Philosophy

We want to create artistic and handcrafted jewelry of high quality, with influences of great art epochs, past times and the techniques associated with them. Our inspiration also lies in the diversity of nature. Our work is born from the collision of archetypal tools and the most modern technology.

Making jewelry from ethically and environmentally sustainable materials. This means fair wages for workers in metal mining, for example. So also the best possible handling according to today's knowledge to protect nature. We want to create authentic and genuine jewelry.

Each piece of Tamino+Pamina jewelry tells its own story and wants to touch people. We are guided by what inspires us, a simple walk in the forest, long journeys to other cultures or art exhibitions. At Tamino+Pamina, old and re-learned craft methods merge with the most modern techniques. Thus, our jewelry design is composed of an intuitive play of color and composition, other times we calculate a filigree work of shapes and materials.

Biography

Tim Elwert

Birgitta Voigt

Tim Elwert has always been attracted to jewelry and precious stones. With his fifth year of life in 1999, he expressed the clear desire to become a goldsmith. He filled his free time by internships in the workshops of various goldsmiths, such as Gernot Leibold, Helge Berger and Petra Sentner, until he finally begins his own professional path of the goldsmith in 2011.

From 2011 to 2015, master goldsmith and jewelry designer Helge Berger teaches him the highest precision in classical jewelry techniques. From 2015 to 2021, Tim expands his horizons of goldsmithing and design possibilities by working extraordinarily for the internationally renowned jewelry artist Otto Jakob. Here he learns to express his inner worlds through the design of jewelry. His self-study of art history of different cultures and eras inspires and influences him along the way.

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Birgitta Voigt moves through various artistic disciplines. Her first sense of aesthetics she experiences early in music. From sounds and compositions it leads her through various art forms to goldsmithing. Here Birgitta arrives and finds metaphorical as well as actual tools to express her inspiration. Various teachers and masters such as steel sculptor and designer Andreas Helmling, graduate jewelry designer Renate Pukis with master goldsmith Tobias Ueberschaer, goldsmith Katja Ehmke and the gallery Goldaffairs train and shape Birgitta.

In December 2018, she wins the performance competition in the German craft as the 2nd state winner of Rhineland-Palatinate and thus begins her self-employment. In 2019 she wins the Inhorgenta Award with her piece "kleine Welt im Handgepäck" (small world in your hand luggage), a jewelry kaleidoscope. She receives this from Europe's largest jewelry fair, Inhorgenta, for the category 'Design Newcomer of the Year'.