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Martin Erler passed away unexpectedly in June 2023. He was a member of the CKI for many years and was also the association’s treasurer for many years. As a friend and supporter of the CKI, he played a key role in guiding the fortunes of the association with great commitment.
In January 2024, our member Andrea Wagner passed away unexpectedly. She discovered her creativity in recent years in very different ways, especially in enameling, goldsmithing, wood printing and pottery. Silk painting and batik work were also part of her art program many years ago. She had her first experience with […]
Marcelo Bessi from Argentina enamels both, in the oven and with an open flame, creating very special reactions. On his Europe trip he stopped off in Altrich to give us a workshop on his special way of enameling.
Here are some impressions of the 2023 annual exhibition of members and friends of the CKI at the enamel-museum “Alte Mühle” Himmerod:
In this workshop, we transferred photos and drawings onto enamel plates using laser printing and transfer paper and processed them further.
Have you ever experienced this? You’re sawing away so quietly and suddenly the saw blade doesn’t quite want to glide through the metal. Here, any candle through which the saw blade is pulled provides an effective remedy. The wax acts as a lubricant during sawing and the saw blade glides […]
You can enamel not only in a kiln, but also with an open flame. Here some impression on this method:
Transparent enamel is often underlaid with gold or silver leaf to increase the luminosity of the colors. For this purpose, the gold leaf/silver leaf is fired onto a layer of enamel and then further layers of transparent enamel follow.
On the occasion of the 101st birthday of Margarete Svoboda, the CKI is exhibiting a retrospective of her works. Born in 1921 in Mercydorf in Banat, she devoted herself to porcelain painting and enamel art. She attended the art school in Timisoara and the art academy in Cluj-Napoca and was […]
Before the enamel can be applied to the metal (copper, silver or gold), it must be degreased and freed from all oxidation (in the case of copper). Here are three completely harmless and environmentally friendly recipes. However, it goes without saying that even these stains should not get into the […]
Creativity, painting, drawing, creating objects, sewing, designing jewelry, I saw this as a necessity for my life from an early age and practiced it intensively. Then, during my studies, and later in addition to my university job as a university teacher and my freelance work as a technical translator and […]
Renate Mikolajczyk passed away in October 2023. She was one of the first members of the CKI and together with her husband she played an active role in shaping the association. Her first contacts with the material enamel were in 1965, from that point she developed her artistic activity as […]
I am an artist and my studio is in the Uden area. I work with goldsmith design and attended four years of evening drawing school and two years of Paris art school. Besides the CKI I am also a member of the artist group Kubra, which unites artists from Brabant. […]
My name is Rob Vermeer. I was born in Amsterdam in 1946 and I am currently living in Valkenswaard in the Netherlands. I am an autodidact in arts and have been painting for many years. Apart from painting in oil and acrylic, I started to work with enamel and became […]
Material Round copper blank Copper wire Enamel (powdered fondant enamel, wet black enamel, transparent chip enamel) Painting brush Tin plummet scissors Side cutter Rosary pliers Modeling tool Tweezers File Grinding block Firing sieve Instruction Draw spiral shape on copper blank and cut it out Bend the copper wire and place […]
Born on 8th of April 1941, Hedi Hentschel completed an education at the artisan training workshop in Duisburg and studied textile design at the Textile Engineering School in Krefeld. She worked as a textile designer in the studio Derichsweiler and Hillers in Krefeld, took numerous courses in weaving techniques and […]