Helmut Schardt
I was born in Germany in 1935 and
started apprenticeship in the glass
craft in the town of Hof in Northern
Bavaria in 1951. After obtaining a
master certificate from the Craft
Association (Handwerkskammer) in Hamburg
I left Germany to pursue employment in
Iceland. I immigrated to the US in
1958 where I concentrated my efforts
exclusively to art and stained glass
with employment at Dohmen Studio in St.
Paul, MN and Durham- and Duval
Studios in NYC. I was studio foreman at
Duval Studios, where we executed
some of the first commissions in faceted
glass cast in epoxy in the US.
In 1967 I opened my own studio where I
executed commissions for artists
and Interior Firms until 2003, when I
retired. At that point I had
manufactured and installed art glass
windows for churches and synagogues
for 45 years in this country.