!!!Mildner, Johann Josef

b. Studena, Czech Republic (then Kaltenbach), Sept. 22, 1765, 
d. Gutenbrunn (Lower Austria), Feb. 11, 1808, glass cutter and 
optician. From 1779 in Gutenbrunn near Martinsberg (Lower Austria). He 
used gold etching, polychrome techniques, etc. to produce decorated 
drinking glasses ("M. glasses") in the style of sandwich glasses. His 
work, together with that of A.  Kothgasser and G. S.  Mohn, is 
considered the most significant glass art of the early 19th century.

!Literature
G. E. Pazaurek, Glaeser der Empire- und 
Biedermeierzeit, 1923; W. Prager, M. fec. à Gutenbrunn, 1976; 
NDB.



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