Friday, May 2, 2025
Conference of the Friends of Cast Iron Art at the Sayner Hütte
Registration starts at 8:15 AM in the visitor center of the Sayner Hütte (Krupp Hall)
8:45 AM Welcome
9:00 AM to 4:00 PM Lectures


Section 1 “Karl Friedrich Schinkel - Architecture and Applied Arts in One Piece”:

1. Jan Mende (Berlin City Museum), “Karl Friedrich Schinkel and the Beautiful in Everyday Life.

Designs for the Prussian Applied Arts”

2. Martina Pall (Expert, formerly Schell Collection Graz, Austria), “Garden Furniture from the Royal Prussian Iron Foundries”

3. Elisabeth Bartel (Berlin City Museum), “The Schinkel Cabinet in the Knoblauch House and Iron Treasures from the Collection of the Berlin City Museum”

4. Dr. Józef Tomasz Juros (Orzimek, Poland) “Karl Friedrich Schinkel and His Works in Malapane”

5. Aleksandra Kosykh, "The development of Russian metallurgy and the country’s innovative iron structures from the late

17th and 18th centuries"

Section 2 “Sayner Hütte” and “Reports from Museums and Their Collections”:

6. Florian Fichtner (TU Bergakademie Freiberg), "This is indeed a suspended railway. Carl Ludwig Althans and Early Industrial Factory Building Using the Example of the Casting Hall of the Sayner Hütte"

7. Manuela Fellner-Feldhaus (Historical Archive Krupp, Essen), “The Photographic Sample Book of the Sayner Hütte”,

8. Dr. Christoph Schmälzle & Dr. Charlotte Schreiter (LVR-LandesMuseum Bonn), “Monuments in Cast Iron – Iron Castings from the Bonn State Museum in the Context of the Collection”

9. Katharina Blümling (State Museum Koblenz), “Insights into the Planning of the New Permanent Exhibition at the State Museum Koblenz”

Section 3 “Cast Iron Art”:

10. Antje Bräuer (Art Casting Museum Lauchhammer), “300 Years of Iron Works Lauchhammer”,

11. Dr. Ulrike Laufer (MUS&A, Essen), “Architecture and Applied Arts in One Piece – Interpreted in South Bavarian Style”

12. Dr. Balázs Mészáros (Hungarian National Museum, Budapest), “The Iron Bust of Lajos Kossuth and Other Art Cast Statues from the Munkács Iron Works”

4:15 PM - 5:45 PM Tour of Sayner Hütte with Art Casting Gallery 

Sat | May 3 | BUS EXCURSION 1 “CAST IRON ART”

Sun | May 4 |  BUS EXCURSION 2 "TRACING THE IRON ORE OF THE SAYNER HÜTTE IN THE WESTERN WALD ACCOMPANIED BY ALBERT SCHÄFER"

Registration no later than March 1, 2025 via the online form:

https://www.cognitoforms.com/StiftungSaynerHütte/AnmeldungTagungDerInternationalenEisenkunstgussfreunde

Contact / Inquiries:

barbara.friedhofen@saynerhuette.org