Karin Nordmann

Karin Nordmann (born November 27, 1948 in Skagen , Denmark) is a Danish artist, jewelry designer and amber researcher.

Live and act

Karin Nordmann developed her interest in jewelry design in the late 1960s. In 1969 she lived in Rio de Janeiro , where she practiced for some time as an industrial psychologist in the H. Stern gem company. In 1970 she began to design her own jewelry with Brazilian gemstones, which she initially sold to Scandinavian sailors in Rio. As a "flower child" she also worked at Rio's flea market, where she designed jewelry made of silver and leather and also painted silk. In 1973 she traveled to Arizona and visited the Indian tribes of the Navajo , Zuñi , Hopi and in 1974 began exporting Indian jewelry, first to Denmark and later to Europe. She worked in northern Italy for the "Wiener enamel manufacture" and now began to design jewelry in silver and rock crystal. This was followed by exhibitions in the Bella Center and at fashion fairs in Paris, Frankfurt and Munich, Salzburg, Milan and Venice. In 1980/1981 she lived in an artists' kibbutz in Israel, where she mainly designed jewelry in aluminum and worked on the processing of archaeological pieces of glass. In 1981 she opened an amber and gemstone boutique in Skagen.

In 1989 she married the German amber cutter Peter Ernst. Interest in amber grew as the collections grew, which led to the opening of the Amber Museum in Skagen in 1994. Today, their collection of fossils in amber is considered the largest in the world. Karin Nordmann achieved her greatest commercial success with the idea of ​​having her husband design the so-called Skagen Rose as a jewelry series in gold and silver. This series is supplied from Skagen to all Danish jewelry stores.

The jewelry design developed by the artist couple Nordmann-Ernst is characterized above all by its concentration on the natural texture and shape of the materials. According to the motto: "Everything in nature is unique", the pieces of jewelery are mostly one-offs and aim at a harmonizing connection between the individuality of the wearer and the item.

Web links

• Skagen Amber Museum

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Karin Nordmann poisonous - med sin mand! , Skagens Avis, July 31, 2010