Hermann Jünger Jewellery - Found Objects

Hermann Jünger Jewellery – Found Objects The exhibition of the significant German jewelry maker, Hermann Jünger (1928–2005), organized by the Belgian museum of design in Gent, offers an interesting insight into the oeuvre of one of the first representatives of the new approach to jewelry and the trade in general. Hermann Jünger was brought up in the spirit of the traditional jewelry craft when a jeweler was “solely” a precise technician who brings the ideas of the others to life. His aim was to try to point at interconnection between human mind, in the form of an idea, and the production itself, when the idea is realized, via re-discovering medieval and Renaissance texts (Schedula Diversarium Artium and writings by Benvenuto Cellini). In his work, Jünger was a perfect representative of an artist-craftsman who abandons the efforts to suppress the signs of production to the detriment of an artistic intention. His jewels thus can evoke the impression of an unfinished, rough work. Jünger’s activities of a teacher and at the same time inventor of original jewelry employing non-traditional materials made him the most influential 20th-century personality in the field of jewelry design. Hermann Jünger Jewellery – Found Objects Design museum Gent, Belgium 8 November 2008 – 25 January 2009