About Bernard Cuzner
Lived 1877 – 1956 (aged 78–79). Bernard Cuzner was a British watchmaker, designer, jewelry designer and author.
Bernard Lionel Cuzner (4 November 1877 was an English silversmith and product designer.
Cuzner was born in Alcester in Warwickshire and initially trained as a watchmaker, before showing talent as a silversmith while taking evening classes in Redditch at the Redditch School of Art. He moved to Birmingham to train at the Vittoria Street School of Jewellery and Silversmithing, and Birmingham School of Art where he was influenced by Robert Catterson Smith and Arthur Gaskin. From 1900 he taught at the school and began designing for W. H. Haseler and Liberty & Co.
He was head of the department of metalwork at the Birmingham School of Art from 1910 until 1942.
His work was within the Arts and Crafts style with extensive handwork.
Selected publications Bernard Cuzner, Decorative metal overlay, Dryad Press, Leicester (1931) 45 pages, 23 figures, photo and drawn Bernard Cuzner, A first book of Metal-work, The Dryad Press, Leicester (1931) 162 pages, 6 plates Bernard Cuzner, Silversmith's Manual, NAG Press, London, 1st edition (1935) 224 pages, 133 figures
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British artist
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Bernard Cuzner was born in 1877.
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Bernard Cuzner died on 4 January 1956 in Birmingham.
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