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JENS RITTER

Jens Ritter is a German artist. He grew up in a musical environment which aroused his passion and love for the electric guitar culture. In his first creative childhood attempts, Jens has built "electric guitars" out of wire, cookie jars and waste wood and created speaker cabinets using loudspeakers of defective TVs from local dumps. Through this exciting tinkering Ritter discovered his love and passion of expressing himself through creating electric guitar culture related objects and thereby becoming later in his life a part of this culture. 

 

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Sleeping Beauties

"The Sleeping Beauties project was conceived out of Jens Ritters desire to preserve humanity's expression through music. In 2016, he attended a lecture about how Artificial Intelligence is already able to produce music. He was shocked by the vision, that in 100 years, man-made music could be completely gone. To keep the deepest soul-connected human form of expression alive, he came up with the idea to build electric guitars for the future generations: sealed and deactivated masterpieces, stored in a bespoke humidor and sent to a 100 year sleep like astronauts in a cryogenic sleep. But the wake-up-date is clearly specified. A countdown of 36525 days until the guitar will gently weep again ..."

The Blue Rose

Alder, Mahogany, Ebony, Fabric, 750k Whitegold, 2 very rare brillant cut 11mm blue sapphires,
8 blue sapphires brillant cut 3,6mm, Metal and Electronic Components
43" x 18" x 3" | Unique Work of Art | 2018

The Stories on Your Life Live On!

Alder, Mahogany, Ebony, Fabric, Platinum, 24k Gold, Silver, Metal and Electronic Components
43" x 18" x 3" | Unique Work of Art | 2018

The Alcudia Bay 2.0

Quilted Maple, Mahogany, Ebony, High Gloss Lacquer, 24k Gold, 2 brillant cut 5,5mm Paraiba Turmalines, Metal and Electronic Components
43" x 18" x 3" | Unique Work of Art | 2018

The Little Dragon (Alienated by California Dream)

Flamed Maple, Mahogany, Ebony, High Gloss Lacquer, 24k Gold Leaf, blue brillant cut Crystals, Metal and Electronic Components
43" x 18" x 3" | Unique Work of Art | 2018 

View from the Moving Castle

Rare solid piece of Burl Maple, Mahogany, Ebony, High Gloss Lacquer, 750k Whitegold, Metal and Electronic Components
43" x 18" x 3" | Unique Work of Art | 2018

Prince's Ghost in George's Bedroom

Alder, Mahogany, Maple, Fabric, brillant cut Amethysts, Metal and Electronic Components
43" x 18" x 3" | Unique Work of Art | 2018

The Chelsea Flower

Red Cedar, Mahogany, Ebony, Fabric, mixed brillant cut Gem Stones, Metal and Electronic Components
43" x 18" x 3" | Unique Work of Art | 2018

The Carrara Princess

Alder, Mahogany, Ebony, Polyurethane Coating, Metal and Electronic Components
43" x 18" x 3" | Unique Work of Art | 2018

Happy People Conduct the Moments!

Alder, Mahogany, Ebony, Dirty Ebony, 24k Gold Leaf, High Gloss Lacquer, Metal and Electronic Components
43" x 18" x 3" | Unique Work of Art | 2018

Panther's Dark Secret

Alder, Mahogany, Maple, Black Velvet, Acrylic Glass, Metal and Electronic Components
43" x 18" x 3" | Unique Work of Art | 2018

Rock N' Roll Masterpieces

"Besides the conceptual approach of The Sleeping Beauties, on exhibition will be a collection of six highly exceptional and fully playable Rock N' Roll Masterpieces: Exclusive electric guitars personally handpicked by Jens Ritter – representing the state of the art of his workshop. Finest tone woods are combined with extremely exclusive materials. Each masterpiece is telling a unique story like "The Sapphire Velvet" coming with 2 brilliant cut 8mm blue sapphires and a solid Gold Fingerboard Inlay or the "Sandokan" with over 11 thousand Swarovski Crystals single set (!) on the instrument, combined with 24k Gold Fingerboard Inlays. HOHMANN will present Sandokan Number 4 from a series of 8 – Number 2 is already owned by Lady Gaga. Jens Ritter Masterpieces are not only the most exclusive new build electric guitars ever. They are materialized stories – sculptured songs – transforming themselves to desired pieces of art for collectors and music lovers from around the world"

The Blue Dragon

Alder, Mahogany, "Dirty Ebony", Fabric, Metal and Electronic Components
43" x 18" x 3" | Limited edition of 25 (+1AP)

The Paraiba Velvet

Alder, Flamed Mahogany, Italian Velvet, 18k Whitegold, 2 star cut 6mm Paraiba Tourmalines, 7
brillant cut 3mm flawless and perfect white Diamonds Metal and Electronic Components
43" x 18" x 3" | Limited edition of 6 (+1AP) 

The Sapphire Velvet

Alder, Flamed Mahogany, Velvet, 750k Whitegold, 2 brillant cut 8mm blue sapphires (total 4.9ct),
Metal and Electronic Components
43" x 18" x 3" | Unique Work of Art 

The Late Night Diamond

 Alder, Mahogany, Fabric; white acrylic glass; 7, Brillant cut Black Diamonds (3mm) set in white gold, Metal and Electronic Components
43" x 18" x 3" | Limited edition of 6 (+1AP)

The Sandokan (Number 4 0f 8)

Alder, Mahogany, Ebony, Solid 24k Gold Oval Rings Inlays, Each over 11 thousand Swarovky Crystals; Metal and Electronic Components
43" x 18" x 3" | Limited edition of 6 (+2AP)
(Number 2 of 8 is owned by Lady Gaga)

The Green Flora

 Poplar Burl , Mahogany, Makassar Ebony, 18k Gold; Metal and Electronic Components
43" x 18" x 3" | Limited edition of 6 (+1AP)

25th Anniversary of Magic & Freedom

 Alder, Flamed Mahogany, Ebony; 18k Gold; Each over 11 thousand Swarovky Crystals; Metal and Electronic Components
43" x 18" x 3" | Unique Work of Art
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ARTIST STATEMENT

Sculpting Sounds

"For me, creating my artworks is like writing songs. Just like a musician processes and communicates his feelings and thoughts through music, I communicate mine through my works of art. Some of them tell whole stories about my life's extraordinary experiences. Others just reflect fleeting impressions that I consciously or unconsciously came across in everyday life."  - Jens Ritter

Biography

After his studies of mechanical arts, Ritter focused on designing and crafting avant-garde guitars for Prince, Lady Gaga, George Benson, Nile Rodgers, Mary J. Blige, Phil Lesh of the Grateful Dead, Sammy Hagar of Van Halen and other major music production artists. 
But Jens Ritter went further – he finally transformed his electric guitars from "musician's work tools" into high exclusive collector pieces for the fine art world. These art works are materialized songs – Jens Ritter's music.

Jens Ritter's works are collected by major museums like the Smithsonian Museum in Washington D.C, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the MET - Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, among others. 
Today his exclusive masterpieces are owned by famous musicians and collectors from around the world and Jens Ritter has become known as...
"The fusion of Stradivarius and Picasso!” 

 

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