabing. The architect German Bestelmeyer (known in Munich for building of the University of Munich and the extensions of the Deutsche Museum) designed an elegant house – of course with a large studio – for his friend Prof. Albertshofer, who worked apart from his professorship at the Academy of Fine Arts as a sculpturer. In this former studio with its very special atmsophere about 30 glass sculptures will be shown created by internationally renowned artists. 

Press photoes and press releases are avilable on CD upon request.

Press Contact:

Horst Koppelstätter

Koppelstätter Kommunikation GmbH
Friedrichstraße 2
76530 Baden-Baden | Germany

Phone: +49-7221-97372-0
Fax: +49-7221-97372-22
E-Mail: hok@koppelstaetter-kommunikation.de

Bibliographic data of the catalogue

Eva-Maria Fahrner-Tutsek
Katalog eins
Glas der Gegenwart  Contemporary Glass
ISBN 3-937220-00-3, German/English edition
with contributions from Eva-Maria Fahrner-Tutsek, Florian Hufnagl, Helmut Ricke
and photographs from Hans-Jürgen Becker
2004, Edition EMF published by the Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung
126 pages, 96 color photos, paperback, 24.5 x 24.5 cm
Euro 24.- / USD 30.-

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