Georg Hornemann

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Georg Hornemann

Georg Hornemann (born April 21, 1940 in Dessau ) is a German goldsmith and jewelry artist.

Life

Childhood, youth and education

Georg Hornemann was born in Dessau in 1940 as one of six siblings. His father worked for Junkers Flugzeugwerk AG Dessau - so Georg Hornemann wanted to be an aircraft manufacturer for many years. He had a strictly Catholic childhood.

A special talent for drawing showed in adolescence. Hornemann left school at the age of 15 and started an apprenticeship with one of the leading goldsmiths in Dessau, master goldsmith Kirsch. Here he came into contact with the spirit of the Bauhaus . At the same time he attended the "Vocational School for Splinter Technology".

Before the Wall was erected in 1958, Georg Hornemann went to West Germany at the age of 18. He stayed with relatives in Düsseldorf and found a job with the Weyersberg company, one of the leading jewelry stores in Düsseldorf.

Artistic career

In 1967 he received the first international award for outstanding jewelry design and subsequently won other important competitions. He started his own business as a goldsmith. First he supplied the jewelry industry. Later he devoted himself almost exclusively to the creation of unusual individual pieces. In 1973 he moved into his own studio in Düsseldorf. At the beginning of the 1970s, his designs were initially inspired by Op Art , from the mid-1970s onwards they were shaped by materials alien to jewelry such as ancient coins, Byzantine crosses, Russian icons and Japanese sword parts.

In 1982 Georg Hornemann was accepted into the "Diamonds International Academy" by Sir Anthony Oppenheimer. His pieces of jewelry have been shown in New York, Paris, London, Sydney, Singapore, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Zurich, Düsseldorf and Berlin and have won awards. In 1985 he began working with his son Alexander Hornemann (born January 31, 1963). Together they opened 46 sales rooms on Königsallee in 1996, which the architect Karl-Heinz Petzinka converted.

In the mid-1990s the first large silver and iron objects, bowls and candlesticks as well as the first stylized flower rings were created. The design of the “bel objets”, for example walking sticks with animal motifs for his friend and artist Markus Lüpertz , followed. From 2000 Hornemann created his so-called "ring sculptures", inspired by contemporary architecture, sculpture and art. Almost at the same time he developed the first table and furnishing objects under the name "objet d'art". These include large candlesticks with rock crystal, iron and silver bowls and various table objects such as toads and lizards made of silver and bronze. Large-format flora and fauna brooches were created from 2002. With the so-called "noble punk" work began a new experimental creative phase using innovative materials: he refined the experimental designs for bangles made of acrylic with platinum, diamonds and sapphires.

Hornemann was the first goldsmith to design a jewelry collection especially for the summer 2005 prêt-à-porter collection of the luxury label Akris , which was shown in Paris in the Carrousel du Louvre . From 2010 he worked with Rita McBride , Bazon Brock , Alicja Kwade , Paloma Varga Weisz and Thomas Grünfeld . From 2010 to 2012 Georg Hornemann participates in Cologne Fine Art & Antiques . In 2012, the Lehmbruck Museum in Duisburg is dedicating an exhibition to the jewelry artist in a museum context for the first time.

In 2013, Georg and Alexander Hornemann were invited to curate the jewelry collection of the Museum of Applied Arts Cologne (MAKK) and to engage in a dialogue with their own pieces. The exhibition showed exhibits from the museum's own collection in dialogue with works from the Georg Hornemann studio.

Materials, topics

Hornemann works with precious stones and gold, silver, platinum, bronze and iron, but also Corian or acrylic. Motifs from flora and fauna are central, whereby he simplifies and abstracts the natural forms and emphasizes the ornamental. Another topic is the tension between life and death.

classification

With regard to the versatility of his design work, Rüdiger Joppien places Hornemann “in a line of tradition with Cellini, Jamnitzer, Dinglinger or Lalique”.

Exhibitions

  • 2007 “Georg Hornemann - Creatures”, book presentation and exhibition, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen K21, Düsseldorf
  • 2009 "Objects by Georg Hornemann", Schönewald Fine Arts, Düsseldorf
  • 2012 “Georg Hornemann - Objets d'art”, solo exhibition with sculptures and objects in the Lehmbruck Museum , Duisburg.
  • 2013 “Boys get skulls, girls get butterflies”, Museum of Applied Arts Cologne (MAKK)
  • 2016 exhibition at the Kunstgewerbemuseum, Berlin

Prizes and awards

  • 1967–1969, 1974 award "Prix de la Ville de Genève"
  • 1967, 1969, 2 × 1971, 1973 "The golden magnifying glass", competition of the Society of Gemstone Friends (GDE), Hanau
  • 1968, 1970, 2 × 1972 "The golden shell", competition of the Society of Gemstone Friends (GDE), Hanau
  • 1968 "Diamonds-International Award", New York
  • 1970 Award for exemplary design, design competition for engagement rings
  • 1970 German jewelry and gemstone award. Society of Edelsteinfreunde eV (GDE), Hanau
  • 1970 Award in the Georg Lauer anniversary competition
  • 1972 "Diamonds-International Award", San Francisco
  • 1973 Awarded the "Jewel of the Year" award
  • 1974 Three prizes in the International Dugena Competition, award ceremony and exhibition in Pompeii
  • 1974–1976 "Golden Rose" from Baden-Baden
  • 1974 Gold medal in the international jewelry making competition "Magic of new creations"
  • 1975 1st prize in the "Diamonds Today" competition
  • 1977 Two awards in the “Diamonds Today” competition for outstanding design
  • 1977 Award in the international jewelry competition for the 100th anniversary of the Pforzheim Arts and Crafts Association
  • 1978 1st and 2nd prize in the 1st international jewelry competition "Bijoux prèt a porter'78"
  • 1982 Honored with the "Diamonds-International Award", Venice
  • 1982 admission to the "Diamonds-International Academy", New York
  • 1985 Award of the Platin-Gilde-International for excellent design
  • 1992 Award in the "Diamonds Today" competition.
  • 1992 International Colored Diamond Award, Perth, Australia
  • 1996 Atelier Georg Hornemann: Received the “Diamonds-International Award” in Paris
  • 2017 Cologne Fine Art Prize

literature

  • Georg Hornemann . DuMont Verlag, Cologne 2003, ISBN 3-8320-8843-1 .
  • Georg Hornemann - Creatures , DISTANZ Verlag, Berlin 2007. ISBN 978-3-942405-15-7 .
  • Georg Hornemann. Objects , Verlag Walther König, Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-86560-713-3 .
  • Raimund Stecker and Claudia Thümler (eds.): Objets d'art , exhibition cat. Lehmbruck Museum Duisburg, Fern-Verlag, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-942405-60-7 .
  • Petra Hesse and Valeria Liebermann: Boys get skulls, girls get butterflies; MAKK jewelry art with works by Georg Hornemann , exhib.-cat. Museum for Applied Art, Cologne, DISTANZ-Verlag, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-95476-031-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c in: "Georg Hornemann". DuMont Verlag, Cologne 2003, ISBN 3-8320-8843-1
  2. ↑ a b c d e in: "Objets d'art", Ed .: Raimund Stecker and Claudia Thümler, exhib.-cat. Lehmbruck Museum Duisburg, Fern-Verlag, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-942405-60-7
  3. ↑ in "Boys get skulls, girls get butterflies" Jewelry Arts of MAKK with works by Georg Hornemann. Ed .: Petra Hesse and Valeria Liebermann. Exhibition cat. Museum for Applied Art, Cologne, DISTANZ-Verlag, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-95476-031-2
  4. ^ Rüdiger Joppien in: Exhibition catalog "Objets d'art", Lehmbruck Museum Duisburg 2012
personal data
SURNAME Hornemann, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German goldsmith and jewelry artist
DATE OF BIRTH April 21, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Dessau