Bruno Martinazzi. Journey into the Soul

Bruno Martinazzi, one of the greats of author’s jewelry, passed away on July 14, 2018. Munich was an important station in his life as a jewelry artist. Back in 2005, Bruno Martinazzi was invited by Die Neue Sammlung to give a lecture at the Pinakothek der Moderne as part of the “All About me” series on his path to becoming the unique artist whose work we all admire and which had an essential impact on the development of author’s jewelry worldwide. From the Neue Sammlung’s point of view, what could be more natural than to let him speak again at the end of his journey and to reproduce the lecture in a greatly shortened form and in excerpts.

I would like to thank Bruno Martinazzi’s widow, Carla Gallo Barbisio, Ellen Maurer-Zilioli, Karl Bollmann and Arnoldsche Art Publishers, who agreed to reprint the lecture, only reproduced here in part, which was first published in its entirety in: Ellen Maurer Zilioli / Karl Bollmann, Bruno Martinazzi, L’Oro E La Pietra, Stuttgart 2007, pp. 6-41.