Daniel Kruger

The jewellery and ceramic artist Daniel Kruger has worked with sketchbooks his entire creative life, serving to capture ideas or to experiment with form and colour. While some sketches are freehand, others seek to solve technical challenges. Some are translated into finished works and, providing the piece of jewellery or ceramic is known, can be easily identified as such; other sketches remain simply ideas. Not least, these books serve as a memoir, preserving found items or noting names of interesting people the artist wishes to remember. In this publication, selected pages from the sketchbooks are presented in chronological order from the 1980s to 2026. Daniel Kruger invites us to explore them and offers a glimpse behind the scenes of his artistic practice. 

Text in English and German.