16 June 2011 – 16 October 2011

This collection has gone to Museum Kunstpalast as a permanent loan, with an exhibited selection in the Grünes Gewölbe of the Tonhalle.

Since the 1970s the concertmaster and violin virtuoso Giorgio Silzer (born 1920) has made a name for himself also as a collector of decorative art of the Art Nouveau and Art Deco periods. There is no such thing as one Silzer collection, but there are several, com­prising ceramics, glass and tin, cutlery, silver and furniture, which were in large parts acquired by the Grassi Museum in Leipzig in 2002 (with a smaller stock of tin works being held in Zons). However, rather than settling down, Silzer started a new collection concentrating entirely on metal art of the 1920s to 1950s.