Waltraud Neuwirth 
COLOR IN GLASS 
FROM BIEDERMEIER TO ART 
DECO 
Vol. I: Color Schemes • White • 
Black • Yellow • Green 
280 pages, 114 color illustrations, 
53 biack-and-white illustrations 
ISBN 3-900282-42-0 (1993) 
Vol. II: Blue • Red • Index 
ca. 280 pages, ca. 100 color illustrations, 
ca. 40 biack-and-white illustrations 
ISBN 3-900282-43-9 (in print, 1993) 
The glass collection in the Technical 
Museum for Industry and Trade in 
Vienna is the only one of its kind in 
the world. Contemporary acquisi- 
tions of Biedermeier and early His- 
toricism (stemming from the Impe 
rial Polytechnical Institute, originally 
belonging to the “Cabinet of Fac- 
tory Products" or the “Technical Ca 
binet'' and later encorporated into 
the Technical Museum) were added 
to in the early 20th Century with ac- 
quisitions from the newly founded 
Technical Museum. 
A two-volume publication is devoted 
to the subject, “Color in Glass.” The 
first volume treats the series of 
sample colors from Biedermeier 
into Art Deco (flacons from Bohe- 
mia, England and France; glass 
cakes from Italy, samples of flat 
glass from Brunn am Gebirge, se 
ries of colored beakers from Haida 
and Krasna), deals with Utility glass 
of various origins such as glauber’s 
salt glass production in Austria and 
finally handles the color groups of 
white, black, yellow and green. 
The second volume will be devoted 
to blue and red, and will contain a 
comprehensive register. Detailed 
quotations from Contemporary liter- 
ature (glass technology and exhibi- 
tions) are intended to make access 
easier to many sources which are 
otherwise not very accessible.