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Art as Jewellery

Already sporadically at the end of the 19th century, but increasingly in the course of the 20th century, fine artists like Jean Cocteau, Pablo Picasso, Max Ernst, Salvador Dalí, Georges Braque, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Max Ernst and Alberto Giacometti occupied themselves with the theme of jewellery design and designed jewellery themselves. Since these works were mostly created in the private sphere for friends or relatives and were ascribed to the artisan domain, they are often omitted in the catalogues and indices of works for these artists.

Jewellery as a Quote: Often motives chosen by the artists were reproduced on a small scale and made of traditional jewellery materials, so that the pieces of jewellery appeared as "miniature"-versions of already existing works.

Alexander Calder, Arnaldo Pomodoro, Giò Pomodoro, Lucio Fontana, Pol Bury, César, Man Ray, Imi Knoebel, C.O. Paeffgen

Jewellery as works of their own: Not always the artists' pieces of jewellery are direct quotations of their own works. Pieces of jewellery exist which are designed by the artists without transferring already existing works to the small scale. Although these artists used their design-principles from the fine arts, the pieces of jewellery are relatively independent works.

Dieter Roth, Carsten Höller, Paola Pivi

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