1 / 32
Ring, 493
2022
Silver, ruby
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2 / 32
Ring, 492
2022
14ct gold, diamonds, carnelian
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3 / 32
Ring, 498
14ct gold, silver
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4 / 32
Ring, 477
2021
9ct palladium white gold, rough diamonds 4.5ct
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5 / 32
Ring, 490
2022
9ct gold, south sea pearls
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6 / 32
Ring, 451
Silver, niello, citrine
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7 / 32
Ring, 475
2021
18ct gold, polychrystalline synthetic diamond 12ct
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8 / 32
Ring, 464
2016
9ct palladium whitegold, pink sapphire
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9 / 32
Ring, 494
2015
Silver, ruby, sapphire, diamond, cubic zirconia
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10 / 32
Ring, 327
2019
Silver, orange sapphire, cubic zirconia
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11 / 32
Ring, 489
2022
Silver, carnelian
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12 / 32
Ring, 198
2016
9ct palladium, white gold
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13 / 32
Ring, 496
2013
18ct gold, diamonds
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14 / 32
Ring, 497
9ct gold, synthetic ruby
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15 / 32
Ring, 345
2019
9ct gold
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16 / 32
Ring, 488
2022
9ct palladium white gold, cubic zirconia
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17 / 32
Ring, 461
2021
Silver, raw garnet
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18 / 32
Ring, 330
2019
Oxidised sterling silver
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19 / 32
Ring, 470
18ct gold, cubic zirconia
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20 / 32
Ring, 413
2020
Oxidised silver, cubic zirconia
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21 / 32
Ring, 360
2019
Silver, citrine, topaz, cubic zirconia
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22 / 32
Ring, 365
2019
18ct gold, pink sapphire, amethyst, chyrsophrase
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23 / 32
Ring, 452
Oxidised sterling silver, sapphires
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24 / 32
Ring, 320
2019
Silver, emerald, jasper, synthetic aquamarine
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25 / 32
Ring, 359
2019
Oxidised silver
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26 / 32
Ring, 362
2019
9ct red gold, citrine, white topaz, amethyst, cubic ziconia
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27 / 32
Ring, 259
2017
18ct gold
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28 / 32
Ring, 334
2019
'Was not me'. 9ct palladium/white gold
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29 / 32
Ring, 430
2021
18ct gold, green garnet, diamond, sapphire, cubic zirconia
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30 / 32
Toaster
2021
Toaster, various stones
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31 / 32
Taoist Toaster
2021
Toaster, various stones
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32 / 32
Plates
2021
Hand built ceramic
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Karl Fritsch
Karl Fritsch has gained international recognition for his ever developing body of work, which has focussed almost solely on rings. Fritsch’s jewellery is unmistakable. His works vary from hand-moulded one-off castings, to re-cast, contrastingly daintier jewel-embedded rings, to towering stacks of cut and colourful glass. His ability to continually create new rings is vast and varied. Combining traditional techniques, playing on jewellery history, he has developed has own personal language. He is capable of applying both careful and quick consideration to the materials and objects he works with, and employs precious and base metals, facetted and found stones in his work with egalitarian abandon, turning the most ordinary into the extraordinary.
“Of course the ring wants to be beautiful. The technique also wants to be beautiful, and most often it’s the idea that wants to be the most beautiful. But sometimes a ring likes nothing better than to sit in the mud and not give a damn about how it looks. If it’s exactly what it wants to be in a given moment, it is precise, perfect and the most beautiful”. Karl Fritsch
Born in Germany in 1962, Karl Fritsch was classically trained at the Goldsmith’s College in Pforzheim, and then attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. He has exhibited extensively, presented guest lectures around the world and his work is held in private and public collections internationally, including the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, The Pinakothek of Modern Art in Munich, the Metropolitan Museum in New York and the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.
He has been the recipient of a number of awards including the Herbert Hoffman Prize from the International Craftsmen Trade Fair in Munich and the prestigious jury-selected Francoise van den Bosch Award (2006), given every 2 years to an international jewellery and object maker who is recognised for his/ her oeuvre, influence and contribution to the field.
Fritsch moved to New Zealand with his family in 2010, and now lives and works in Wellington.