Sieglinde Widmann

Sieglinde Widmann was born in Jena, East Germany in 1941. Born during the Second World War in Germany, she grew up in Communist East Germany and started working as a scientific glass blower at the Jena Glaswerke in Jena. She entered West Germany through Berlin just before the erection of the infamous Berlin Wall. Widmann joined the scientific glass blowing staff at Schott in Mainz, West Germany and worked there alongside Hans Godo Frabel making precision laboratory instruments out of boron glass rods and tubes. She married and then emigrated to Louisiana, USA, and remained there for three years before coming to Atlanta in 1968 to join her former colleague Hans Godo Frabel. Widmann is a highly accomplished Frabel glass artist, who has created several studio designs and creates her own one-of-a-kind glass sculptures, mostly flower and flower inspired sculptures.