About

As both artist and teacher, Herman transformed modern glassmaking through his emphatically experimental practice – instigating and being a staunch advocate of the ‘Studio Glass Movement’, which from the 1960s onwards elevated glass to a medium in which artists could achieve free and original expression, as well as individual authorship over their works.

EARLY BEGINNINGS – POLAND, MEXICO, NEW YORK & FROM THE WEST COAST TO WISCONSIN

Herman’s life and career encompassed a series of displacements and migrations. His mother, a Polish Jew, had left her homeland in the early 1930s and moved to …