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On display at V&A South Kensington
Jewellery, Rooms 91, The William and Judith Bollinger Gallery

Vineta II

Necklace
1998 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Andrea Wippermann trained at the influential East German jewellery school Burg Giebichenstein in Halle and currently is Professor of jewellery at the University of Wismar. Of her use of cast forms David Watkins has written that she ‘tests the process of casting as a vehicle for expressive gesture … to some extent [she] revisits metaphors from post-war years, its battered, mechanistic forms hint at personages and hierarchies. They are partway between figuration and abstraction…’

This necklace is one of forty-five pieces of jewellery given to the V&A from the collection of the late Louise Klapisch.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleVineta II (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Oxidised silver, labradorite and moonstone on a textile cord
Brief description
Necklace, silver, moonstone, labradorite and nylon, designed and made by Andrea Wippermann, Germany, 1998
Physical description
Five oxidised silver pendants attached to a grey nylon cord are linked by a thinner brown cord to a string of labradorite beads. The pendants are roughly finished and their diverse forms suggest a functional purpose from a remote industrial past. The central pendant consists of two hollow arc-shaped segments of triangular section; to one side is a smaller footed piece with two cylinders and a central chimney, and beyond a wider cylinder with a conical top which is set with a moonstone; to the other side are two taller pendants of similar form which appear to have been made as one piece then cut vertically in two.
Dimensions
  • Necklace as worn width: 172mm
  • Necklace as worn height: 365mm
  • Necklace as worn depth: 15mm
Marks and inscriptions
unmarked
Credit line
The Louise Klapisch Collection, given by Suzanne Selvi
Summary
Andrea Wippermann trained at the influential East German jewellery school Burg Giebichenstein in Halle and currently is Professor of jewellery at the University of Wismar. Of her use of cast forms David Watkins has written that she ‘tests the process of casting as a vehicle for expressive gesture … to some extent [she] revisits metaphors from post-war years, its battered, mechanistic forms hint at personages and hierarchies. They are partway between figuration and abstraction…’

This necklace is one of forty-five pieces of jewellery given to the V&A from the collection of the late Louise Klapisch.
Bibliographic reference
Collection
Accession number
M.56-2014

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Record createdJune 11, 2014
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