Peter Frank



Born:

1956 Assenheim Germany

Training / Education:

  • 1976-1982 Gratuated from Philipps-University Marburg educational science with sociology and psychology…….
  • 1983-1985 goldsmith apprenticeship and Arts&Crafts School in Basel Switzerland

Work Experience:

  • since 1989 studio at E-Werk Halls for Art in Freiburg Germany
  • Exhibitions (Solo & Group Shows):
  • 1989 Schmuck-Kunst-Stücke from Carola Bauer and Peter Frank Gallery Schloß
  • Darmstadt Germany
  • 1991 Kunst im E-Werk E-Werk Hallen für Kunst Freiburg Germany
  • 1992 Dreibroschenoper Gallery Cebra Düsseldorf Germany
  • rings Gallery Zeller Bern Switzerland
  • 1993 rings Museum Bellerive Zürich Switzerland
  • Schmückendes für Hand und Ohr Friedrich Wilhelm Müller Wettbewerb
  • Museum für Natur und Stadtgeschichte Schwäbisch Gmünd Germany
  • 1994 Schmuckstücke Internationaler Wettbewerb Deutsches Elfenbeinmuseum
  • Erbach Germany
  • 1995 Architektur und Schmuck Gallery Cebra Düsseldorf Germany
  • Bauer,Bouduban, Frank,Marechal,Morel,Pahud Gallery Zeller Bern
  • Switzerland
  • Het fatale Verzoeg Gallery Knibbe Edam the Netherlands
  • 1996 Häuser,Schiffe etc.Esther Zita & Peter Frank Gallery Hermsen Wiesbaden
  • Germany
  • 1997 In neuer Reihung Friedrich Wilhelm Müller Wettbewerb Museum für Natur
  • und Stadtkultur Schwäbisch Gmünd Germany
  • Deutsches Goldschmiedehaus Hanau Germany
  • Camelot 1115 Gallery Camelot Krakow Poland
  • Goldschmiedeschule Pforzheim Germany
  • Art Gallery Zacheta Warszawa Poland
  • 1998 Fibula'98 Die fantastische Welt der Broschen Gallery Ritter St.Gallen
  • Switzerland
  • Camelot 1116 Gallery Camelot Krakow Poland
  • reine Männersache Gallery Schuster Cologne Germany
  • Gallery for Goldsmithing Art Breslau Poland
  • 1999 SOS-Schmucke Retter in der Not Gallery Friends of Carlotta Zürich
  • Switzerland
  • 2001 (Solo) Gallery Aurum Frankfurt/Main Germany
  • L'infini Gallery viceversa Lausanne Switzerland
  • 2002 5 Gramm Gold + Gallery Aurum Frankfurt Germany
  • mak. Museum for Applied Arts Frankfurt Germany
  • Natur und Zeit Deutsches Goldschmiedehaus Hanau Germany
  • 2003 (Solo) Gallery Viceversa Lausanne Switzerland
  • Nachtstücke Gallery Friends of Carlotta Zürich Switzerland
  • Verborgenes Gallery Cebra Düsseldorf Germany
  • Porte-bonheur Gallery Viceversa Lausanne Switzerland
  • 2004 L'ora dell'oro jewellery from Padova and Freiburg with Annamaria
  • Zanella, Graziano Visintin, Piergiuliano Reveane.Renzo Pasquale,
  • Stefano Marchetti. Heidi Gerullis and Carola Bauer E-Werk Halls for
  • Art Freiburg Germany
  • Sofa New York, repr. by Charon Kransen Arts USA
  • Raum für Schmuck Cologne Germany
  • Sofa Chicago, repr. by Charon Kransen Arts USA

Awards / Grants:

  • 1994 Commendation The German Ivory Museum Erbach Germany
  • Collections (Private & Museum):
  • 1992 Alice & Louis Koch Collection Switzerland

Publications:

  • GZ Goldschmiede und Uhrmacher Zeitung September 1992
  • Art Aurea 3/1994
  • GZ Goldschmiede und Uhrmacher Zeitung August 1994
  • Catalog Schmuckstücke Internationaler Wettbewerb 1994
  • Catalog Kunst im E-Werk `94 1994
  • Catalog Camelot 1115 Ways of surviving the turn of the century 1997
  • Catalog Camelot 1116 Comebacks 1996
  • Catalog Natur und Zeit Internationaler Schmuckwettbewerb 2002
  • femina Un archaisme tres contemporain 2003
  • 24 heures Expression libre 2003
  • Badische Zeitung Wie eine antike Schatzkammer 2004

Artist Statement:

On the occasion of my exhibition in Lausanne the Swiss journalist Francoise Jaunin noted, that my jewellery gets its force by combining the roughness with the refinement, the archaic with the contemporary and a freedom of conception with a rigour of realization.

What Nikolaus Harnoncourt says about music I relate to jewellery: Beauty has something to do with dirt, with non-perfection.