UMBDENSTOCK Jean-Pierre, glass sculpture, permanent artist of Galerie Capazza since

Biography

Stained-glass maker at studio Le Chevallier from1974 to 1978

Initiation into the technique of the blown glass at l'Atelier du Verre of Sars-Poteries, then at Claude Morin’s.

First studio in Ongles, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence in 1980.

Participates to the first Symposium International du Verre de Sars-Poteries in 1982.

Prize-winner of a Research grant and Creation awarded by the Ministry of Culture (CNAP) in 1983.

Stay at California College of Arts & Crafts -Oakland (San Francisco) under the direction of Marvin Lipofsky

Settles down in Namur where he shares the studio of Véronique Lutgen, his wife.

Co-founder with Louis Mériaux of the Summer University of Sars-Poteries in 1985, he is the coordinator and supervise numerous introductory and improvement courses there until 1987.

Feasibility study, conception and installation of the Verrerie de Phoenix - recycled glass—in Mauritius (1990-1991)

Project leader for the creation of an international center of glass in Meisenthal (Lorraine) in 1990.

Gastdozent in Hochschule der Bildenden Kunst in Sarrebruck from1992 to 1995.

Project leader by the Interministerial Delegation for cities (1994)

Freel-ance designer at Cristallerie Royale de Leerdam. Série unica 1995.

Invitation at the European congress Waste and Insularity in Ajaccio in 1995.

Associed with Véronique Lutgen and Robert Houri, settlles, in 1995, a new studio in Saint-Gobain on the historic site Manufacture royale des Glaces, created by Colbert in 1665.

Project leader in the City of Ajaccio within the framework of the program ECO-MED-VILLESI

Closing of Hyalos studio

Invitation to l'Atelier du Verre de Sars-Poteries during 10 days on the occasion of his(her,its) fence(close) (2000 ) before the inauguration of the new workshop(studio). Teaching at Cam Ocagi - The Glass Furnace Istanbul (Turkey) 2002-2003

Residence Museum of Sars-Poteries (septembre à novembre 2002)

Coordinating project OSSIDIANA (Ajaccio) Construction site of insertion (january to september 2003)

Décédé en janvier 2011

Public collections