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ID: 500109506
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500109506

 

Record Type: Person
Amelung, John Frederick (American glass manufacturer, 1741-1798)

Note: Amelung emigrated to the United States and in 1784 founded the Amelung glasshouse (also known as the New Bremen glasshouse, the Etna Glass Works, and the American Glass Manufactory) at New Bremen near Fredrickstown, Maryland. The factory mainly produced window glass, looking glass, bottles, and lenses although it also made a slightly smoky crystal glass as well as colored glass vessels. The factory closed for financial reasons in 1795.

Names:
Amelung, John Frederick (preferred,V,index)
John Frederick Amelung (V,display)
Amelung, Johann Friedrich (V)

Nationalities:
American (preferred)
German

Roles:
manufacturer (preferred)

Gender: male

Birth and Death Places:
Born:  Bremen (Bremen state, Germany) (inhabited place)

Related People or Corporate Bodies:
owner of ....  New Bremen Glass Manufactory  
..............  (American glass manufactory, 1784- ca. 1795) [500331795]

List/Hierarchical Position:
 ....  Persons, Artists
 ........  Amelung, John Frederick (I)

Biographies:
(American glass manufacturer, 1741-1798) ..... [BHA Preferred]
(American manufacturer, 1741-1798) ..... [Grove Art]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:
Amelung, Johann Friedrich ........ [Grove Art, VP]
...................................................  Fleming, Penguin Dictionary of Decorative Arts (1989) 26
...................................................  Grove Art artist database (1989-)
Amelung, John Frederick ........ [BHA Preferred, Grove Art Preferred]
...............................................  BHA, Authority file (1973-)
...............................................  Grove Art artist database (1989-)
John Frederick Amelung ........ [VP]
.............................................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules

Subject: ........ [BHA, Gallery Systems, Grove Art, VP]
....................  BHA, Authority file (1973-)
....................  Fleming, Penguin Dictionary of Decorative Arts (1989) 26
....................  Gallery Systems (2000-) LOC ID: n86038520
....................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
....................  Grove Art artist database (1989-)
....................  Journal of Glass Studies 18 (1976)
....................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) LOC ID: n86038520
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
.......... Fleming, Penguin Dictionary of Decorative Arts (1989) 26
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