Amelie, from the Forgotten Ladies series
This brooch is part of Silvia Walz’s ongoing Forgotten Ladies series (2004–2025), in which the artist revisits remarkable historical women through assemblage and narrative jewellery. Using fragments, references and symbolic composition, each piece becomes a small wearable portrait shaped by memory, history and interpretation.
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Brooch by Silvia Walz
Unique piece
The Amalie brooch is dedicated to Amalie Reinhardt (1903–1997), the artist’s grandmother. In 1939 she was resettled from Ukraine-Volhynia to Poland, and in the winter of 1945 she fled again, travelling with her three daughters and a farmhand from Szostka to Gartow in Germany. The 640-kilometre journey by horse and cart took three months under extreme and dangerous conditions. Delayed at the outset by a broken wheel, she narrowly escaped the violence that befell many others from her village and continued forward with determination and courage.
In Walz’s interpretation, Amalie embodies endurance, maternal strength and the quiet heroism of survival. The brooch holds this layered history within a small sculptural form, transforming a family memory into a universal reflection on displacement, loss and perseverance.
Title: Amalie
Materials: Steel, copper, silver, enamel
Size:
Description
Brooch by Silvia Walz
Unique piece
The Amalie brooch is dedicated to Amalie Reinhardt (1903–1997), the artist’s grandmother. In 1939 she was resettled from Ukraine-Volhynia to Poland, and in the winter of 1945 she fled again, travelling with her three daughters and a farmhand from Szostka to Gartow in Germany. The 640-kilometre journey by horse and cart took three months under extreme and dangerous conditions. Delayed at the outset by a broken wheel, she narrowly escaped the violence that befell many others from her village and continued forward with determination and courage.
In Walz’s interpretation, Amalie embodies endurance, maternal strength and the quiet heroism of survival. The brooch holds this layered history within a small sculptural form, transforming a family memory into a universal reflection on displacement, loss and perseverance.
Title: Amalie
Materials: Steel, copper, silver, enamel
Size:
