This art was hanging in my Grandparents’ home when I was a child. It says, “Gott segne unser heim,” which is German, and means “God bless our home.” Once when I asked Grandma about it, she told me what it meant, and that her family was German, and that they spoke German in their home until she was 17. Then World War I broke out, and her daddy came home that day and said, “We are proud Americans. We are not Germans. We will no longer speak German in this house, but English only.” And they never did again. 🙂 But the art was her family’s, which she inherited from her mother. This art is no longer in the family, but I took a picture of it the last time I saw it, just in case I could at some point find an artist or craftsman who could duplicate it. I am so nostalgic for my family’s history!
Same story for my grandmother-other side of family took it when she passed in 1964,they probably sold it or threw it away. I am a retired graphic designer and was looking to recreate this art also, It is a very simple process. It is called reverse glass art. The gold paint is silk screened, then the black, then the wrinkled tin foil, maybe real tin and not aluminum is placed on a cardboard backing. The foil is probably painted with a thin nitrocellulose tinting lacquer colored with aniline dye for the blue and pink. Sometimes colored shell flakes were used in reverse glass art. Again as you know this was all done from the backside. You would carefully to remove glass from frame and have a hi rez flatbed scan of art. then imported into adobe illustrator software and have the gold artwork traced- then sent to a silk screen maker. The other way is to get drafting mylar, thin best test brand rubber cement and pour a tablespoon of the solution onto the glass surface, then place the mylar on top and and use a thin cardboard squeegee to spread the glue under all four corners, at this point you would use rapidiograph ink pens to trace the art. then the art would be sent to a silk screen maker. you could probably use a good digital camera mounted directly above above at a 90 angle and then have it scaled to the right size.
It sounds complicated to me! If you are ever successful at re-creating this art, please let me know!