Martin Spreng

Biographie

• 1957 born into a familiy of painter and sculptors in Munich, Germany
• 1977-1979 apprenticeship carpenter in Munich
• 1979-1981 works in a known workshop for copies of period furniture in Paris
• 1981 co foundation of xylos, contemporary furniture and interior design
• 1981-2009 contemporary furniture and interior design, new structures on surfaces for imitation of metalls and stones for Cartier a.o., congress center in Stuttgart in Germany, city hall of Paris
• clients: Cartier, the pharmaceutic company Braun Melsungen, conference center Stuttgart, city hall, Paris, France and private collectors
• exibitions and fairs: Paris, Munich, Milan, Geneva, Basel, Chicago, Moscow
• personal creations: big walls of wood inlay work made of colored tropical wood, small objects in the technique of inlay work like cases for artistic books, for jewellery
• 1995-2009
• apprenticeship at the school for goldsmith and jewellery art „Nicolas Flamel, Ecole Boulle“ in Paris, cooperation with the Argentinian goldsmith Luis Tolnay in Paris

Awards

• 2009 „Noces de Bois“ – on the occasion of the 5. anniversary of the gallery Elsa Vanier, Paris

Exhibitions

• 2006 Erste Ausstellung einer Schmuckkollektion, Showroom von Xylos, Paris.
• 2007 Ständige Ausstellung in der Schmuckgalerie Elsa Vanier, Paris
• 2009 Ständige Ausstellung in der Kunst – und Schmuckgalerie Dagmar Stühler, Berlin
• 2010 Ausstellung im Goldschmiedehaus Hanau: „Positionen zur zeitgenössischen Schmuck- und Gerätgestaltung“
• 2010 Ausstellung in Pôle Bijoux in Baccarat, ‚Les bijoux Gemmes‘. Gruppenausstellung
• 2011 Ausstellung in der Kunst- u. Schmuckgalerie ‚Mobillia Gallery‘ in Cambridge (Boston USA)