Ebbe Weiss-Weingart

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Ebbe Weiss-Weingart (born February 20, 1923 in Nuremberg ; † November 13, 2019 ) was a German goldsmith and jewelry designer.

life and work

Weiss-Weingart was born in Nuremberg in 1923 as the younger of two daughters of the couple Karl Erhard (1877–1950) and Anne Betty Weiss (1892–1970). Her father was a director at IG Farben and a passionate art collector, so the young Ebbe came into contact with fine and decorative art at an early age and decided to pursue an artistic career. After studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg (1939–1943), she attended the master school for goldsmiths in Munich (1943–1945) and passed the master's examination in 1948. After the end of the war she settled on Lake Constance and opened her own studio. She has lived in Salem since 1954 and worked there in her workshop until 2015.

Gold was in short supply in the 1950s, so she initially worked with brass, wood, colored glass rivers and enamel techniques . Already in those years she was represented at the La Triennale di Milano in Milan in 1951 and was awarded the silver medal for three works.

  • Relief, gilt bronze, 1958

  • Bangle

  • Frog, Frog with Gold Swing, Little Frog, 2010–2014

  • Two set Greek coins

  • Two gold brooches

From 1956 she concentrated on brooches, necklaces, earrings and bracelets made of gold, the unconventional designs of which mostly appear as hatching, furrows, folds, etching or breaks. The surfaces often appear wrinkled or barked. In addition to casting and chiselling techniques, she also achieved these new effects by welding on the finest gold chips. The experiments were groundbreaking and were unprecedented in the prevailing constructive conception of goldsmithing. "She gave the amorphous metal something alive, as the precious gold took on the impression of crumpled paper, of something organically grown."

With the testing of various working techniques using plastic, ostrich egg , lapis lazuli , corals , precious stones, Keshi and Biwa pearls as color accents, she showed trend-setting ways for modern jewelry development. In addition to masks and figurative motifs, especially depictions of people and animals, she also created pieces with an ironic-bizarre undertone. She has been using Chinese jade in her jewelry since the 1990s .

"A piece of my soul lives in all of my work, it is self-communications that flow as dreams from within"

- Ebbe Weiss-Weingart : Museum in the Prediger Schwäbisch Gmünd

Ebbe Weiss-Weingart gave the city of Hanau 250 pieces of jewelry from the years 1947 to 1998 for the German goldsmith's house as a contribution to the collection started in 1960, which today provides a representative overview of national and international goldsmithing after 1945 with well over 900 pieces of jewelry and table utensils. The goldsmith Ebbe Weiss-Weingart was represented at many exhibitions in well-known domestic and foreign museums. a. in Helsinki, Paris, Tokyo and the USA.

honors and awards

  • 1951 - Silver medal at the La Triennale di Milano in Milan
  • 1960 - State Prize for Crafts of the State of Baden-Württemberg
  • 1963 - Hessian State Prize for German Crafts
  • 1967 - State Prize for Crafts of the State of Baden-Württemberg
  • 1978 - Golden Ring of Honor from the Society for Goldsmithing
  • State Prize of the State of Bavaria

Publications

  • Christianne Weber-Stöber, Sabine Runde, Peter Schmitt, Christoph Engel: Ebbe Weiss-Weingart 70 years of jewelry . Arnoldsche, 2017, ISBN 978-3-89790-509-2 .
  • Christianne Weber-Stöber: Silver Triennial International: 18th worldwide competition. Arnoldsche Verlag, ISBN 978-3-89790-474-3 .
  • Municipality of Hanau: Ebbe Weiss-Weingart 1947–1998. Collection of the German goldsmith's house. 2006, ISBN 3-926011-45-9 .
  • Andrea Richter-Mahlo, Ingo Nentwig: Fish eats plankton, jewelry from Ebbe Weiss-Weingart. 1993-1998 . Book accompanying the exhibition Fish Eats Plankton from December 5, 1998 to March 28, 1999 in the Grassimuseum Leipzig. Museum of Arts and Crafts, 1998, ISBN 3-932900-07-3 .
  • Pforzheim jewelry museum: Ebbe Weiss-Weingart, jewelry and objects 1946–1993 . Book accompanying the exhibition. Pforzheim 1993.
  • Peter Schmitt: Ebbe Weiss-Weingart. Jewelry 1946–1983. Exhibition catalog. Karlsruhe: Badisches Landesmuseum, Frankfurt am Main: Museum of Arts and Crafts 1983, ISBN 3-923132-01-8 .
  • Landesgewerbeamt Baden-Württemberg (ed.): Ebbe Weiss - Weingart. Goldsmith Salem . Volume 24, issue 2/1962. Karlsruhe: Braun 1962.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary notice Ebbe Weiss-Weingart , FAZ from November 24, 2019
  2. ↑ Ebbe Weiss-Weingart - Career, prizes and awards, accessed March 30, 2018
  3. ↑ Ebbe Weiss-Weingart. Jewelry Dreams, accessed March 30, 2018
  4. ^ Society for goldsmithing: Ebbe Weiss-Weingart - 70 years of jewelry. Retrieved March 30, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Ebbe Weiss-Weingart. Jewelry Dreams, accessed March 30, 2018
  6. ^ Society for goldsmithing: German goldsmith house Hanau - collections. Retrieved March 30, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Highlights from the Ebbe Weiss-Weingart Collection, accessed on March 30, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Weiss-Weingart, ebb
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German goldsmith and jewelry designer
DATE OF BIRTH February 20, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH November 13, 2019