Digital brilliance from the year 1961

Zwönitz, 3 November 2025 - As part of a pilot project, CLAUSS® has digitized an extraordinary gold ring from 1961 in extremely high detail resolution. The piece of jewelry was made in Dessau and stands for an independent, often little-noticed development in jewelry design in post-war modernism.

Jewelry art in East Germany - modern, experimental, constructive

The early 1960s marked a phase of creative renewal in East Germany: many artists and goldsmiths were looking for contemporary formal languages that broke away from the ornamentation of the pre-war period. Instead of representative decoration, the focus shifted to material clarity, technical precision and sculptural structures.

The digitized ring is an authentic example of this approach:

Emergence: early 1960s - a time of new departures in art and design
Material: Gold setting with 20-carat citrine
Design: open, almost architectural construction instead of a classic decorative frame
Idea: the gemstone is not embedded, but visibly "worn" as an independent object
Influences: Bauhaus after-effects, functional design, engineering aesthetics

The result is a piece of jewelry that is as much sculpture as ring - modern in its form, deliberate in its use of material, far removed from the traditional image of prestigious gemstone rings.

Ring during digitization in the CYBERGLOBE®

Digitization as a dazzling challenge

The image was captured using the automatic 3D scanning system CYBERGLOBE® from CLAUSS®.
The technical conditions were demanding:

Highly reflective gold surfaces
Deep light and inclusions in citrine
Finest surface details that could not be "smoothed out"

Thanks to the system, the object could be captured without contact at a level of detail that is almost impossible to achieve even when viewed with a magnifying glass. The result is a freely explorable 3D model - rotatable, zoomable, documentarily precise.

🔗 3D model online:
https://superspl.at/view?id=a6e0fd14

The cover image shown here is taken directly from this data set and shows how constructively the ring is designed: the setting is reminiscent of a technical supporting structure that integrates the solid citrine like a transparent structural element.

With this pilot project, CLAUSS® shows how digital technologies can not only preserve art historical objects, but also make them come alive in a new way:
A ring of German postmodernism - preserved in gold, enhanced in 3D.