Elisabeth Treskow

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Elisabeth Treskow (born August 20, 1898 in Bochum ; † October 6, 1992 in Brühl (Rhineland) ) was a German goldsmith and art professor. She was one of the first women to practice goldsmithing professionally and rediscovered the Etruscan technique of granulation .

biography

education and study

From 1914 Treskow visited the Hagener silversmiths three times a week , an institution of the art collector and patron Karl Ernst Osthaus ; it was here that the first attempts were made to mount cups and plates in copper. Under the guidance of the Dutch silversmith Frans Zwollo (1872–1945) the first jewelry works were made.

In 1915 Elisabeth Treskow attended the metal class at the Folkwang School in Essen and studied painting with Johan Thorn Prikker .

From 1916 to 1917 she studied further at the Royal Higher Technical School for Precious Metals in Schwäbisch Gmünd with Walter Klein and began an apprenticeship in goldsmithing with Karl Rothmüller in Munich. In 1918 she completed this with the journeyman's examination and returned to Bochum in 1919, where she set up her own workshop in her parents' house.

Essen Margarethenhöhe

In 1923 Elisabeth Treskow moved to the Margarethenhöhe in Essen and set up an attic studio there. A year later she passed her master craftsman examination at the Düsseldorf Chamber of Crafts .

After moving the workshop within Margarethenhöhe in 1927, she devoted herself experimentally to rediscovering granulation . In addition to the photographer Gertrud Hesse , Albert Renger-Patzsch documents her work photographically.

From 1932 onwards, the workshop's order situation improved steadily. In addition to jewelry orders from the upper middle class in Essen, the first church orders came. In 1938 she made the mayor's chain for the city of Essen.

War years

In 1939, the order situation in her workshop decreased as a result of the outbreak of war. She used this free space and devoted herself more to granulation.

After her studio was destroyed by bombs in 1943, she went to Detmold , where her parents lived. She was able to set up a workshop there again, but as a result of the war and the subsequent economic depression, she made very little jewelry during this time. She took over the restoration of silver work for the Prince of Lippe-Detmold.

After 1945: Cologne factory schools

In 1948 she was appointed to the Cologne factory schools, which had reopened two years earlier, as head of the gold and silversmith class. The reputation she had acquired by then led to her being entrusted with the provisional restoration of Cologne's Epiphany in the same year . Under their leadership, the shrine was poorly reassembled after it had been relocated due to the war, and at the same time the demand for a thorough restoration was made.

The championship trophy

One of the most popular works by Elisabeth Treskow is undoubtedly the “Meisterschale” of the German Football Association , the so-called “salad bowl”, which she made with her students at the Cologne factory schools in 1949.

In 1953 Elisabeth Treskow took a short but successful foray into the field of product design. She designed 36-piece cutlery for the POTT company in Solingen and won several design awards with it.

In 1954 she began to work on the chain of office for the mayor of Cologne, which she completed the following year.

In 1956 she was appointed professor at the Cologne factory schools.

In 1961 Elisabeth Treskow converted to the Roman Catholic faith. It began with the actual restoration work on the Epiphany Shrine in Cologne. The silversmith she proposed, Fritz Zehgruber, was entrusted with the driving work of several new prophetic figures.

On April 1, 1964, she resigned from teaching.

Old age in Brühl

In 1977 the City of Cologne was awarded the Jabach Medal as a thank you for donating jewelry to the Museum of Applied Art . In the following years she handed over part of her library, her photo archive, design drawings from six decades and her collection of antique gems, comprising around 135 pieces. In 1990 the Cologne Museum organized a retrospective of all of their work.

Elisabeth Treskow died in 1992 in the Wetterstein retirement home in Brühl near Cologne, where she had moved in 1971.

Prizes and awards (selection)

  • In 1933-35-36 she received the first prize of the German Society for Goldsmithing
  • 1937: Gold medal at the Paris World Exhibition
  • In 1938 the German Society for Goldsmithing awarded her the first woman the golden ring of honor.
  • 1963: Bavarian State Prize
  • 1964: Large Federal Cross of Merit
  • 1967: State Prize for Arts and Crafts of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia
  • 1977: Jabach Medal from the City of Cologne
  • 2006: The city of Cologne names a square at the Rheinauhafen after Elisabeth Treskow.

Quotes

  • "It seems to me more important to forge gold than to talk about why and what for ..."
  • “My attempts to wait for the muses to kiss me have always failed. I think they would rather kiss those whose foreheads are moistened with sweat than those who are idly awaiting their arrival. "

literature

  • Rüdiger Joppien: Elisabeth Treskow, Goldsmith's Art of the 20th Century . Museum of Applied Arts, Cologne 1990.
  • Rüdiger Joppien: Elisabeth Treskow . In: FrauenSilber. Paula Straus, Emmy Roth & Co. Silversmiths of the Bauhaus era, Karlsruhe: Badisches Landesmuseum 2011, ISBN 978-3-937345-47-5 , pp. 156–165.
  • Delia Elisa Pätzold: Elisabeth Treskow - craftsman, artist, pioneer. In: Bochumer Punkte , No. 35, February 2016, pp. 25–31.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Rüdiger Joppien: Elisabeth Treskow (1898-1992), goldsmith. In: Portal Rhenish History. Landschaftsverband Rheinland, September 30, 2010, accessed on January 6, 2013 .
  2. ↑ Stefan Palm: City of Cologne awards Jabach medal to Corboud and von Rautenstrauch. The two personalities have rendered outstanding services to the Cologne museums. City of Cologne - Office for Press and Public Relations, December 10, 2012, accessed on December 11, 2012 .
  3. ↑ Elisabeth Treskow: About my work and me. In: Journal for goldsmiths, jewelers and engravers. 1943, No. 3, pp. 30-31.
  4. ↑ ibid.

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personal data
SURNAME Treskow, Elisabeth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German goldsmith
DATE OF BIRTH August 20, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Bochum
DATE OF DEATH October 6, 1992
Place of death Bruehl (Rhineland)