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Contemporary gold- and silversmithing encompasses a vast range. Increasingly, a daring, (self-)critical, and inventive scene is edging its way to the fore, focusing on challenging the innovative expansion of classical forms and motifs of jewelry, vessels, and hollowware. Purpose, function, and our normative understanding of beauty are placed on a new footing through experiments with materials and performative stagings. Socially relevant consid...

In 1924, five young Italians founded the Studio Ars et Labor Industrie Riunite (SALIR) with the aim of modernizing the ancient art of glass-decorating: Giuseppe D'Alpaos, Decio Toso, Guglielmo Barbini, Dino Martens, and Gino Francesconi. In 1928, the emergence of Franz Pelzel, a Bohemian glass engraver, and Guido Balsamo Stella, an all-round artist, marked the start of the production for which SALIR is most remembered today: contemporary glass...

The Frenchman Claude Champy (*1944) brings together man and the cosmos in his ceramics. In his studio, mechanical, geological, and chemical processes fuse to form a ceramic total work of art-guided by the barely visible yet influential human gesture. Despite the ceramicist wishing to capture the great forces of the universe in his work, he consciously consigns this part to trial and error, to an intentional loss of control, relying instead on...

For over 142, 000 years, beads have played an important role around the world as the oldest form of personal adornment. Joyce J. Scott has revolutionized and transformed the potential of the ubiquitous bead as a relevant, contemporary art form. For over fifty-one years she has devoted her aesthetic practice to waking up the world, expanding beadwork's boundaries, with powerful in-your-face social commentary. While addressing society's ills, he...

Appreciation of the works by the German artist couple Annelies and Fred Stelzig from Besigheim in the discipline of art made for architecture has been a long time coming. To mark the 100th anniversary of them both, the town of Besigheim has made this its task. For the large retrospective, a publication is launched that focuses on the incredible breadth of their production for the very first time. Waiting or be discovered alongside wall ceramic...

William Underhill (1933-2022) was one of the great talents and enigmas of the modern American studio craft movement. He became an acclaimed master of lost-wax casting, pursuing the sculptural potential of bronze vessels with unrivaled persistence and virtuosity. He "molded and scratched the wax until the final bronze surface embodied all of the mystical connotations of a ritualistic object, " said Lee Nordness in his groundbreaking Objects USA...

The tubular steel furniture by Marcel Breuer (1902-1981) is considered an outstanding design object of the twentieth century. Yet widely unknown is the development of the first prototype to its early series production. Breuer's fellow compatriot Kálmán Lengyel (1900-1945), to whom this comprehensive publication is dedicated, played a significant role in this. In 1927, they founded the company Standard Möbel together, in order to organize the s...

For almost 300 years, pocket watches were important accessories for the nobility and middle-classes. In order to store the watches securely and stylishly, artfully designed stands that matched the wearer's interior were developed and were an impressive reflection of the history of European art and culture from the Baroque to the early twentieth century. The stands ranged from miniature versions of grandfather and mantle clocks to one-off works...

Johann Joachim Kaendler (1706-1775) is regarded as one of the most prominent personalities in the 313-year history of the Meissen porcelain manufactory. His first three workshop employees, Johann Friedrich Eberlein (1696-1749), Johann Gottlieb Ehder (1716/7-1750), and Peter Reinicke (1711-1768), contributed significantly to the appearance of Meissen porcelain in the first half of the eighteenth century. The output of the workshop is the focus ...

The German silversmith Paula Strauss (1894-1943) was a pivotal figure in shaping the "Golden Twenties" and the creative decades of the Bauhaus. Even early on, her jewelry objects and handmade items of silverware were reviewed with praise in the specialist press, and national and international exhibitions followed. In joining the design studio of the silverware factory Peter Bruckmann & Söhne, Heilbronn, in 1925, an unparalleled career began as...

Gepolsterte Sitzgegenstände sind uns allen vertraut als mehr oder weniger beständige Begleiter des Alltags. Polster vermitteln Geborgenheit und versprechen Komfort, behaupten oder schaffen Status und erzählen Geschichte(n). Über ihr Innenleben machen wir uns wenig Gedanken. Dabei ist ein Einblick ins Innere der Stühle und Sessel eine Reise in Geheimnisse, in geschnürte und gefederte Konstruktionen, die sich als unbekannte handwerkliche Meister...

In Kari Steihaug's art, what is overseen plays a major role. The things that have been set aside, unfinished projects, objects that are worn or frayed are all solicitously brought into the light. This is also evident in the materials used by the textile artist: Steihaug's works feature worn out woollen garments as well as unfinished knitwear. By embracing imperfection, her creations become a counterbalance to the galloping consumer culture of ...

In the form of THE GLOVE Deutsches Ledermuseum is tracing the varied cultural history of an accessory whose importance is often underestimated. The sheer diversity of this article of clothing is demonstrated by means of selected exhibits, from warming Inuit mittens, boxing gloves, disposable rubber or latex gloves, and Pontifical gloves, to models by renowned designers such as Marc Jacobs and Dries Van Noten. As a love token, a gauntlet in a ...

Seit 1965 richten die Gesellschaft für Goldschmiedekunst e.V. und das Deutsche Goldschmiedehaus Hanau die Silbertriennale International zur Förderung der zeitgenössischen Silberschmiedekunst aus. Der 20. Wettbewerb beweist die Vielfalt der Arbeiten auf hohem Niveau: 121 Silberschmiede und Silberschmiedinnen aus 21 Ländern reichten Gerät oder freie Arbeiten ein. Es stehen nicht nur handwerklich-künstlerische Aspekte im Vordergrund, eine Vielzah...

Per Fronth is one of Norway's most distinctive contemporary artists, dynamically redefining the relationship between paintingand photography in influential and innovative works. Painting with photography as his raw material, Fronth's pictorial universeis captivating, bold, controversial, and seductive.Central to Fronth's overall artistic practice are the challenging aspects of the human condition. Fronth produces large-formatartworks in series...

Alongside Erasmus of Rotterdam, Johannes Reuchlin (1455-1522) is one of the most important European humanists whose works marked the transition from the Middle Ages to the modern era. The year 2022 marks the 500th anniversary of the Pforzheim-born jurist, Hebraist, and religious philosopher's death, cause indeed for an exhibition and publication to bring jewelry, writings, and language into a stimulating dialogue and to offer new meanings to t...

The Museum of Applied Arts (MAK) in Vienna holds a unique collection of Italian maiolica from the fifteenth to the eighteenthcentury, which is now being published almost in its entirety for the very first time. Maiolica tableware, Italy's luxury export, spread to the courts of northern Europe from the early sixteenth century. Today, the MAK's holdings from former imperial, ecclesiastical, aristocratic, and private ownership enter into a dialog...

The goldsmith and art dealer Johann Karl Bossard (1846-1914) is regarded as one of the key figures of Historicism in Switzerland. This publication focuses for the first time on not only the workshop's exceptional production and signature style butalso the appropriation and adaptation of historical paradigms as well as Bossard's international network. The productionof jewelry, cutlery, weapons, and commissions for the Church are particularly ex...

Der italienische Goldschmied der "Paduaner Schule" Giampaolo Babetto ist berühmt für seine Schmuckkunst - geometrisch klare Formen, die zu raffinierten Gebilden von außerordentlicher Perfektion und Schönheit angeordnet sind. Doch das vielseitige Spektrum des Künstlers umfasst ebenso Möbeldesign, Silberarbeiten, Skulpturen, liturgisches Gerät und Architektur - selbst seine Entwurfszeichnungen haben autonomen Charakter mit künstlerischem Wert.Ne...

Die Fotografin Monika Rittershaus gilt als inspirierende Interpretin des heutigen Musiktheaters in all seiner Vielfalt, Opulenzund Dramatik, aber auch in all seiner menschlichen Tiefe, Einzigartigkeit und Wahrhaftigkeit. Sie blickt als höchst sensibleBeobachterin auf das Bühnengeschehen und entdeckt leise, berührende und randseitige Momente. Individuell und entschiedenzeigt sie in klarer Bildsprache Werke prägender Regisseur:innen wie Achim Fr...