Danni Schwaag
Jeweller
Published: 26.11.2017
dannischwaag.deSet: organ, 2017
Pearls, Gem, Silver, Gold, Steel, Copper
In this series “organ”, forms are shaped out of mother of pearl inspired by human organs. i mirrored a part of the piece, which is made out of galalith, a milk stone, a material which has been used in the art deco era. I'm fascinated by the variety of the material; the mother of pearl with its lustre, its hardness on one hand and its brittleness on the other; the galalith with its sensitivity and softness; natural and artificial; complete and divided; healthy and destructed.
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Brooch: organ I, 2017
Mother of pearl, galalith, enamel on copper, silver, steel wire.
5 x 7 cm
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Brooch: organ II, 2017
Mother of pearl, galalith, gold, steel wire.
5 x 8 cm
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Brooch: organ III, 2017
Mother of pearl, galalith, enamel on copper, silver, steel wire.
8 x 8.5 cm
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Brooch: organ IV, 2017
Mother of pearl, galalith, gold, steel wire.
5.5 x 8.5 cm
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Brooch: organ V, 2017
Mother of pearl, galalith, enamel on copper, silver, steel wire.
6 x 7 cm
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Brooch: organ VI, 2017
Mother of pearl, galalith, gold, steel wire.
4.5 x 9 cm
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Brooch: organ VII, 2017
Mother of pearl, galalith, gold.
8 x 6 cm
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Earrings: to invert - rose and to invert - turkis, 2017
Mother of pearl, galalith, gold.
3.5 x 2 cm and 4 x 3 cm
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Brooch: stirring staff, 2016
Wood, acrylic paint.
different sizes
„to stir“ is a process of movement, transformation and excitement - important elements to create art. a stirring staff, which was used for years to stir acrylic paint, is the main part of this work. after having been just a stick of timber it is now covered with almost a kilo of acrylic paint mainly white, with fine streaks of other colours. so what happens when cutting it into slices? a tool which was needed for creating a painting turns into a painting for the body.
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Brooch: stirring staff, 2016
Wood, acrylic paint.
different sizes
On model
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Brooch: stirring staff, 2016
Wood, acrylic paint.
different sizes
On model
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Brooch: stirring staff, 2016
Wood, acrylic paint.
different sizes
On model
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Brooch: stirring staff, 2016
Wood, acrylic paint.
different sizes
On model
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Brooch: stirring staff, 2016
Wood, acrylic paint.
different sizes
On model
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Brooch: stirring staff, 2016
Wood, acrylic paint.
different sizes
On model
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Brooch: stirring staff, 2016
Wood, acrylic paint.
different sizes
On model
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Brooch: stirring staff, 2016
Wood, acrylic paint.
different sizes
On model
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Concrete Colours Series, 2014
Mixed acrylic paint stocked on the ground of a glass. after months, even years, it dried in the not airtight closed glass. the vitreous cover is smashed and a recycled product is left over, a kind of tinned ready made. concrete colours hardened into a kind of concrete texture.
Mixed acrylic paint stocked on the ground of a glass. after months, even years, it dried in the not airtight closed glass. the vitreous cover is smashed and a recycled product is left over, a kind of tinned ready made. concrete colours hardened into a kind of concrete texture.
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Brooch: Green, 2014
Dried acrylic paint, enamel on copper, silver oxidized, stainless steel
ø 6.5 cm
From series: Concrete colours
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Brooch: Black, 2014
Dried acrylic paint, enamel on copper, silver oxidized, stainless steel
6 x 11 cm
From series: Concrete colours
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Brooch: White, 2014
Dried acrylic paint, enamel on copper, silver and copper oxidized, stainless steel
5.5 x 10 cm
From series: Concrete colours
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Brooch: Red dot, 2014
Dried acrylic paint, enamel on copper, silver oxidized, stainless steel
4 x 10 cm
From series: Concrete colours
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Brooch: Heart, 2014
Dried acrylic paint, enamel on copper, silver and copper oxidized, galalith, stainless steel
6 x 10 cm
From series: Concrete colours
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Brooch: galalith vs mother of pearl, 2014
Material: galalith, mother of pearl, rubber, pearl silk, silver, steel.
made at Villa Bengel
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Danni SchwaagNecklace: untitled 02, 2014
Enamel on copper, acrylic paint, silver
80 x 80mm; length: 50cm
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Danni SchwaagNecklace: untitled 03, 2014
Enamel on copper, acrylic paint, silver
140 x 70mm; length: 60cm
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Danni SchwaagNecklace: untitled 04, 2014
Enamel on copper, acrylic paint, reconstructed stones, artificial material, wood, silver
65 x 40mm; length: 50cm
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Danni SchwaagNecklace: untitled 05, 2014
Enamel on copper, acrylic paint, wood, reconstructed stone, bead cord
100 x 90mm; length: 60cm
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Danni SchwaagBrooch: untitled 06, 2014
Enamel on copper, acrylic paint, reconstructed stones, bead cord, silver, steel
55 x 80mm
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Danni SchwaagBrooch: untitled 07, 2014
Enamel on copper, acrylic paint, silver, steel
45 x 95mm
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Danni SchwaagBrooch: untitled 08, 2014
Enamel on copper, acrylic paint, mother of pearl, rosegold, silver, steel
55 x 70mm
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Danni SchwaagBrooch: "painting", 2014
Acrylic paint, wood, rosegold, silver, steel
40 x 50mm
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Danni SchwaagBrooch: Blue drop, 2013
Enamel on copper, acrylic paint, reconstructed stone, silver, steel
7x6 cm
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Brooch: Colourful, 2013
Enamel on copper, acrylic paint, mother of pearl, steel
10.5x5 cm
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Brooch: Pearlegg, 2013
Enamel on copper, acrylic paint, mother of pearl, gold
3.5x4x2 cm
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Necklace: Artificial to natural, 2013
Enamel on copper, acrylic paint, mother of pearl, synthetic material, silver, found pieces from the beach, pearlsilk
6.5x6 cm, length 45 cm
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Necklace: Waves, 2013
Enamel on copper, reconstructed stone, artificial material, pearlsilk, silver
11x4.5 cm, length 60 cm
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Danni SchwaagRing: Untitled, 2009
Mother of pearl
from 3.5x4 up to 5.5x4cm
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Danni Schwaag is a german based artist, graduated in Gemology and Jewellery Design in the Fachhochschule Trier, University of Applied Arts. The artist is a regular presence in international exhibitions and publications. Danni is interested in an open creative process and in observing all elements in her researches, internal or external to the jewellery.
Statement
I sit down on my bench and start to work. I look at the body, how people move, how their body language speaks to me. The personality in making jewellery for me seems to be, when it rises from an impulse, which would like to be the most valuable characteristic and that what I want to find for me and my jewellery. In such a way I’m often not satisfied with the first idea. What should I do? Continue with making? Do not think about? Where does it come from what am I doing? Where will it go? The original idea for a piece of jewellery can transform into something completely unexpected during the work. The process should be always open. Does it concern a coincidence; etwas was mir “zufällt”? What I pick up when I go out of the house, when I look into the sky, when I meet people, when I sit at the bench? Does it happen then? Do I convert then these „sources“? Da „fällt“ mir etwas „zu“ oder „ein“. muss man „leer“ sein damit es einfallen kannIs it possible to be free from thoughts, which frighten or load one? From? (There is „falling“ something into me. That it can fall in I have to be empty.) these factors my work is developing. A quiet energy between me and the individual elements of the jewellery.CV 
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