TOBIAS MØHL

Tobias Møhl is a Danish glass artist working with blown glass and cane-working techniques within the Venetian tradition. Typically, he employs reticello to produce delicate linear networks of crisscrossing threads on the surfaces of his forms. Through careful work in the hot shop, the colored glass cane is fused with the molten body of the sculpture. The encased patterns transform as the glass if blown into its final form. Møhl trained at the renowned glass production center Holmegaard in Denmark from the age of 19 and received his status as a master glassblower in 1992. The following year, he studied Italian glass techniques at Lino Tagliapietra’s master class at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts. Møhl began to build his practice upon these traditionally Italian techniques, forging what he sees as a uniquely Scandinavian artistic expression: the rigor and visual dynamism inherited from Murano’s glass blowers in concert with the reserved silhouettes and subtle palette of the Danish tradition. Møhl describes his practice in terms of “methods that break away from the traditional patterns to discover a new and more organic expression and style.” His works, subsequently, are marked by thoughtful technical experimentation, a deep understanding of the medium, and an emphasis on precise, modernist forms.

Møhl’s works can be found in the collections of numerous museums throughout the U.S. and Europe, including the Corning Museum of Glass, Memorial Art Museum in Rochester, NY, the Museum of Arts and Design, and the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe in Hamburg, Germany, among others. He has been recognized with numerous awards, including the Glasmuseum Ebeltoft's Reticello Prize, the Loewe Foundation Craft Prize, and the Hempel Glass Prize. Møhl lives and works in Ebeltoft, Denmark.