Cultural highlights
Visit entertaining events and interesting exhibitions at Haus Schulenburg in Gera. The unique ambience will inspire you.
Current exhibition
Opening Saturday, 02.03.2024
Exhibition “Glass art and flower paintings”
15:00 in the Belle Etage of the Schulenburg House
The exhibition focuses on valuable historicist, Art Nouveau and Art Deco glassware, which takes visitors on a colorful journey from 1850 to 1940. The glass works of art come from large private collections – many thanks to the lenders. They can otherwise be seen at the Grassi Museum in Leipzig, the Bröhan Museum in Berlin and the Driehaus Museum in Chicago. Flower paintings by the English Arts and Crafts artist Walter Crane and selected 20th century artists form a beautiful contrast to the bright glass: Curt Hermann, German Neo-Impressionist, Georg Muche, the youngest Bauhaus master at the time, Otto Herbig from the Brückemaler circle, Hilde Linzen-Gebhardt and Frida von Düring (Weimar), Albinmüller (Darmstadt artists’ colony), Dora Koch-Stetter (Ahrenshoop), Hans Rudolph (Gera).
Traditional glass production is part of the cultural heritage of mankind
The occasion for this remarkable exhibition is the inclusion of traditional manual glass production in Finland, France, Spain, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Germany on the UNESCO World Heritage List on December 6, 2023. The Lamberts glassworks in Waldsassen is one of the initiators of this recognition; Lamberts is one of only two companies in the world that still produce mouth-blown flat glass. This glass adorns the illuminated clock faces of Big Ben in London, the glass art of the Rockefeller Center in New York, the windows of the Frauenkirche in Dresden and the opalescent skylight of the Schulenburg House in Gera.