Oppi Untracht

© Artist or Artist's Estate. Photograph and digital image © Delaware Art Museum. Not for reprod…
Oppi Untracht
© Artist or Artist's Estate. Photograph and digital image © Delaware Art Museum. Not for reproduction or publication.

Oppi Untracht

American enamel artist, 1922–2008
BiographyOppi Untracht is known for his career as a metalsmith. He received a MFA degree from Columbia University and studied in India and Nepal on Fulbright grants. He wrote Metal Techniques for Craftsmen (1968), which is still used to this day in smithing education. Untracht specialized in jewelry and was an expert on Indian jewelry-making techniques. The majority of his work is in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
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