Elisabeth Defner Man - Nature - Cosmos Jewellery and Objects /anglais/allemand - Couverture rigide

Bollmann/schrage

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 3897903539 ISBN 13 : 9783897903531

Editeur : Arnoldsche Art Publishers, 2012

Synopsis

• The first comprehensive and lavishly illustrated monography of the Austrian jewellery artist Elisabeth J. Gu. Defner
• A brillant presentation of all groups of her work: Modelling, Frutti di Mare, Stones and Pebbles, Insects, Magnetic Jewellery, Wands and Black Walnuts, to mention only a few
• Presents the unique work of Elisabeth Defner - jewellery that treads a previously unknown path: a unity of man, nature and cosmos
• With contributions by Karl Bollmann, Margit Hart, Birgit Wiesinger, Adolf Holl, Reinhard Gutmann, Desirée Müller, Renate Slavik and an interview by Sylvia Ferino-Padgen and Christian Beaufort-Spontin
• Text in English and German

Since the 1960s, Elisabeth Defner has been one of Austria’s most prominent jewellery artists. Nowadays her works are displayed in museums in e.g. Vienna, Graz, Pforzheim, Cologne, Prague and London. Defner sees jewellery not merely as an aesthetic matter, but also as a form of complementary healthcare for body, soul and spirit. The energy radiated from the metals and stones is in holistic harmony with the forms of the jewellery and can bring about an inner transformation of the wearer.

Brooches, earrings, rings or pendants are combined with moulded plant leaves, so that the beauty of the jewellery can merge symbolically with the magical effect of the plant.Her understanding of art is reflected in a famous remark by the German Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer: ‘Truly art is firmly fixed in Nature. He who can extract her thence, he alone has her’.

Text in English and German.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Elisabeth Defner is one of Austria's most prominent jewellery designers. Since her jewellery design studies at the Vienna Academy of Applied Arts at the beginning of the 1960s she has been working as an independent artist in Vienna, until 1976 cooperating with the jewellery artist Helfried Kodre in a workshop community. In 1967 she won the Bavarian State Award in Munich, in 1970 the Diamond-Award. Today her works are displayed in museums in Vienna, Graz, Pforzheim, Cologne, Prague and Edinburgh. For Elisabeth Defner- who since 1990 bears the second name of Jesus- jewellery isn't merely an aesthetic matter, but also a form of complementary healthcare for body, soul and spirit. The energy radiated from the metals and stones is in holistic harmony with the forms of the jewellery and can bring about an inner transformation of the wearer. Brooches, earrings, rings or pendants are combined with moulded gingko leaves, so that the beauty of the jewellery can merge idealistically with the magical effect of the plant. Defner's magnetic jewellery of recent years also presents itself in the context of the incorporation of the hidden power of nature, with magnetic boxes and objects like magic wands and chess pieces.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Arnoldsche Art Publishers
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3897903539
• ISBN 13: 9783897903531
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 248
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible