Hinterglas Malerei

English translation: Reverse glass painting

08:06 Jun 6, 2020
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Art/Literary - Art, Arts & Crafts, Painting / Fine Arts
German term or phrase: Hinterglas Malerei
This is for a catalogue, listing and illustrating works by an artist in Switzerland. It's a technique of painting on the back of moderately to fairly thick glass to achieve very bland visual effects.
Karin Baasch
Switzerland
English translation:Reverse glass painting
Explanation:
Reverse painting on glass is an art form consisting of applying paint to a piece of glass and then viewing the image by turning the glass over and looking through the glass at the image. Another term used to refer to the art of cold painting and gilding on the back of glass is verre églomisé, named after the French decorator Jean-Baptiste Glomy (1711–86), who framed prints using glass that had been reverse-painted.[1] In German it is known as Hinterglasmalerei.
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5 +3Reverse glass painting
Karin Redclift
4painting on glass, glass painting
Helen Shiner
4verre eglomise
Chris Pr


  

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Reverse glass painting


Explanation:
Reverse painting on glass is an art form consisting of applying paint to a piece of glass and then viewing the image by turning the glass over and looking through the glass at the image. Another term used to refer to the art of cold painting and gilding on the back of glass is verre églomisé, named after the French decorator Jean-Baptiste Glomy (1711–86), who framed prints using glass that had been reverse-painted.[1] In German it is known as Hinterglasmalerei.

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  • Reverse glass painting is known as Hinterglasmalerei in Germany.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_glass_painting
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painting on glass, glass painting


Explanation:
MOMA refers to them simply as ‘glass paintings’: https://assets.moma.org/documents/moma_catalogue_448_3000631...

Artforum, the journal, as ‘paintings on glass’: https://www.artforum.com/print/196702/kandinsky-s-paintings-...

And some of the foremost specialists on Kandinsky, such as Konrad Rötel: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Kandinsky-Paintings-Hinterglassmale... and Rose Carol Washton Long (here for the Guggenheim): https://www.guggenheim.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/615214...



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That should read ‘As do some of the foremost ...’

Helen Shiner
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verre eglomise


Explanation:
Is another term derived from the French....

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Note added at 21 hrs (2020-06-07 05:22:00 GMT)
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...and with accents...
verre églomisé

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Also:
"Backpainting/Verre Eglomisé/Hinterglasmalerei involves painting on the back of glass using opaque colours and sometimes goldleaf."

http://www.yannypetters.net/verre-eglomise.html

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Plus the French also brings a bit more mystique... :)

Chris Pr
United Kingdom
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