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World's behind glass

On 3rd December, 2006 started the Verre Églomisé Painting (glass engraved on the back covered by unfired painting) exibition "World behind glass" in Pilatus House. The significant collection of Verre Églomisé - one of the largest in Europe - is being newly-arranged.

In 1955 the local authorities acquired a large part of the important collection of verre églomisé (glass engraved on the back covered by unfired painting) belonging to the Murnau master brewer Johann Krötz as an addition to the numerous examples of this form of art that the museum already possessed.

By the end of the 19th century Johann Krötz had already collected over a thousand examples of verre églomisé, most of which had been painted in the area of Lake Staffel and Oberammergau. The significance of his collection is based, on the one hand, on the fact that it already comprised a cohesive holding of this important field of verre églomisé, and, on the other hand, that Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc were familiar with and appreciated his collection and in 1912 published nine of his pictures in the almanach "Der Blaue Reiter" (The Blue Rider). In 1987 the husband and wife Harold (1912-1983) and Evi Stobitzer (1912-1988) donated to the museum pictures mainly from the Bavarian and Bohemian Forests but also from other regions.

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