Specialties

Wolfers Frères

• Court Jewelers
• Trained under his father gaining the skills of a goldsmith and jeweler.

1870-1890s

• Influenced by Japanese craftwork and naturalism in the French Art Nouveau style.
• Set up his own workshop in Brussels
• Worked with ivory.

1889

• Built an Art Nouveau villa at La Hulpe where he studied flowers, insects, peacocks, swans, bats, etc.
• His designs became quite distinct from those of Wolfers Frères often sinister and surreal.
• International Exhibition, Antwerp, 1894 & exhibition of Les Vingt, Brussels, 1895 – showcased carved ivory.

1902-1904

• Plique-à-Jour enamel, gems and gold insects.
• Supplied Cartier with small serpent jewels.

c.1908

• His work became more geometric and abstract.
• Turned away from jewelry to create sculpture.