Otto Künzli was born in Zurich/ Switzerland in 1948. Works in Munich. Studied at `Schule für Gestaltung Zürich, Metallklasse' in 1965. Graduated  from the `Akademie der Bildenden Künste München' in 1978.

Guest lecturer at the State University of New York, 1986 and at the  Rhode Island  School of Design, Providence RI in 1986, 1987 and 1989. In 1991 he was appointed at the `Akademie der Bildende Künste München' , Chair for  `goldschmiedekunst'. 

Some of the work in public collections : Powerhouse Museum, Sydney; Schmuckmuseum, Pforzheim; Stedelijk Museum,  Amsterdam; The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, München.  Awards : 1990, Françoise van den Bosch Award; 1992, Honorary Fellow of Bezalel Academy Jerusalem, Israel.

See: CHP09