Studied at Meisterschule für das Kunsthandwerk Berlin, Jewellery and Silversmithing Design and Production
1961
1961-1962
Worked with Max Olofs, as a silversmith in Munich Germany, making baptismal fonts, tabernacles, chalices, and other ecclesiastical items
1963
1963-1965
Worked with Sigurd Person (1914-2003) in Stockholm, Sweden, first as a silversmith, then as a jeweller. Person was one of the most influential goldsmiths and industrial designers in Scandinavia in..Read More
1966
1966-1968
Recruited by Córas Tráchtála/Irish Export Board to establish a Silver and Metal Workshop at the newly created Kilkenny Design Workshop [KDW], where he also trained many Irish jewellers
1968
1968
Opened Rudolf Heltzel Ltd., Kilkenny. Independent designer and maker of jewellery hollowear with a studio in Kilkenny which continues to the present day
1979
From 1979
International Consultant to jewellery development and production programmes in Thailand, Sri Lanka, Guyana, Jordan, Philippines, Indonesia and Pakistan
1981
1981-1995
Board Member of Crafts Council Ireland
1984
1984-1987
Worked with Tirnanog Ltd., Northern Ireland as a Production Director, lectured in the Fine Arts department at Queen’s University Belfast
1988
1988-1996
Worked with Esmere Ltd and Avon Arlington Ireland as a Jewellery and Design Consultant
2018
2018
Designed and produced Exhibition celebrating 50 years of Rudolf Heltzel “RUDOLF HELTZEL: In Precious Metal”, National Design & Craft Gallery, Castle Yard, Kilkenny, Ireland
2019
2019
“RUDOLF HELTZEL: In Precious Metal”, The State Apartment Galleries, Dublin Castle, Dublin, Ireland
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