Friedrich Becker Kinetic Jewellery

by Becker, Friedrich

• ISBN13: 9783925369766
• ISBN10: 3925369767
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-01-25
• Publisher: Arnoldsche Verlagsanstalt
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Summary

Movement came to be the main theme of Friedrich Becker's artistic work. In the early 1960s, he began to create the first kinetic jewellery objects that remain constantly in motion due to natural body movements. Becker is the inventor of kinetic jewellery. The ideas behind his small sculptures, having the intention of a constructivist language of forms, are also translated into his large-scale sculptures. This documentation is the first survey of the many-sided oeuvre of this significant artist: all areas of his work are represented from the 1950s to his unexpected death in May 1997. Text in English and German

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. 9
Excerpts from letters written on the death of Friedrich Beckers	p. 10
Not everyone's jewellery - the goldsmith Friedrich Becker	p. 14
Illustrations: jewellery
Cabochon stones	p. 38
Spring-clipped stones	p. 40
Ring sculptures	p. 54
Variable jewellery: "On the path to kinetics"	p. 58
Illustrations: variable jewellery	p. 68
Kinetic jewellery	p. 88
Illustrations: kinetic jewellery	p. 114
The finger rings of Friedrich Becker: Towards a new vision	p. 152
Illustrations jewellery
Gold wire	p. 168
Two-point setting	p. 172
Jewellery with precious stones	p. 175
Only gold jewellery	p. 184
Jewellery in stainless steel	p. 194
Silver plate	p. 222
Kinetic objects	p. 238
Illustrations: kinetic objects	p. 254
Biography	p. 286
Bibliography	p. 298
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