Daniel Kruger
Subtitle: zwischen Natur und Künstlichkeit : Schmuck 1974-2014 = between nature and artifice : jewellery 1974-2014
By: Herausgeber = editor, Daniel Kruger ; Autoren = authors, Dr. Jorunn Veiteberg, Monika Brugger, Sabine Epple M.A., Cornelie Holzach, Dr. Christianne Weber-Stöber, Dr. René Pingen ; Übersetzung = translator, Andreas Bredenfeld, Berlin, Peter Kripps, the Wordwrights, Oslo, Karin Lauer (Between Nature and Artifice)
Contributors: Epple, Sabine, writer of preface; Holzach, Cornelie, writer of preface; Weber, Christianne, 1957- writer of preface; Pingen, René, writer of preface; Bredenfeld, Andreas, translator; Cripps, Peter, translator; Lauer, Karin translator; Veiteberg, Jorunn, 1955-; Veiteberg, Jorunn, 1955-; Brugger, Monika, 1958-; Brugger, Monika, 1958-; Grassi Museum für angewandte Kunst; Schmuckmuseum Pforzheim; Deutsches Goldschmiedehaus; SM's - Stedelijk Museum 's-Hertogenbosch
Publisher: Arnoldsche
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Stuttgart
Language: ger
Number of pages: 263
ISBN-13: 9783897904118
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Exhibitions; Artist-designed jewelry; Jewelry
Other titles: Zwischen Natur und Künstlichkeit :; Between nature and artifice :
Description: "Experimental, unconventional and individual: an irrepressible curiosity and boundless creativity in dealing with materials, forms and techniques are all hallmarks of the work by the jewellery artist Daniel Kruger. The current publication documents the contemporaneity of the diverse possibilities of his expression and opens up a pictorial world of aesthetic pleasure. Very rarely does a jewellery artist manage to find new pictorial worlds of such a personal nature during the course of their creative work so freely and unencumbered as Daniel Kruger (born 1951, South Africa). His experiments with the most diverse materials, decoration, forms and structures testify to an exuberant creativity for which he was honoured with the renowned Herbert Hofmann Award for Art Jewellery in 1987 and 2005. Daniel Kruger uses found objects of every kind and quotes historical forms and decoration. The unusual combinations of materials as well as new interpretations of techniques used in handcraft and textile work lend his jewellery pieces ever surprising new perspectives and aesthetic pleasure as well as a decidedly erotic quality, as he himself puts it. The works from the last forty years presented in this publication not only illustrate Daniel Kruger's curiosity with unconventional techniques and materials; they are also an expression of his awareness of nature and artificiality, history and tales, tradition and present: sometimes ironic, at times restrained, but frequently also opulent and sensual."--Publisher's description.
Notes: Published on the occasion of exhibitions held at Grassi Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Leipzig, December 11, 2014-March 8, 2015 ; Schmuckmuseum, Pforzheim, April 27-June 28, 2015 ; Deutsches Goldschmiedehaus, Hanau, July 10-September 27, 2015 ; Stedelijk Museum, 's-Hertogenbosch, October 17, 2015-January 24, 2016.

Includes bibliographical references.

Text in German and English.
Table of contents: title: Vorwort = Foreword / Sabine Epple, Cornelie Holzach, Christianne Weber-Stober, René Pingen; title: Zwischen Natur und Künstlichkeit = Between nature and artifice / Daniel Kruger; title: Für Daniel = For Daniel / Monika Brugger; title: Augen-Freuden = Visual pleasures / Jorunn Veiteberg.