A Goldschmied manufactures decoration from precious metal (gold, platinum, silver, palladium). Here alloys are usually processed. The multiplicity of the materials covers jewels, beads, ivory, email and rubber (india rubber) during the further arrangement of decoration among other things. The moreover one are used high-grade steel and rather rarely iron, non-ferrous metals as well as wood and also plastic.

The occupation is strongly of work relating to crafts coined/shaped and structured rarely industrially arbeitsteilig depending upon manufacturing emphasis. Fantasie, patience and pronounced motor (eye hand) abilities are predominant conditions for those in sitting implemented operational sequences.

Purely relating to crafts one differentiates between the Goldschmied, whose emphasis lies after training and activity with the organization and production of decoration, of silver-forges, who makes sakrales equipment and everyday equipment of the materials specified above in the form of containers and Essbestecken. Who takes a mastership examination today in one of the two occupations, gold and Silberschmiedemeister/in lead the title.

Historical development

Over the centuries regarded from the gold forging occupation new vocational fields out-developed:

• Precious metal technology (working on technology, alloy production, analysis, semi-finished material production, (sheet) gold racquet, precious metal sheaths, recycling technologies, etc.)
• Currency production (coins, notes)
• Engravers, Guillocheure, Kupferstecher (printing), Ziseleure
• Silver silberschmiede (table-ware, Sakrales, metal sculptor)
• Metallbildner (in former times: Ziseleur, Ziselieren)
• Zahntechnik (dental technology)
• Surface technique polish (, sharpen, coat)
• Galvanotechnics
• Uhrmacher
• Modellmacher (wax, plastics, metal, CAD/CAM).
• Jewel-gold-forge
• Schmucksteinfasser
• Vergolder (gold foil processing)
• Restoration

Acquaintance"Â…

Goldschmiede

• Peter Bauhuis
• Benvenuto Cellini (1500-1571)
• Johann Melchior Dinglinger (1664-1731)
• Albrecht D. (around 1427-1502)
• Antonius Eisenhoit (around 1553-1603)
• Carl Peter (1846-1920)
• Johann Fust
• Pierre Germain (Le Romain)
• Johannes good mountain (around 1400-1468)
• Israhel van Meckenem (the younger one) (around 1440 - 1503)
• Israhel van Meckenem (the older one) (15. Century)
• Hermann young (1928-2005)
• Ludwig jug (around 1488/90 1532)
• Lalique (1860-1945)
• Nikolaus of Verdun (around 1130 - after 1205)
• Pierre le Flamand
• Elizabeth Treskow (1898-1992)
• Volvinius
• Siegfried Lorenz

Gold forging families

• Arfe (Spain)
  • Enrique Arfe
  • Antonio Arfe
  • Juan de Arfe y Villafane
• Germain (Paris; France)
  • Pierre Germain
  • Thomas Germain
  • Francois Thomas Germain
• Jamnitzer (Nuremberg)
  • Wenzel Jamnitzer
  • Albert Jamnitzer
  • Christoph Jamnitzer

See also

• Gold forging art
• Forge
• Metallbildner
• Engraver
• Fasser
• Handicraft
• List by occupations

Related links

• Here the federal agency for work describes the field of activity of the Goldschmiede, shows legal regulations and calls addresses, numbers and facts
• Gold racquet workshop, Schwabach
• National indication academy Hanau
• The training as the Goldschmied experiences of a Goldschmiedin

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