Elisabeth Treskow

After serving an apprenticeship under Karl Rothmüller [de] in Munich, in 1923 she worked with the bookbinder Frida Schoy in the artists' colony in the Margarethenhöhe district of Essen.

[2] When business suffered as a result of the economic crisis at the beginning of the 1930s, Treskow carefully examined the granulation technique used by the Etruscans in the first millennium B.C.

Her creations Ehrenring (1933), Schmuckkreuz (1935) and Liebesring (1936) all won first prizes from the Gesellschaft für Goldschmiedekunst (Association for Goldsmiths' Art) in Berlin.

In 1937, she was awarded the gold medal at the Paris World Fair while in 1938 she became the first woman to win the Ring of Honour from the Association for Goldsmiths' Art.

[2] After the end of the Second World War, Treskow was appointed head of the goldsmith class at the re-established Cologne Academy of Fine and Applied Arts where she remained until her retirement in 1964.