Jewellery 1840-1940: Highlights from the Schmuckmuseum Pforzheim

Description

Examples of distinctive jewellery design as superlative works of art range from the mid-19th century, when the ideas of the romantic movement informed jewellery design, over Historicism in the latter half of the century and the extravagant jewels created by Art Nouveau and Jugenstil artists to the astringent forms of Art Deco and New Objectivity. These one-of-a-kind works of art are accompanied by typical contemporaneous examples of industrially produced jewellery. The superb creations of Jules Wiese and Froment-Meurice are presented in this book together with historicising jewellery from the house of Castellani and Falize as well as jewellery by Ernesto Rinzi and Carlo Giuliano. The period before and after 1900 is represented by gems by Rene Lalique and Georges Fouquet, Vever, Gautrait and Gaillard, Lukas Wilhelm von Cranach and Georg Kleeman, Wiener Werkstatten and exponents of the English Arts and Crafts movement. Art jewellery of the 1920s and 1930s is documented by the works of Jean Fouquet, Rene Boivin, Jean Despres, Johann Michael Wilm, Elisabeth Treskow, Theodor Wende and George Hunt amongst others.