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With around 100 pieces, this overview invites the reader to rediscover and reappraise the work of Helga Zahn (1936-1985), one of the pioneering jewellery artists of the 1960s and 1970s. Her one-off pieces are informed by clarity, ease and simplicity. With her innovative ways of thinking about jewellery, she revolutionised the emerging auteur jewellery movement of the day.

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Helga Zahn (1936-1985) was one of the leading jewellery artists in Britain during the 1960s and 1970s. The autodidact, who was raised in Schwarzenbach an der Saale, had a preference for silver and natural materials such as pebbles. Her one-off jewellery is formed from the clarity of simple geometric forms, the lightness and simplicity of the combinations and a reduced colour palette. With novel systematic thinking, in the mid 1960s she revolutionised the studio jewellery movement that was forming across the globe. With around a hundred jewellery objects, this current comprehensive review invites you on a journey of rediscovery and reappraisal of this exceptional artist.

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