Vivianna Torun Bülow-Hübe
Vivianna Torun Bülow- strokes ( born December 4, 1927 in Malmo, † 3 July 2004 in Copenhagen) is the most famous Scandinavian jewelery designer after the Second World War and the first woman who gained worldwide fame as a silversmith. Her major works include the wrist watch " Vivianna ," the bracelet " Mobius " and known as the " Dew Drop" Earrings and Chokers (Georg Jensen ).
Life
Torun Bülow- strokes was the youngest of four children of a family of artists and architects in Malmö and studied from 1945 to 1950 at Konstfack, the Swedish Academy in Stockholm. In 1956 she went to Paris, where she created among others, Brigitte Bardot, Ingrid Bergman and Billie Holiday jewelry. She learned to know Picasso, who invited her to keep in his museum in Antibes in 1958 a special exhibition. She graced the title of Vogue and conquered Paris with her unusual, fine jewelry, which flatters the female body in organic forms. Their reinterpretation of jewelry design represented a radical break with previous conventions dar. On the beach of Antibes collected them stones and combined them with silver, the classic jewelry materials Scandinavia. Since 1967, her works of Georg Jensen Silversmiths in Copenhagen are made. After Georg Jensen himself Torun Bülow - strokes is considered significant Georg Jensen designer. Her jewelry is located at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the Swedish National Museum in Stockholm, the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Montreal, Musée des Arts Décoratifs Le Louvre, Paris, The Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths, London, and in the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich. In 1966, Torun Bülow- strokes of the Subud movement turned to and adopted the second name " Vivianna ". With their two youngest children, Ira ( b. 1956 ) and Marcia (* 1963) drew it in 1968 for a decade after Wolfsburg, Germany, before she went in 1978 after Jakarta, Indonesia, where she almost 25 years engaged in social projects and continue worked in his own workshop. After disease of leukemia in 2003, she returned back to Copenhagen, where she died on July 3, 2004.