Barbara Seidenath

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Barbara Seidenath
Born1960 (age 6162)
Education Academy of Fine Arts, Munich
Known forjewelry designer, metalsmith, goldsmith, professor
Spouse(s)Louis Mueller

Barbara Seidenath (born 1960) [1] is a German-born American jewelry designer, metalsmith, and educator.

Biography

Barbara Seidenath was born in 1960 in Bavaria, near Munich, Germany. [2] Her father worked in forestry and her mother was a school doctor. [2] Seidenath is married to artist and metalsmith Louis Mueller (born 1943). [3] [2]

She studied from 1977 to 1980 at the Staatliche Berufsfachschule für Glas und Schmuck  [ de ] (English: State Vocational School for Jewelry and Glass) in Neugablonz, studying under family friend and jeweler Hermann Jünger  [ de ]. [4] [5] During college, Seidenath worked for jeweler Ulrike Bahrs (born 1944) which influenced her use of color in her work. [2] In 1981, she was an exchange student at State University of New York at New Paltz, studying under Robert Ebendorf and Kurt Matzdorf. [6] From 1984 to 1990, Seidenath attended the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich where she received her MFA degree. [2]

For many years she had co-founded a line of jewelry with Lydia Gastroph (born 1957). [2] Seidenath is known for her enamel work, [7] as well as materials like gold, silver, and precious stones. [2] Since the 1990s, she has taught at Rhode Island School of Design and at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. [2]

Seidenath's work can be found in public museum collections at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, [8] Los Angeles County Museum of Art, [9] Rhode Island School of Design Museum, [1] Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, [10] [11] as well as at others.

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