Georg Dobler

Bio

Georg Dobler is a contemporary jeweler based in Berlin and Halle, Germany. Born in 1952 in Creussen, Germany, Dobler got his Master of goldsmith in 1980. Since 2002, Dobler has been a Professor at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Hildesheim, Germany. He is winner of various prizes, including 1991 Herbert Hofmann-Preis, 2000 Herbert Hofmann-Preis. He has had his work displayed internationally in solo exhibitions in the Museum Huelsmann, the Schmuck Museum, Germany, and in galleries around the world, including Holland, America, England, Spain, Belgium, and Finland. His work can be found in major museum collections including Metropolitan Museum of Art, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, Museum of Arts and Design, The Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Israel Museum of Art, Jerusalem, Victoria & Albert Museum, London and many others.
 

Statement

There are so many different values in my work. Maybe the contrast is the most important thing, but it is also about the physical and aesthetic value. Sometimes cheap but beautiful materials are more important than gold, and sometimes gold and crystals are the right ones for my concept. I am an artist, for me it is about being allowed to play with all of it without a ranking or a limit.
/ Georg Dobler, interviewed by Adriane Dalton for Art Jewellery Forum.


In 1985, after an early deconstructivist phase, Georg Dobler started complementing his jewelry with organic elements in blackened silver. In the late 1990s, he experimented with the opulence of gemstones, creating pieces characterized by an innovative combination of naturalism and artificiality. Around the turn of the millennium, he introduced minimalist compositions featuring polished amethyst or quartz slices set in blackened silver frames. His Beetle Brooches created since 2005 under the title à la Lalique clearly reveal he was inspired by this great Art Nouveau master. Dobler, who counts among the most important contemporary jewelry artists of today, recently started designing abstract, geometrical and technology-inspired pieces again.
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