| Professor Hermann Jünger, the doyen of German goldsmiths, died
near Munich after a long illness at the age of seventy-six on 6 February 2005.
Born in Hanau in 1928, Jünger studied at the Staatlichen Zeichenakademie
(drawing academy) there, subsequently entering the studio of the Bauhaus
designer Wilhelm Wagenfeld at WMF in Geislingen before continuing his studies
under Franz Rickert at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste (Academy of Fine
Arts) in Munich. He was the goldsmith chosen to represent the Federal Republic
with his jewellery at the 1958 Brussels Exhibition. While he held the chair
for gold and silversmithing at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich (1972-1990),
Hermann Jünger's work and his many pupils from abroad made Munich a
European centre of the goldsmith's art. A member of the Bayerische Akademie
der Schönen
Künste (Bavarian Academy of Modern Art), he was held in high esteem on the
international art scene. Museums in Australia, Prague, London, New York and
the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich are among those owning works of his.
Moreover, Hermann Jünger long accompanied and exerted a formative influence
on the growth of the Danner Foundation jewellery collection. With Professor
Otto Künzli, his successor at the Munich Fine Art Academy, Hermann Jünger
co-curated by invitation the first jewellery exhibition mounted in the Danner
Rotunda at the Pinakothek der Moderne.
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