Barbara Seidenath
Barbara Seidenath (born 1960) is a German-born American jewelry designer, metalsmith, and educator. Biography Barbara Seidenath was born in 1960 in Bavaria, near Munich, Germany. Her father worked in forestry and her mother was a school doctor. Seidenath is married to artist and metalsmith Louis Mueller (born 1943). She studied from 1977 to 1980 at the (English: ''State Vocational School for Jewelry and Glass'') in Neugablonz, studying under family friend and jeweler . During college, Seidenath worked for jeweler Ulrike Bahrs (born 1944) which influenced her use of color in her work. In 1981, she was an exchange student at State University of New York at New Paltz, studying under Robert Ebendorf and Kurt Matzdorf. From 1984 to 1990, Seidenath attended the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich where she received her MFA degree. For many years she had co-founded a line of jewelry with Lydia Gastroph (born 1957). Seidenath is known for her enamel work, as well as materials like gold, si ...
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Bavaria
Bavaria ( ; ), officially the Free State of Bavaria (german: Freistaat Bayern, link=no ), is a state in the south-east of Germany. With an area of , Bavaria is the largest German state by land area, comprising roughly a fifth of the total land area of Germany. With over 13 million inhabitants, it is second in population only to North Rhine-Westphalia, but due to its large size its population density is below the German average. Bavaria's main cities are Munich (its capital and largest city and also the third largest city in Germany), Nuremberg, and Augsburg. The history of Bavaria includes its earliest settlement by Iron Age Celtic tribes, followed by the conquests of the Roman Empire in the 1st century BC, when the territory was incorporated into the provinces of Raetia and Noricum. It became the Duchy of Bavaria (a stem duchy) in the 6th century AD following the collapse of the Western Roman Empire. It was later incorporated into the Holy Roman Empire, became an ind ...
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