Claude Wesel

Claude Wesel was born on February 5, 1942 in Brussels.

After training at the School of Crafts in Maredsous where he was introduced to metal work, then at La Cambre where he chose to move towards graphics and advertising, he quickly forged a strong distinctive personality in a field still not very open to modernity. In 1969, he participated in the international exhibition “Art et Bijoux” within the group of artists called “Atelier Demaret” founded by André Lamy and Fernand Demaret. This is particularly within
from this workshop that he asserts his style. Using traditional noble materials, gold and precious stones, he will also include contemporary materials unusual in jewelry in his rings, pendants and necklaces. Rubber and transparent or colored plexiglass will be part of this. These associations as well as the technological contribution close to a mechanical, technical and, on the contrary, biological vision, will make him one of the most unique figures in the field.

Following the burglary of the gallery he had opened with his daughter Fabienne in Waterloo, this already discreet man
further removed from the world. On the other hand, his works, some of which have been acquired by renowned museums both
in Belgium (Diamond Museum in Antwerp), in Germany (Scmuckmuseum in Pforzheim) and in the United States (Museum of
Fine Arts of Houston), are regularly exhibited in reference places.

He died on December 29, 2014 in Brussels.