Lydia Hirte

Biography

Born in Baar near Augsburg/Augusta (Germany),

lives and works in Dresden, Germany

Education

1986-1992: Jewelry design at the University of Applied Sciences Schwäbisch-Gmünd and the University of Applied Sciences (FHG) Pforzheim by Jens-Rüdiger Lorenzen and Johanna Dahm

1990 Field works with John Gèrard (paper artist) Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin

1986 Field works with Waldemar Artmann (Silversmith), Regensburg

Awards

Arts & Crafts Design Award - Certificate of Excellence, 2017

Arts & Crafts Design Award - Certificate of Excellence, 2016

Young Artist Award of the Johann-Michael-Maucher-Competition, Schwäbisch Gmünd, 1991

Recommended by Homo Faber Guide, 2024

Finalist Danner-Preis 2008, Danner-Preis 2014, Danner-Preis 2017

Exhibitions

Exhibitions in Museums and Special Exhibitions

• Schmuck 2024, special exhibition of the International Crafts Fair (IHM), Munich, DEU
  

• ‘To be human’, Thereza Pedrosa Gallery, guest of Quittenbaum art auctions at Munich Jewellery Week, Munich, DEU, 2024
  

• 'Kontraste', the exhibition of the members of the Bayerischer Kunstgewerbeverein (BKV), Gallery of the BKV, Munich, DEU, 2023
  
• 'What dreams are made of', Thereza Pedrosa Gallery, guest of Quittenbaum Art Auctions at Munich Jewellery Week, Munich, DEU, 2023
  
• International Paper Art Biennal, Kunststichting Perspektief vzw, Gemeenschapscentrum Den Breughel, Haacht, BEL, 2022
  
•  CODA Paper Art, CODA Museum Appeldoorn, NL (C), 2021/22
  
• `Feasts on Paper’ 2021, Shanghai International Paper Art Biennale, Fengxian Museum, Shanghai, CHN
•  International Trade Fair 2020: IHM Munich (due to Corona exhibited at the showrooms of the BKV – Bayr. Kunstgewerbeverein.) Munich, DE
• Grassi Fair, Grassi-Museum Leipzig, DE, 2019
  
• Beijing International Jewelry Art exhibition, Beijing, CHN, 2019
  
• Révélations – Biennale internationale métiers d’art et de la creation, Grand Palais, (with Grassi for Friends, curated by Schnuppe von Gwinner), Paris, FR, 2019
• 4th Triple Parade. Biennale of Contemporary Jewellery, How Art Museum - Design Center, Shanghai, CHN, 2018-2019, (C)
• Danner-Preis. Villa Stuck, München, DE, 2017-2018 (C)
• ETHNO. Art Gallery Arka, Vilnius, LT (C), 2017
• Les Confluences. Ramon Casas i la joieria contemporània, Museu del Modernisme de Barcelona, ESP, 2016  (C)
• Asia - Europe II. Fiber Art (traveling exhibition) (C)
  • Janina-Monkute Marks Museum Kediainiai, LT, 2015
  • Museé Jean Lurcat et de la Tapisserie Contemporaine Angers, FR, 2014/2015
  • Deutsches Textilmuseum Krefeld, DE, 2014
• Danner-Preis, Museum Schloss Johannisburg, Aschaffenburg, DE, 2014-2015 (C)
• JUST PAPER (special exhibition), EUNIQUE, Karlsruhe, DE, 2015
• CODA PAPER ART, CODA Museum Apeldoorn, NL, 2013
• Premio Fondazione Cominelli, Palazzo Cominelli, Cisano de San Felice del Benaco, Italy 2012 (C) and 2010 (C)
• Santorini Biennale of Arts, Santorini, Greece, 2012
• Papier global 2 - Paper global 2 (International Triennale of Paper Art), Museen der Stadt Deggendorf, Germany, 2012 (C)
• Small Size Works (Fiber Art from Asia and Europe), Janina Monkute-Marks Museum,  Kedainiai, Lithuania, 2012 (C on CD)
• Open Mind (International Contemporary Metal Craft: Trend and Vision), Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul, South Korea 2011 (C)
• 7e Triennale Internationale du papier, Musée de Charmey, Switzerland 2011 (C)
• Holland Paper Bienniale 2010, Rijswijk Museum, Rijswijk, the Netherlands 2010 (C)
• Selected works of the Holland Paper Biennale, Knitting and Stitching Show, London, UK, 2010
• Gioielli di carta (Paper Jewellery: poor jewellery), Triennale Design Museum, Milano, Italy 2009 (C)
• Danner-Award 2008, Museum für Gegenwartskunst ‘Glaspalast’, Augsburg (Augusta), 2008 (C)
• Schmuck 2005, special exhibition of the International Crafts Fair (IHM), Munich, 2005 (C); Schmuck, 1999 (C); Schmuck 1998 (C)
• International Jewellery Arts - 15 Years Gallery Slavik’, Gallery Slavik, Vienna, 2005
• Special exhibition of the Passione International Frankfurt Fair, Frankfurt, 2004
• 4. Inhorgenta Design Podium, Munich, Germany, 2003
• Extract: Young Jewelry Designers in Germany, Bauhaus-Archiv Museum für Gestaltung, Berlin, 2002 (C)
• International Paper Art, selected by Hilde Leiss, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, 2000
• Form Tendence, Frankfurt, 2000
• Grassi-Museum: Grassi ‘98, selected works of the Grassi-Fair, Leipzig, 1998
• The Art of Adornment, Schmuckmuseum Pforzheim and Gallery Marzeé, Njimwegen, 1996 (C)

Galleries

Works for sale

• Thereza Pedrosa Gallery, Asolo, Italy
  
• BKV Munich

Solo exhibitions

• Gallery Profil, Regensburg, Germany, 2001 (solo exhibition)
• Gallery of the BBK (Association of Fine Artists), Ingolstadt, Germany, 1999 (solo exhibition)
• Gallery Lous Martin, Delft, the Netherlands, 1997 (solo exhibition)
• Gallery Hertha Zaunschirm, Zurich, Switzerland, 1992 (with Viola Schwalm and Maximilian Miller).

Galleries until 2004

• Gallery Alternatives, Rome, Italy, 2004
• expo arte smykkdesign, Oslo, Norway, 2003
• Gallery Hilde Leiss, Hamburg, Germany, 2001, 2003
• Gallery Handwerk, Koblenz, Germany, 1994, 2003
• Gallery Sculptures to wear, Los Angeles, 2001 Gallery Helga Malten, Dortmund, Germany, 2001
• Gallery Brodhag & Wörn, Berlin, Germany, 1999
• Gallery Slavik, Vienna, Austria, 1994, 1997, 1999
• Gallery Michéle Zeller, Bern, Switzerland, 1996, 1997, 1998

Others

• SOFA New York 2002-2008 (with The Davids Collection)
• SOFA Chicago 2002-2008  (with The Davids Collection)
• REDES/NETS: International Exhibition of Small Format Textile Works, Madrid 1999
• Ars ornata, Straßbourg 1997

Bibliography

Portraits

• Vision Magazine October 2016: Lydia Hirte
• Kirsten Jäschke: Dynamisches Fließen. Papierschmuck von Lydia Hirte, in: Kunsthandwerk & Design,   September/Oktober, 05/2010, pp. 20-27 (cover image + 17 images).
• Frank van der Ploeg:  Lydia Hirte. Resistance, in: Anna Klosterboer & Frank van der Ploeg: Holland Paper Biennale 2010. Catalogue of the exhibition at the Museum Rijswijk and Coda Museum Appeldoorn,  08.06.-12.09.2010, Rijswijk: Museum Rijswijk, 2010, pp. 52-55 (5 images).
• Claudia Heitzler: Lydia Hirte - Fächergeschichten, in: Schmuck Magazin, 1/1997, p. 89 (6 images).

Books

• Paper Art III. Berkeley: Gingko-Press and Guangzhou: Artpower, 2024, pp. 22-29 (12 images)
  
• Grupo Duplex: Joyeria Contemporánea (Contemporary Jwellery), Anuaria (Yearbook), 2018-2019, 2018 (1 image).
• Paper Art II. Berkeley: Gingko-Press and Guangzhou: Artpower, 2015, pp. 2-5 (14 images).
• Art Jewelry Today: Europe. Catherine Mallet (ed.), Schiffer Publishing, 2014 (front cover, 8 images).
• Paper Play. Berkeley: Gingko-Press 2014, pp. 104-105 (5 Images).
• 500 Paper Objects. Gene McHugh (ed.), Ashville: Lark Books, 2013 (back cover + introduction, 7 images).
• Jewel Book. International Annual of Contemporary Jewel Art 12/13. Oostkamp: stichting kunstboek. 2012 (2 images).
• Paper Works. Berkeley: Gingko-Press and Guangzhou: Sandu Publishing, pp. 194-195 (9 images).
• Papercraft 2. Design and Art with Paper. Robert Klanten & Birga Meyer (eds.), Berlin: Gestalten, 2011. (p. 142, 7 images)
• et cetera pp. Oder wie man anfängt kleine Dinge zu tun. Jens Rüdiger Lorenzen. Christina Pauls & Caroline Weiss (eds.), Pforzheim: Pro Business digital printing Deutschland GmbH, 2010.
• Paper Jewellery (Design and Make). Sarah Kelly (ed.), London: A&C Black, 2011 (p. 115, 1 image).

Catalogues

• Barbara Schmidt (ed.): Schmuck 2024, Handwerkskammer für München und Oberbayern, München (1 image).
• Danner-Stiftung: Danner-Preis 2017, Deutscher Kunstverlag GmbH Berlin München.
• Nichka Marobin (ed).: Les Confluences. Ramon Casas and contemporary jewellery. Catalogue of the exhibition at the Museu del Modernisme de Barcelona, 22. September - 16. October 2016, Barcelona (1 image)
• Francoise de Loisy (ed.): Asie Europe 2. Art Textile Contemporain . Catalogue of the exhibition at museé Jean-Lurcat et de la tapisserie contemporaine d'Angers, 20. May - 16. September, 2015 (1 image).
• Danner-Stiftung: Danner-Preis 2014, Deutscher Kunstverlag GmbH Berlin, München (3 images)
• Brigitta Petschek-Sommer & Ulrike Schwarz (eds.): Papier Global 2. Catalogue of the exhibition at the two Museum of the City of Deggendorf, Germany, 28. June 2014 - 04. September 2015 (2 images).
• Rosanne Padrinni & Maria Rosa Franzin & Rosella Tornquist (eds.): Premio per il gioiello contemporaneo Fondazione Cominelli. Catalogue of the exhibition at Palazzo Cominelli, Cisano de San Felice/Brescia, 01.09.-30.09.2012. Brescia: Fondazione Raffaelo Cominelli and AGC Associazione Gioiello Contemporaneo, 2010. (1 image).
• Sungkok Art Museum: Open Mind. (International Contemporary Metal Craft: Trend and Vision). Catalogue of the exhibition at the Sungkok Art Museum 10.11.-25.12.2011, Seoul (2 images). 
• Musée Charmey: 7e Triennale Internationale du papier. Viviane Fontaine. Catalogue of the exhibition at the Musée Charmey, Switzerland, 08.05.-02.10. 2011.(4 images).
• Rosanne Padrinni & Maria Rosa Franzin & Rosella Tornquist (eds.):Premio per il gioiello contemporaneo Fondazione Cominelli. Catalogue of the exhibition at Palazzo Cominelli, Cisano de San Felice/Brescia, 11.09.-03.10.2010. Brescia: Fondazione Raffaelo Cominelli and AGC Associazione Gioiello Contemporaneo, 2010. (1 image).
• Alba Cappellieri & Bianca Cappello (eds.): Gioielli di carta. Paper Jewellery. Catalogue of the exhibition, Triennale Design Museum of Milano, 15.09.-25.10.2009, Milano: Electa, 2009  (2 images).
• Gert Bruckner (ed.): Danner-Preis 2008 / Danner Award 2008, Ausstellungskatalog, Augsburg, H2 - Zentrum für Gegenwartskunst Glaspalast, 17.10.2008 - 06.01.2009, München, Berlin: Danner Stiftung und Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2008 (3 images).
• Eva Maria Hoyer (ed.): Grassimesse Leipzig 2008, Internationales Forum für Angewandte Kunst und Design,    Ausstellungskatalog, Leipzig, GRASSI Museum für Angewandte Kunst,  23.-25.10.2008, Leipzig: GRASSI Museum für Angewandte Kunst, 2008 (1 image).
• Wolfgang Lösche (ed.): Schmuck 2005 / Jewellery 2005, Sonderausstellung IHM, Ausstellungskatalog, München, 10.03.-16.03.2005, München: Gesellschaft für Handwerksmessen GmbH, 2005 (1 image).
• Karsten Hintz (ed.):extrakt : junge schmuckdesigner in deutschland, Ausstellungskatalog, Berlin, BauhausArchiv, 14.05.-02.06.2002, Berlin: Bauhaus-Archiv GmbH, 2002 (3 images).
• Peter Nickl (ed.): Schmuck ´99,  Sonderausstellung IHM, Katalog, München, 18.03.-24.03.1999,  München: Bayerischer Handwerkstag e.V., 1999 (1 image).
• Peter Nickl (ed.): Schmuck ´98, Sonderausstellung IHM, Katalog, München, 07.03.-13.03.1998,
• München: Bayerischer Handwerkstag e.V., 1998 (pp.56-57, (1 image).
• Ars Ornata Europeana, 3éme symposium international du bijou contemporain, Straßburg, 1997 (1 image).
• Fritz Falk & Jens-Rüdiger Lorenzen (eds.): Schmücken. Art of adornment, Hochschule für Gestaltung.
• Fachhochschule Pforzheim, Studiengang Schmuck und Gerät 1965-1995, Katalog zur Wanderausstellung,  Pforzheim, Schmuckmuseum 1995, Stuttgart: Arnoldsche Verlagsanstalt, 1995 (3 images).
• Museum für Natur & Stadtkultur (ed.): Johann-Michael-Maucher-Wettbewerb der Landesgirokasse  und der Stadt Schwäbisch Gmünd Kunsthandwerk. Katalog,  Schwäbisch Gmünd, Museum für Natur & Stadtkultur, 1991 (1 image).

Articles

• Lina Wang: "Lydia Hirte", Vision Magazin 2016 (8 images)
• Brigitta Petschek-Sommer: Paper Global 2. Internationale Papierkunst Triennale Deggendorf 2012, in: Kunsthandwerk & Design 3/2012, pp. 12-19 (1 image).
• Triennale du Paper, in: rivierart, no. 1 08/2011, p. 29 (1 image).
• Cultuurrijk Rijswijk, in: LEVEN 07, vol. 03 no 07, 2010, p.31 (1 image).
• Papier Biennale 2010: Kunst & Knipwerkin, in: Eigen huisinterieur kunst, June 2010, p. 45-46 (1 image).
• Antonio Nieto: The Luxe Ephemere, in: Le Temps Hors Serie, supplement to Le Temps, 2nd December 2009, pp. 52-54 (1 image).
• Alberto Cavalli: Giochi di Carte, in: Artigianato - tra arte et design, no. 75, Ott/Sett/Nov/2009, pp. 1, 42-47 (cover image, 3 images).
• Uta M. Klotz: Danner-Preis 2008, in: Kunsthandwerk & Design 6/2008, p. 6 (1 image).
• Schmuck Magazin, no. 3, October 2005 (1 image).
• Botschaften des Besonderen. Aktueller Desingschmuck auf der Inhorgenta Europe 2003, in: GZ Goldschmiede Zeitung, 1/2003, pp. 40-55 (1 image).
• Peter Henselder: Colors, Forms, Materials -- in Munich, the design scene backs original ideas, in: GZ Art + Design, 2, spring 2003, pp. 40-51 (1 image).
• Bauhaus-Archiv: Extrakt - Junge Schmuckdesigner in Deutschland, in: Kultura extra. Das online-Magazin. Oktober 2004 (1 image),
• Tendence 2000. Kreative Überraschungen auf der Fachmesse Carat, in: GZ Goldschmiede Zeitung, 8/2000, p.2-61 (p.50, 1 image)