Name

Tiroler Glasmalerei und Mosaik-Anstalt, Innsbruck

Period of Activity
1861–
Website
Author and Date of Entry
Francine Giese 2024
Information about the Studio

Founded in 1861 by Albert Neuhauser (1833–1901), who was involved early on with experiments on coloured glass, the painter Georg Mader (1824–1881) and the Diocesan architect Josef von Stadl (1828–1893), the Tiroler Glasmalerei und Mosaik-Anstalt is a workshop in Innsbruck, specialised in the production and restoration of stained glass windows and glass mosaics.
In the 19th century, the company had its own glass factory in today's Schöpfstraße in Innsbruck to cover the company's needs. The production was expanded in 1873 with the fabrication of roled plate (Kathedralglas), which led to the renaming of the company to Tiroler Glasmalerei-Anstalt und Kathedralen-Bauhütte and the nomination of Albert's father, the master tinsmith and glazier Anton Neuhauser, and the art historian Albert Jele (1844–1900) as additional partners.
In 1874, Jele replaced Albert Neuhauser as director of the company, a position he was to hold until 1898. Under its new director, the company experienced a great upswing and branches were founded in Vienna and New York.
The company had various artistic directors, among them Bernard Rice (from 1897–1917), Gottlieb Schuller (from 1919–1944) and Josef Widmoser (from 1944–1972). Since 2013, Natascha Mader is running the family business in the fifth generation.

Literature

Fussenegger, H. (2015). Die Tiroler Glasmalerei- und Mosaikanstalt in Innsbruck zwischen Historismus und Jugendstil. Eine Werkauswahl [Unpublished mater's thesis]. Universität Innsbruck 2015.

Pittl, U. (1994). Die Glasmalerei der Zwischenkriegszeit in Tirol und Vorarlberg im Sakralen Raum. Am Beispiel von Gottlieb Schuller, künstlerischer Leiter der Tiroler Glasmalerei- und Mosaikanstalt 1919–1944. Dissertation, Universität Innsbruck.

Rampold, R. (2018). Geschichte der Tiroler Glasmalerei und Mosaikanstalt. In Mosaic Connection 2018. Tagung zu historischen Mosaiken und Glasfenstern in Tirol und deren Verbindung zu Tschechien. Art a Craft Mozaika, Únětice u Prahy (pp. 6-9).

Rampold, R. (2001). 140 Jahre Tiroler Glasmalerei- und Mosaikanstalt 1861–2001. Innsbruck. https://mosaik-tirol.at/Literatur/TGM-Rampold

Schneider-Henn, D. (1983). Die Tiroler Glasmalerei im Zeitalter der Weltausstellungen. Antiquitäten-Zeitung, 16.

Zimmeter, K. (1911). Tiroler Glasmalerei und Mosaikanstalt, Neuhauser. Dr. Jele & Comp. Innsbruck.