ABOUT
In my workshop I create vessels made of silver, bronze, aluminium and the brass alloy tombac. Playing with forms, aesthetics, simplicity and functionality are an essential part of my work.
By request of customers I design and manufacture church silver, trophies and silverware. All objects are made in my workshop with high quality craftsmanship.
CV
2022-2025 Cooporation with Meister 1881, Zürich 2011-2019 Cooporation with Koch & Bergfeld Corpus, Bremen (D), 2016 Lecture and silversmithing workshop at Leksands Folkhögskola, Leksand (S), 2009 Artist in Residence in Vallauris (F), 2004 Visiting Artist in the Gold- and Silversmithing Class at Canberra School of Art, (AUS), since 1999 studio in Lübeck (D), 1997 appointed as “Meisterschüler”, 1994-99 Academy of Fine Arts Nürnberg (D), class for Gold- and Silversmithing,1991-94 Silversmith at Georg Jensen and Allan Scharff in Copenhagen (DK), 1987-1991 Staatliche Zeichenakademie Hanau (D), apprenticeship as silversmith, 1967 born in Konstanz (D)
AWARDS
2023 Danner Honorary Award, 2021 Finalist LOEWE Craft Prize, 2018 HammerClub Award, first prize, 2015 “Bayerischer Staatspreis” (bavarian state award), 2007 2. Prize Cutlery, 15. Silvertriennal, 2002 “Bayerischer Staatspreis” (bavarian state award), 2001 2. Hessischer Staatspreis (hessian state award), 2000 Award of the “Paul Brockhaus Foundation”, Lübeck (D), 1999 Award of the “Justus Brinkmann Society” Hamburg (D) 1998 “Bayerischer Staatspreis” bavarian state award for young designers) 1996 Award of the Academy of Fine Arts, Nürnberg (D)
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg (DE), Kunstgewerbemuseum, Berlin
St. Annen-Museum, Lübeck(DE), Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt (DE), Zilver-Museum Sterckshof, Antwerpen (B) (Vic Janssens Sammlung), Museum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Dortmund (DE), Die Neue Sammlung, München (DE), Kolumba, Art museum of the Archdiocese of Cologne (DE), Badisches Landesmuseum, Karlsruhe
EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)
2026 Metal Vessels 2.0, Galerie Rosemarie Jäger - Impuls Paula, Haus im Schluh Worpswede 2023 Jewelry and Objects, Galerie Handwerk, Munich - Danner Prize 2023, Heiliggeistkirche, Landshut 2022 Collectible Design Fair Brussels, with Valcke Art Gallery, Brussels - LOEWE Craft Prize, Seoul Museum of Craft Art, Seoul (KR) Masters of Modernism, Galerie Handwerk, Munich - Stories from Earth and Heaven, Valcke Art Gallery, Ghent (BE) - Silver Triennial, Goldschmiedehaus, Hanau 2021 Galerie AC Noffke Dependance (with Otto Beckmann), Lübeck - Craft at its best, Annual Exhibition of the BAK-SH, Ostholstein Museum, Eutin 2020 Artistic Creation, Robbe&Berking Classics Shipyard, Flensburg , 2019 Lighting, Vases and containers,
Exhibitions at the IHM with Uta Götze and Sassa Held, Munich 2018 ; Favorites, HammerClub, Goldschmiedehaus, Hanau; The Jug, BKV, Munich , 2017; Friedrich Becker Prize, Goldschmiedehaus, Hanau; Forged, Galerie Handwerk, Munich; Danner Prize, Villa Stuck, Munich, 2015; Auguste Papendieck Prize, Focke Museum, Bremen, 2014; Solo Exhibition, Galerie LOD, Stockholm (S), 2011 ; The Culture of Drinking, Galerie Handwerk, Munich
2010 Corpus, solo exhibition, Galeria Reverso, Lisbon (Portugal) , 2009 Still Life, Galerie Handwerk, Munich, 2008 East Meets West (with Jan Wege and Bohhyung Koh), Galerie Rosemarie Jäger, Hochheim (Main) , 2007 15th Silver Triennial - Danske Sølvsmede, Museet på Koldinghus, Kolding (Denmark) , 2006 Espace Art et Objets, Lausanne (with Berthold Hoffmann), 2004 Beaker, Galerie Rosemarie Jäger, Hochheim (Main) - German Silver after Bauhaus, Vic Janssens
Collection, Silver Museum Sterckshof, Antwerp - Container, Galerie Bilk, Canberra (Australia) , 2003; Galerie Rosemarie Jäger (with Anja Schönmeyer and Dörte Behn), Hochheim am Main - Metal forms, Galerie Handwerk, Munich
2002 Greetings from Lübeck, Galerie Metallum, Stockholm - Spoon, Galerie Rosemarie Jäger, Hochheim (Main)