Alexander Blank

1975, Büdingen, Germany

Alexander Blank owes his current career as a  jewellery artist not to an early vocation, but to a combination of circumstances. After an apprenticeship with a photographer slipped through his fingers, he turned to the photograph’s neighbor, a goldsmith, out of spite. After two years as an apprentice, he continued his technical vocational training in Hanau and then Hanover, before joining the Hanau Design Academy, where he discovered the discipline of contemporary jewellery and a whole world of possibilities. After graduating in 2004, he continued his studies at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts under Otto Künzli, where he remained until 2010. He was awarded the Herbert Hoffmann Preis in 2012, and his work can be found in many prestigious public and private collections, including : in Germany, the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich and the Kestner Museum in Hanover ; the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh, Scotland ; the CODA Museum in Apeldoorn, the Netherlands ; and the Hiko Mizuno Collection in Japan. Since 2010 he has lived and worked in Munich, Germany.