Karl Fritsch: Ninkern

Book / Artists

Published: 31.10.2012

Daniel Kruger
Gerd Rothmann
Robert Baines
Florian Hufnagl
Karl Fritsch

Editor:: Becky Bliss, Karl Fritsch

Edited by:: Braunbook Publications

Edited at:: Wellington

Technical data:: 127 pages, soft cover, colour photographs, text in German and English, 30 x 21 cm

ISBN / ISSN:: 1978-0-473-21775-4

Not for sale at Klimt02.

Inner pages

Yes, of course the ring wants to be beautiful. The technique also wants to be beautiful, and most often it’s the idea that wants to be the most beautiful. But sometimes a piece likes nothing better than to sit in the mud and not give a damn about how it looks. If it is exactly what it wants to be in a given moment, it is precise, perfect and the most beautiful.

I learnt goldsmithing in a pretty traditional manner at a vocational college and company in Pforzheim. Then at the Academy I found out how I could use what I had learned. I enjoy working, and things often have to be done very quickly. One moment, a ring wants to look a certain way, and the next, it wants to look like something quite different. Sometimes it even freaks out, is unruly, out of control.
Sometimes a ring plays a joke on me, or it sits at the table like a good child, doing nothing. Then it’s about quickly soldering, casting, filing, setting stones. The ring can’t wait; it is impatient and wants to hurry.

Texts by Authors: Daniel Kruger, Gerd Rothmann, Prof. Dr. Robert Baines, Prof. Dr. Florian Hufnagl; otherwise Karl Fritsch.
Edited and designed by Becky Bliss and Karl Fritsch.