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Ripe fruit

Title
Ripe fruit / Otto Jakob ; editor, Angelika Taschen ; text, Vivienne Becker ; translations, Uta Hasekamp.
Publication
  • Berlin : Hatje Cantz, [2018]
  • ©2018

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Additional Authors
  • Jakob, Otto, 1951-
  • Taschen, Angelika
  • Becker, Vivienne, 1953-
  • Hasekamp, Uta
Description
295 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimile, portraits; 31 cm
Summary
Otto Jakob (*1951) is an internationally renowned jewelry maker, and perhaps one of the most unusual. After studying painting under Georg Baselitz, he turned to goldsmithing. As an autodidact, he learned to mix traditional techniques with contemporary content. His pieces are meticulously detailed, and rather than being solely formally pleasing, they tell stories. Jakob's influences are manifold: nature, religion, art, and art history. For instance, his jellyfish earrings, Medusae, are inspired by Ernst Haeckel's lithographs. To make his Cyphostemma earrings, Jacob made casts of the leaves of a rare Somalian plant, while the most fascinating types of insects from his personal chamber of curiosities serve as models for his beetle earrings. This volume reveals Jakob's creative universe and features important leitmotifs from his work. The sources of his inspiration are contrasted with his works, elucidating the vocabulary of form he uses for his magical pieces.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Catalogs.
  • Pictorial works.
Language (note)
  • Text in English with a biographical essay in English and German.
Call Number
JQG 19-299
ISBN
  • 9783775744942
  • 3775744940
OCLC
1055264197
Title
Ripe fruit / Otto Jakob ; editor, Angelika Taschen ; text, Vivienne Becker ; translations, Uta Hasekamp.
Publisher
Berlin : Hatje Cantz, [2018]
Copyright Date
©2018
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Language
Text in English with a biographical essay in English and German.
Added Author
Jakob, Otto, 1951- Works. Selections.
Taschen, Angelika, editor.
Becker, Vivienne, 1953- author.
Hasekamp, Uta, translator.
Research Call Number
JQG 19-299
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