The glass door of the Mayer’sche Wunderkammer with its words, in the light

Wunderkammer · opened 2018

The
Wunderkammer

“Glass, stone, light,
not forgetting the shadow
nor the dreams behind it.”

The words on the door, in English. Oneiros, from the Greek: a dream vision.

IThe Room

“Objects of art, of desire, of light and of shadow, of the fragile transparency of glass and the cold hardness of stone.”

Our family manufactory is craftsmanship lived, and at the same time a little of a museum: sediments of the history of glass art from the Middle Ages to the present day. Gothic fragments, the Pre-Raphaelite nineteenth century, Art Nouveau, the 1930s, German post-war art and the here and now with our Mayer of Munich artists live side by side in an inspiring coexistence: visible in the light, or resting patiently in the shadow, ready to be discovered again.

The radical virtuosity of a Karl Knappe, in stone as in glass, the mischievous playfulness of Josef Oberberger, the spare clarity of Bernward Mayer, a son of the house: all of this is there to be marvelled at, or recognised, in the Mayer’sche Wunderkammer.

A window with painted heads in the Wunderkammer, lilies in front

A painted hand holding a sphere, glass painted in grisaille

“What is foreign to one another heightens one another’s effect.”

IIThe Offer

Four rooms, one house

What we offer for sale reaches from single pieces and current limited editions by our favourite house artists to historical fragments and highly individual commissions.

i
Single pieces
Visible in the light, or resting patiently in the shadow, ready to be discovered again.
View single pieces
ii
Limited editions
Edition 17.0: seventeen artists, ten copies each.
The Edition
iii
Historical fragments
Gothic, the Pre-Raphaelite nineteenth century, Art Nouveau, the 1930s, German post-war art.
View historical fragments
iv
Commissions
Highly individual, from our workshop on Seidlstraße.
Enquire about a commission