Spans the oeuvre of the Berlin jewelry artist from the early 1980s to the present. A breath-taking journey from geometrical forms to casts from nature, from stone to his current work, which unite the entire creative work of the artist in a grand symbiosis.

This publication is a varied showcase of an exceptional artist, who raises socially relevant issues on the medium of jewellery and critically questions our relationship with value and resources.

Winfried Kruger (born 1944) belongs to that generation of jewellery artists who witnessed the birth of avant-garde jewellery in the 1960s. The skilled goldsmith liberated himself from precision, fineness and other virtues of his craft in order to allow free rein to his creativity. For Kruger jewellery is ever-present. From the tread of a shoe via the launch pad of a firework to the set of a science fiction film - he finds inspiration in all of these things. Translated into metal, extraordinary artworks are then created, which in the examination of ideas, form, materiality and surface show a...