01.01.23
Schmuckmuseum Pforzheim
The Schmuckmuseum in Pforzheim, Germany is a museum dedicated to the history and art of jewelry making. It showcases a wide range of jewelry from different eras and styles, including precious pieces from the Renaissance and Art Deco periods. The museum also features interactive exhibits and educational programs that highlight the craftsmanship and design of jewelry. Visitors can learn about the history of jewelry making in Pforzheim, which has been a center of jewelry production for centuries, and see the tools and techniques used by master craftsmen. The Schmuckmuseum is a must-visit destination for jewelry enthusiasts and anyone interested in the history and art of this fascinating field.
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11.03.23
Of the Passion for Travelling and Collecting
Eva and Peter Herion, a collector couple from Pforzheim, had a deep love for travel and exploring cultures around the world.
Through their journeys to Africa, the Far East, and the South Seas, they amassed an impressive collection of adornments from diverse regions, reflecting their fascination with the art of jewelry making.
Recently, the Schmuckmuseum Pforzheim has inaugurated a new presentation of a portion of the Herion collection, showcasing these unique pieces in a broader context. The museum has now expanded its exhibition to include a vast selection of objects from the Herion’s repository, providing a comprehensive view of their passion for collecting.
The exhibition not only features the exquisite pieces collected by the Herion couple, but it also includes accompanying photos that illustrate their travels and their fascination with the art of jewelry. With this exhibition, the Jewellery Museum celebrates the couple’s remarkable collection and their legacy in the world of jewelry collecting.
11.03.23
Perfection and passion
130 years of the Wellendorff Manufacture
The art of jewelry making, whose lines of tradition in technology and design reach back to antiquity, interpreted in a modern way and refined further – this is what the jewellery manufacturer Wellendorff stands for.
In 2023, the family business will celebrate its 130th anniversary. To mark the occasion, Schmuckmuseum Pforzheim is looking back at the individual decades since 1893. For each decade, a precious object from the Wellendorff company that exemplifies its time will be on display. As interventions woven into the historical collection, visitors can trace the history of the manufactory during their tour.
04.12.22
Margit Jäschke
Kairos
10 December 2022 through 16 April 2023
The artist Margit Jäschke describes herself as a wanderer between art worlds. Transcending the boundaries of common genres, such as installation, painting, sculpture and art jewelry, she has created an oeuvre that is in a league of its own.
Purposefully blurring the distinction between wearable pieces of jewelry and autonomous works of art, she emphasizes details that evoke different associations in different viewers. The exhibition will be showcasing the multifaceted and prize-winning oeuvre created by Margit Jäschke over the course of the past 30 years and will be accompanied by a catalogue published by Arnoldsche Art Publishers.
25.08.22
pforzheim revisited Berlin
Creating contemporary jewelry using manufactory-style techniques
25 November 2022 through 26 February 2023
Embossing, pressing and guilloché engraving are techniques employed in manufactory-style jewelry production. Within the context of the “Pforzheim Revisited Berlin” semester project initiated in 2010, students of the Jewelry and Everyday Objects Design course at Pforzheim University are experiencing a new lease on life by using these techniques to create contemporary jewelry.
The project has been made possible by a collaboration with the German Museum of Technology in Berlin and the Technical Museum of Pforzheim’s Jewelry and Watchmaking Industries, with support from the C. Hafner company. The exhibition will be spotlighting the works created by the participants of the scholarship programme of the past twelve years.
25.06.22
elegantly meaningful
signs and symbols in jewelry and printed works
25 June 2022 through 6 November 2022
When we think of language, jewelry is not the first thing that comes to mind. However, jewelry is a precious manifestation of many and varied systems of signs and symbols – as precious as the message itself. Jewelry serves as a means of communication, and hence is quite literally a “carrier of meaning.”
The Jewelry Museum has been inspired by this aspect to mark the 500th anniversary of Johannes Reuchlin’s death with an exhibition of calligraphy to highlight the humanist’s appreciation of languages and, concomitantly, of tolerance and peaceful understanding.
05.03.22
exotic formosa
Jewelry and Objects, created by Ruan Weng Mong
5 March 2022 through 6 June 2022
The goldsmith and sculptor Ruan Weng Mong is a mediator between different worlds. Born in Taiwan, trained as a goldsmith in Germany and having served as the President of the Goldsmiths’ Guild in Nuremberg, he is at home on several continents. His artworks elegantly wed his sensibility for materials and appreciation of gemstones and metal to clear-cut shapes that connote both a European and Asian formal idiom.
16.07.2021
DELICATE LIKE IRON
Jewelry from a private collection
16 July 2021 through 6 February 2022
Simply put, jewelry of the 1960s and 1970s was revolutionary. If the 1950s were demure and controlled, the 1960s became an era of youthful rebellion and radical cultural change – and a new style of jewelry was part of that zeitgeist.
Rock and roll, the Vietnam War, the Kennedy assassinations, the civil rights and women’s movements, the widespread use of hallucinogenic drugs and the concept of free love are all associated with these tumultuous decades.
From space-age plastic hoop earrings to the hippies’ beaded necklaces, jewelry expressed individuality, nonconformity and the aesthetic, political, and intellectual values of the person who wore it.
27.03.2021
SIMPLY BRILLIANT
Artist-Jewelrs of the 1960s and 1970s
27 March 2021 through 27 June 2021
Simply put, jewelry of the 1960s and 1970s was revolutionary. If the 1950s were demure and controlled, the 1960s became an era of youthful rebellion and radical cultural change – and a new style of jewelry was part of that zeitgeist.
Rock and roll, the Vietnam War, the Kennedy assassinations, the civil rights and women’s movements, the widespread use of hallucinogenic drugs and the concept of free love are all associated with these tumultuous decades.
From space-age plastic hoop earrings to the hippies’ beaded necklaces, jewelry expressed individuality, nonconformity and the aesthetic, political, and intellectual values of the person who wore it.
18.07.2020
Max Ernst
The Würth Collection
18 July 2020 through 17 January 2021
In the Würth Collection, Max Ernst occupies a central artistic position. A unique collection of books and graphics constitutes the core of the Max Ernst section, making this surrealist’s almost unsurpassably diverse, seemingly boundless visual universe experientially accessible, starting from his very first creations all the way through to his fantastic later works.
The exhibition’s focus is on a selection from this collection, complemented by several of the artist’s sculptures, as well as by pieces from the Schmuckmuseum Pforzheim’s collection displayed alongside the graphics and entering into dialog with them. Max Ernst accepted things as they appeared and took a very associative, unconfined approach, something that opened up numerous possibilities for interplay between his works and jewelry.
19.10.2019
A newly ordered world
Treasures from the Napoleonic Era
19 October 2019 through 1 March 2020
Napoleon Bonaparte fundamentally changed the political geography of Europe, radically and lastingly transforming the continent’s civic landscape within a very short timespan. 2019 marked the anniversary of his birthday: 250 years have gone by since the birth of the French general, politician and emperor.
In 2019, the Jewelry Museum featured two future-oriented personalities. After the “Unconfined horizons – Treasures Retracing Humboldt’s Travel Routes” exhibition about Humboldt, the show entitled “A Newly Ordered World – Treasures from the Napoleonic Era” spotlighted Napoleon’s influence, as well as the jewelry and fashion of his era, which were undergoing major changes.
The 150 exhibits included pieces created by Nitot, Napoleon’s court jewelr, numerous pictures illustrating how Napoleon presented himself and had himself depicted, as well as documents and both utilitarian and luxury items that provided visitors with an impression of his epoch.