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Professor Hermann Dischler
25th September 1866 – 20th March 1935
Hermann Dischler was born on the 25th of September in 1866 in Freiburg i.Br. He received his artistic training in the art school in Karlsruhe, he was student of Gustav Schönleber. Thereafter he was engaged as a painter in the Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald area.
1894, after he finished his studies, he built himself an artist’s workroom in Freiburg i.Br. At this time he went on a lot of trips and his trusty camera followed him everywhere. Five years later he started to number and comment his artworks, which he collected in 29 «Bildbüchern (books of pictures)».
In the winter months from 1905 to 1907 he stayed in the Todtnauer Hütte, where a lot of his oil studies arise.
The snowy winter landscapes became his typical theme and he called himself «Schneemoler (snowpainter)». 1917 he received his professorship by Grand Duke Friedrich II.
In 1927 he had an exhibition with artists like Curt Liebich, Julius Heffner, Wilhelm Nagel, Wilhelm Wickertsheimer a.o., they called themselves «Die Schwarzwälder (the Black Forests)». He died on the 20th of March in 1935 in Hinterzarten. Today his works are extremely appreciated because the snowy landscape present the untouched nature.
Lit: Exhibition Catalogue Augustiner Museum, Freiburg i.Br., 1993
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Winterauktionen 25.–26.11.2022
Grima, Andrew
1921 Rome - 2007 Gstaad.
Amethyst pendant brooch from the Omega «Jeu d'Or» collection.
London and Biel 1972. Yellow gold 18k. Oval pendant intertwined into an eight with textured gold frame, centrally set with one natural amethyst crystal weighing approx.
Can also be worn as a brooch.
H 7,8,
Andrew Grima was the most popular jewellery designer in the fashion metropolis of London during the «Swinging Sixties», the time of the miniskirt and Beatlemania. Popular with the jet set and appointed purveyor to the court by the British royal family, his unusual organic creations rapidly conquered post-war fashion. He turned away from the decorative bow and floral designs of classic jewels and chose huge crystals and roughly worked gemstones that look like «objets trouvés». Grima's precious individual creations were colourful, modern and, above all, bold. After the hardships of the Second World War, they represented a new beginning and showed the jewellery scene the way to modernity.
The time was obviously ripe for the outlandish creations of the enfant terrible of jewellery design. So ripe, in fact, that in 1966 Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, presented his wife Queen Elizabeth II with a ruby brooch by Grima, which she wore again and again at official appearances throughout her life.
In 1969, the Swiss watch manufacturer Omega commissioned Grima to design their «About Time» watch collection. 55 watches and 31 pieces of jewellery originated in collaboration between Grima and Omega the likes of which the world had never seen before. After the great triumph of «About Time», the «Jeux d'Or» collection followed in 1972.
In the meantime, Grima's miniature works of art have become sought-after collectors' items. Since his death in 2007, his wife Jojo and daughter Francesca have continued the tradition of the house.
We would like to thank Ms Francesca Grima, daughter of the designer, London, for the kind remarks via
Literature: William Grant, Andrew Grima, The father of Modern Jewellery, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 2020, p. 48 - 49, p. 132 and p. 137 (cf.).
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