Barbara Seidenath

Barbara Seidenath was born in 1960 in Bavaria, near Munich, Germany.[2] Her father worked in forestry and her mother was a school doctor.[2] Seidenath is married to artist and metalsmith Louis Mueller (born 1943).[3][2]

She studied from 1977 to 1980 at the Staatliche Berufsfachschule für Glas und Schmuck (English: State Vocational School for Jewelry and Glass) in Neugablonz, studying under family friend and jeweler Hermann Jünger.[4][5] During college, Seidenath worked for jeweler Ulrike Bahrs (born 1944) which influenced her use of color in her work.[2] In 1981, she was an exchange student at State University of New York at New Paltz, studying under Robert Ebendorf and Kurt Matzdorf.[6] From 1984 to 1990, Seidenath attended the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich where she received her MFA degree.[2]

For many years she had co-founded a line of jewelry with Lydia Gastroph (born 1957).[2] Seidenath is known for her enamel work,[7] as well as materials like gold, silver, and precious stones.[2] Since the 1990s, she has taught at Rhode Island School of Design and at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts.[2]

Seidenath's work can be found in public museum collections at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art,[8] Los Angeles County Museum of Art,[9] Rhode Island School of Design Museum,[1] Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,[10][11] as well as at others.