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Rosemarie Lierke
Glass Art / Ancient Glass Technology
Vita
Born December 1934 in Berlin.
1953 Abitur at the Salzmannschule in Schnepfenthal / Thüringen (founded 1784 by Christian Gotthilf Salzmann).
1953-60 studying mathematics at the Humboldt-University in Berlin and in Cologne.
1958 marriage with the physicist Ernst G. Lierke, a former schoolmate.
1962-1967 scientific employee at the Technical University in Aachen, establishing an international documentation-center for ultrasonics. At the same time, participating in painting classes at the Werkkunstschule in Aachen and in classes for enameling. Construction of a kiln for enameling and other high temperature tasks.
1967 the family moves with her two sons to Toledo/Ohio, U.S.A. – a city which houses three giant glass companies, and calls itself ‚glass capital of the world’.
1968-1970 glass classes at the legendary studio glass furnace in the garage of the Toledo Museum of Art, and later in the new glass studio. The instructors were Fritz Dreisbach and Jack Schmidt. Toledo is the place of Dominick Labino, one of the founders of the studio glass movement. The excellent glass collection of the museum and the well stocked libraries in Toledo permitted an intense private study of glass history and technology. After three years, the family returns to Germany.
1970-1977 practicing and deepening the theoretical knowledge through glass experiments (sagging, fusing, mosaics, pâte de verre) using the old kiln. Occasional visits in Frauenau with Erwin Eisch, or in the Glasfachschule Zwiesel to work at a glass furnace.
1975-1979 teacher for mathematics at the local high school.
1977-1987 workshop for lamp-working in Schwalbach/Taunus. Creating a new craquelé technique which can be exactly applied to limited areas of a vessel (patented 1979). Participating at exhibitions in Europe and the U.S.A.
1987-1988 again in the U.S.A. because of a NASA-research project of Ernst G. L. in Pasadena/Cal.. Rosemarie L. intensifies her scientific research of ancient glass technology.
Since 1988 visits and private investigations in more than 200 museums and glass collections in Europe and the United States, occasionally experiments in the workshops of studio glass friends, in glass plants or schools.
Since 1991 numerous presentations and 1999 with 10 co-authors: ‚Antike Glastöpferei – ein vergessenes Kapitel der Glasgeschichte’ [see 2005 ‘Die Hedwigsbecher - das normannisch-sizilische Erbe der staufischen Kaiser’[ 2007/08 teaching contract on Ancient Glass Technology at the Friedrich-Schiller-
University in Jena 2009 ‘The non-blown ancient glass vessels’ (in German and English)[
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