Jules Brenner

(1917-1991) Born in New York City, he studied and trained painting and sculpting. In the late 1940's he moved to Provincetown where he worked with Ed Wiener creating "large, functional objects hammered from copper and brass". He turned to jewelry as his primary focus in 1951, and he and his wife opened a summer shop in Woodstock, NY. In 1953 he moved back to Greenwich Village and at the time, he worked mostly with Sterling Silver using simple biomorphic shapes with added wire and sometimes semi-precious stones. In 1963 he began to work with gold in a more naturalistic style using a combination of handwork and lost-wax casting.