{"id":3391,"date":"2024-03-05T18:44:57","date_gmt":"2024-03-05T17:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.die-neue-sammlung.de\/?post_type=exhibition&p=3391"},"modified":"2026-02-27T11:28:02","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T10:28:02","slug":"dorothea-pruehl-colliers-necklaces","status":"publish","type":"exhibition","link":"https:\/\/www.die-neue-sammlung.de\/en\/ausstellung\/dorothea-pruehl-colliers-necklaces\/","title":{"rendered":"Dorothea Pr\u00fchl. Colliers. Necklaces"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dorothea Pr\u00fchl. Colliers. Necklaces<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n
\u201cTo me, neck jewellery is jewellery par excellence.\u201d – Dorothea Pr\u00fchl<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n
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View of showcases, Dorothea Pr\u00fchl. Colliers. Necklaces, 2009.<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
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About the Exhibition<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n
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Dorothea Pr\u00fchl (b. in Breslau in 1937) is a leading contemporary artist in jewellery. Abstract impressions from nature, concentration on essentials, profound sensitivity and sculptural vigour distinguish her aesthetic stance. She makes fundamental statements in gold and silver \u2014 as well as wood, aluminium, titanium and stainless steel.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n

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Impressions, which are manifest in generous clarity of form. Starting with givens, she tracks down their inmost core, lending it a new aesthetic language \u2014 it might be a flower, the wind, a house. The object represented remains more or less recognisable, concealing no hidden messages so that it allows for no extrinsic interpretations.
After studying art at Burg Giebichenstein in Halle (1956\u20141962), Dorothea Pr\u00fchl at first worked as a designer of mass-produced jewellery in industry before being offered a teaching post in jewellery \u201cat the Castle\u201d and a return to Halle. Together with Renate Heintze (1936\u20141991), Dorothea Pr\u00fchl worked out a new training concept aimed at one-off pieces, which entailed both opposing the officially prescribed orientation towards design and shaking off the pervasive crafts tradition centred on workmanship. From 1991 Dorothea Pr\u00fchl was head of the Burg Giebichenstein Institute for Art and Design and from 1994 she held the chair in jewellery there until she retired in 2002. Apart from her \u0153uvre, she has, therefore, personally exerted a formative influence on what has been happening in jewellery in Germany.
Works by Dorothea Pr\u00fchl are owned by numerous important museums and collections all over the world. In recent years, the artist has devoted herself exclusively to neck jewellery, which, as she puts it herself, is \u201cjewellery par excellence\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/content-reveal>\n\n\t\t

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