Brooch
2007-2008 (made)
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This brooch is part of a series of enamelled iron wire brooches begun in 2000. For these pieces Dittlmann does not start from drawings, but allows the dense structure and layered geometric patterning to develop as she works. The result is a supreme combination of delicacy and strength, the complexity yet regularity of the forms reminiscent of structures within nature. Both the construction and the enamelling are highly laborious processes, with over fifty coats of the enamel being separately applied and fired.
Bettina Dittlmann trained as a silversmith at the Staatliche Berufsfachschule für Glas und Schmuck in Neugablonz, and as a goldsmith at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Munich under Professors Hermann Jünger and Otto Künzli.
Bettina Dittlmann trained as a silversmith at the Staatliche Berufsfachschule für Glas und Schmuck in Neugablonz, and as a goldsmith at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Munich under Professors Hermann Jünger and Otto Künzli.
object details
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| Materials and Techniques | Iron binding wire and enamel |
| Brief Description | Brooch, enamelled iron, Bettina Dittmann, Germany, 2007-8 |
| Physical Description | Dome-like structure of densely-layered repeating shapes made of iron wire covered in matt, granular red enamel. |
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| Marks and Inscriptions | Unmarked |
| Summary | This brooch is part of a series of enamelled iron wire brooches begun in 2000. For these pieces Dittlmann does not start from drawings, but allows the dense structure and layered geometric patterning to develop as she works. The result is a supreme combination of delicacy and strength, the complexity yet regularity of the forms reminiscent of structures within nature. Both the construction and the enamelling are highly laborious processes, with over fifty coats of the enamel being separately applied and fired. Bettina Dittlmann trained as a silversmith at the Staatliche Berufsfachschule für Glas und Schmuck in Neugablonz, and as a goldsmith at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Munich under Professors Hermann Jünger and Otto Künzli. |
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| Accession Number | M.30-2009 |
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| record created | June 24, 2009 |
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