Michael Eckart was born in West Germany after the Second World War. He spends a lot of time in Japan, Bali and Asia. Venice is like home to him now. When he was young, he wanted to be a photographer or a designer, he always wanted to create something. However, these two passions did not play a major role in his life until much later. In the 1960s, he began designing window displays and building objects for window decoration. At that time, MoMA had requested these objects for an exhibition in New York on contemporary design. This was followed by successful residential and commercial interiors, for which he also designed and made furniture until the mid-1980s. In the late 1980s, the scale of his objects changed. He designed jewelry in buffalo horn, bone, and especially sterling silver. In Paris, where he exhibited his jewelry from 2004 to 2006, he was awarded the "Etoiles de Mode" for best design three times in a row. During his time as a jewelry designer, he had many publications in prestigious glossy magazines such as Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Elle and others. In 2016, his son gave him his old camera. That's when he started taking pictures. In 2024, he participated in his first photography competition and was successful.
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