Programme of the Glass Deterioration Colloquium
Friday, Feb. 20th, 2015
Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart, Am Weißenhof 1
Lecture Hall, Neubau II
9:00
Registration open
9:30
Petra von Olschowski, President of the State Academy of Art and Design Stuttgart
Gerhard Eggert, Chair, Objects’ Conservation
Welcome at the Academy
Session I: Glass Deterioration & Conservation
Chair: Britta Schmutzler
9:45 Katherine Eremin (Harvard):
What we know about glass deterioration and how we analyze it
10:15 Guus Verhaar (Amsterdam):
Identification and documentation of early stages of glass sickness
10:45 Posters & Coffee
11:15 Norman Tennent (Glasgow):
The relevance of refractive index for the treatment of crizzled glass
11:45 Chiara Gamarra (Torino):
Influence of degradation in the production of quantitative data by using portable-XRF
on glassy matrices of Limousin composition
12:15 Lunch Break
Walking Tour Options: 1. Producing Glass Art at the Academy
2. The Weissenhof Estate – an Architectural Icon
Session II: Glass Induced Metal Corrosion on Museum Exhibits (GIMME)
Chair: Christoph Krekel
14:00 Gerhard Eggert (Stuttgart):
A short history of GIMME Research
14:30 Andrea Fischer (Stuttgart):
Further (unknown) GIMME corrosion products
15:00 Robert Dinnebier (Stuttgart)
Ordered structures from powdered samples:
Modern X-ray powder diffraction of corrosion products
15:30 Posters & Coffee
16:00 Isabel Keller (Zurich):
How rare is it? A survey in the Swiss National Museum
16:30 Stephanie Wümmers (Stuttgart):
Glass balls falling down: Brass and lead corrosion on a Black Forest Schäppel
17:00 Silke Beiner-Büth (Hamburg):
Glass deterioration in the Hamburg Museum
17:30 Refreshments
18:00 Conference Dinner (extra ticket needed, 25 EUR)
Posters on Display on Friday
No. 1
Gerhard Eggert (Stuttgart):
Peculiar pictures: The Geilmann album (slide show)
No. 2
Helen Ganiaris (London):
Hazing of display case glass: a review of recent work
No. 3
Elzbieta Greiner-Wronowa (Kraków):
Alteration of historic glass objects caused by volatile organic compounds in museums
No. 4
Dana Rohanová (Prague):
Corrosion of potassium archaeological glass
No. 5
Ulrike Rothenhäusler (Zurich):
Historic Swiss pharmacy glasses after 100 years of permanent exhibition Condition and conservation treatment
Saturday, Feb. 21st, 2015
Landesmuseum Württemberg, Altes Schloss, Schillerplatz 6, Lecture Hall
9:30
Andrea Funck, Chief Conservator
Welcome to the Landesmuseum
Session III: New Theories
Chair: Gerhard Eggert
9:45 Olivier Schalm (Antwerp):
Laminated altered layers in historical glass: density variations of
silica nanoparticle random packings as explanation for the observed lamellae
10:15 Christoph Lenting (Bonn):
In situ, real-time, and isotope tracer glass corrosion experiments:
Understanding pattern formation in silicate glass corrosion zones
10:45 Round table discussion:
Gel, cracks, layers – Understanding glass deterioration
11:15 Coffee
11:30 Meeting, Glass Deterioration Group of ICOM-CC Glass & Ceramics WG
11:30 Astrid Wollmann (Stuttgart)
Ernesto Wolf Glass Collection Visit, Tour 1
12:15 Ernesto Wolf Glass Collection Visit, Tour 2
13:00 End of the Conference
14:00 Optional, if weather permits:
Walking Tour, Stuttgart City Centre