Friedrich Becker: Jewellery. Kinetics objects.

Book / Arnoldsche Monograph

Published: 01.01.2008

Friedrich Becker

Text by:: Friedrich Becker, Beate Christiane Arnold, Rüdiger Joppien, Anna Beatriz Chadour-Sampson

Edited by:: Arnoldsche Art Publishers

Edited at:: Sttutgart

Technical data:: 304 pages, hardback, full colour images, text in English and German, 31 x 25 cm

ISBN / ISSN:: 3-925369-76-7

Price:: from 49 €

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Friedrich Becker was a goldsmith of world renown and undoubtedly one of the most outstanding artistic personalities of our day, truly altering the course of goldsmiths' work in the latter half of the 20th century. Becker was the creator of kinetic jewellery and was well-known as a sculptor and designer. His work is collected by many major museums and has been featured in innumerable exhibitions.

The purity of form in his work laid the foundations for a new aesthetic style in jewelllery. Stemming from his preoccupation with precision, he combined high standards of workmanship with a supreme subtlety. In his jewellery “wearable” art was born. The book focuses on the extraordinary genius of Becker, a master craftsman and mentor, who would have welcomed this exploration of his work to inspire artists and art historians alike.

A fascinating survey of the versatile creativity of the artist, who as an internationally acknowledged gold jeweller and designer of kinetic jewellery left his mark on the goldsmithery of the second half of the 20th century.