Elisabeth Treskow

Place: Bochum

Born: 1898

Death: 1992

Biography:

Elisabeth Treskow was a German goldsmith and jewellery designer, one of the earliest professional women in the field. She was born in Bochum, Germany in 1898. After serving an apprenticeship under Karl Rothmüller in Munich, she worked with the bookbinder Frida Schoy in the artists' colony in the Margarethenhöhe district of Essen. Around 1930, she rediscovered the Etruscan art of granulation and went on to win several first prizes in Germany as well as a Gold Medal at the 1937 Paris World Fair. Her work is in the collections of museums in Germany and abroad, including London's Victoria & Albert Museum and Cologne's Museum für Angewandte Kunst. She died in 1992.