3 Klostermühle (Klasterske Mlyn); zeitgenössische Fotografie. - Contemporary photograph. - Photographie 
d'epoque. - Fotografia dell'epoca 
(Stiess 1951). Anton Lötz (born 1838, ac- 
cording to Stiess - with the exception of the 
period 1862-1870 - employed at the glass- 
works in Klostermühle and the right hand of 
his mother, died 11 th September 1877) and 
Johann Lötz (born 1835, according to Stiess 
leased the glassworks at Klingenbrunn near 
Passau from about 1860 tiil 1870, died 3rd 
February 1880) are mentioned as the owners 
of glassworks on an old tombstone in Unter 
reichenstein (Rejstejn) (Fig.8). 
Of the children of Johann and Susanna Lötz, 
we know most about daughter Karoline 
(born on 30th March 1836 as the daughter of 
“Johann Lötz, skilled glass producer and 
cutter of Bergreichenstein 152” and “Su 
sanna, nee Husska of Kuttenplan”, died 10th 
April 1899 as a notary’s widow) (Fig. 6). Her 
marriage to Max Ritter von Spaun took place 
on 23rd January 1855 (Fig. 21). Maximilian 
Josef Anton Ritter von Spaun (born 4th June 
1827 in Steyr as the son of Franz Ritter von 
Spaun, imperial and royal district commis- 
sioner, and Aloisia, nee Wanderer, died 10th 
March 1897 in St. Pölten), worked as notary, 
mainly in Enns, and reports on his Profes 
sional and private experiences in an “outline 
of his life” which survives as a typescript 
with additions by his cousin Dr. Johann Rit 
ter von Spaun (see pp. 81, 82). Of his first- 
born son Max (born 15th February 1856; 
other children: Mathilde, born 31st Decem- 
ber 1858, Luise, born 8th August 1862) he 
writes: “My son Max usually spent his holi- 
days with us in Enns and offen went to Linz, 
or to my mother-in-law in Klostermühle 
(glassworks), where he worked very hard in 
the glassworks. Later Max was sent to the 
technical university by his kindly grand- 
mother at her expense, and also to Munich 
for a couple of years for mechanical 
engineering. . .”. Susanna Gerstner en- 
trusted the glassworks to her grandson as 
early as 1879; most of the glass illustrated 
here in colour dates from this time (Figs. 24, 
25, 29, 30, 34 35). The so-called arrow mark 
which identifies much of the glassware of the 
turn of the Century was taken from one of 
the Spaun family’s coats of arms (Fig. 12). 
Two Contemporary photographs of exhibition 
glassware represent valuable documentary 
evidence (Figs. 76, 78). ' 
Max Ritter von Spaun (born 15th February 
1856, died 31st July 1909) was first married 
to Johanna Krug (Fig. 28), who died soon af- 
ter the birth of her son Max. Three children, 
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