Klaus Burgel

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“Endless Conundrum,” the title of a 2009 monograph on the drawings, sculpture, and jewelry of Klaus Bürgel, best describes this multidisciplinary artist’s current series. Based upon a meandering line, these sterling silver brooches undulate rhythmically, gracefully dense, without beginning or end, iterations of the infinite. A consummate goldsmith, Bürgel is one of the most technically proficient and graphically compelling artist jewelers working today. He studied goldsmithing at Goldschmiedeschule and holds a BFA from Handwerkskammer, both in Pforzheim, along with undergraduate work and a MFA from Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Munich. He is a superb instructor in his own right, having taught at Maine College of Art, Portland; University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth; California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland; School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Rhode Island School of Design, Providence; and Parsons School of Design, New York. Bürgel is currently on the faculty of the 92ND Street Y in New York.

Ring, silver, gold, palladium, pearls
Ring, 2000, 18k gold, pyrite, pearls
Loop brooch, silver
Necklace, 18k gold, tektite, pearls
Pendant, 1999, tektite, pearls, 18k gold, fabricated chain

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50 Church St. Montclair,
NJ 07042 USA

Happy Thanksgiving! The gallery will be closed Nov. 27th thru Dec.1st. The first week of December we will be open, Monday Dec. 2nd, Thursday Dec. 5th and Friday Dec. 6th from 12-5pm. Please call 973-865-6194.