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Hans Godo Frabel, Hammer and Nails, 1978
glass
12 x 6 x 9 in.

Hans Godo Frabel was born in Jena, Germany, in 1941. He studied scientific glassblowing at Jena Glaswerke and took art classes at the Mainzer Kunstchule in Mainz, Germany. In 1965 he moved to Atlanta, Georgia, where he attended the Georgia Institute of Technology. In 1968 he established the Frabel Studio in Atlanta. Today he is recognized as one of the world's leading glass artists. He has done commissions for Absolut Vodka, the Carter Center, the Corning Museum of Glass, and the Smithsonian Institution, among others. Frabel's delicate and innovative sculptural compositions begin with heated borosilicate rods that are shaped with a hot lamp or by hand. His subjects, often rendered at life-size scale, encompass the human figure, tools, birds, flowers, and water droplets.