Rudolf Bott

Rudolf Bott completed his three years of apprenticeship as a goldsmith at the company GA Korff in Hanau, and then worked for two years in the workshop of Hermann Kunkler, Raesfeld. In 1978 he studied at one of Europe’s oldest goldsmith training institutions – The National Design Academy, Hanau – where he completed his masters training 1980. He then worked for three years in the studio of Max Pollinger, Munich, before starting studies at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts, under the professorship of Prof. Hermann Junger, and Prof. Erwin Sattler. Since making his diploma in 1989 he has worked independently with the exception of the years 1997 to 1999, where he is a professor at the Hochschule Pforzheim.

Today Bott lives and works in Neuburg an der Donau.

Awards

· 1989 Design Award for the City of Munich

· 1990 Honorary Award of the Danner Foundation

· 1992 Hessian State Prize of the German Crafts

· 1992 1st prize of the 10th International Triennial Silver Hanau

· 1992 Bavarian State Award, International Handicraft Fair Munich

· 1997 Herbert Hofmann prize, International Handicraft Fair Munich

· 1999 Friedrich Becker Prize

· 2001 Bavarian State Award, International Handicraft Fair Munich

· 2005 Hanauer City Goldsmith

· 2011 Gebhard Fugel Art Award

To coincide with the Design Museum's survey show Unexpected Pleasures: The Art and Design of Contemporary Jewellery, GALLERY S O London presents Chamber of Wonder.

While the term 'cultural resistance' has become synonymous with the world of social sciences in the 1970s, new energies emerged elsewhere. From the sub, counter and resistance cultures exciting developments in contemporary jewellery blossomed and a fresh identifiable movement among designers and makers of the day was born. The work asked questions about the cultural meanings of gender, material value and the intimate relationship between the object and body. Wearable pieces were made to rethink social rituals and stereotypes and queried the notion of how and why we adorn ourselves.

Following in the spirit of this movement Chamber of Wonder shows the work of current designer makers united by their irreverence of traditional notions of luxury jewellery and a curiosity for reinterpreting objects found and fashioned to wear. From Bernhard Schobinger's choker of hexagon rock crystal slabs linked with fine gold to Hans Stofer's renovated skipping rope necklace with timeworn handles, or David Bielander's silky, silver garlic bulb pendant, the works in the show celebrate the diverse expressions of the genre and offer fresh alternatives to the 'proper' function of jewellery.

Rudolf Bott

TWENTY

collect 2020

Winter Show

Stone Exhibition

Moonlike

Collect 2017

Gallery Artists

artgenève

Chamber of Wonder : International Art Jewellery

22 Bricks at a Time

Rudolf Bott : Hände mit Augen

Rudolf Bott: Enduro

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