Bronze Casting

Course objective: Cast your own bronze object.

Course content: At the workshop, each participant creates his own mold, into which the liquid bronze is poured. However, post-processing is also necessary to turn the blank into a shiny gold piece.

Historical background: bronze looks confusingly like gold. The earliest bronze objects come from the Near East. All of them are prestige objects that were usually made in gold. Its material properties made bronze a coveted raw material for tools, jewelry and weapons for thousands of years.

Instructor: Lukas J. Kerbler, MA
Course duration: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Course costs: 145 euros
Material contribution: 35 euros