Danish Ceramics

Most of us are familiar with Royal Copenhagen China, Danish modern wooden furniture or the heavy sculptured silver from Denmark, but few of us have a chance to see the variety of pottery created by the contemporary Studio Potters, ceramic artists who work in their studios or workshops.
Danish ceramics manage to seem primitive and modern simultaneously, and their scope and diversity are impressive. Danish ceramic is practical as well as beautiful. They are made to be functional, not just a pretty object for a china cupboard or a sculpture to exhibit.
Most ceramic artists from Denmark have served as artists in residence at one of the two leading ceramic factories; Bing & Grondahl or Royal Copenhagen. As it is a small country, most of the designers are familiar with each other’s work. There is generally a solid linear or geometric patterning in the design. Natural earth colours are used in blue or bluish-grey are favourite colours. The shapes are solid and simple classic forms.

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Grethe Meyer (1918–2008) was a Danish architect, ceramicist, and designer known for her tableware designs for Royal Copenhagen and numerous prestigious awards and exhibitions.Read More →

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Gunhild Åberg (b.1939) is a Danish Ceramicist. She runs her ceramic gallery and studio in Lille Strandstræde 14 A (earlier known as Strandstræde Keramik) in Copenhagen. In her studio, she handcrafts and fires all of her ceramic artworks, which are all unique. Read More →

Vase designed by Arnold Krog (1898)

Arnold Krog (1856–1931) was a Danish architect, painter, and designer. He is remembered for his achievements as artistic director of Royal Copenhagen from 1884–1916. He introduced a new style with inspiration from Japanese imagery and European naturalism to the porcelain industry.Read More →

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Christian Joachim was a Danish Ceramicist (1870-1943). Between 1889 he studied at the Det Kongelige Danske Kunstakademi, Copenhagen.

Between 1897 and 1900, Joachim made ceramics with George Jensen in a workshop outside Copenhagen. Between 1901 to 1933 worked for the Royal Copenhagen Porcelain Manufactory, where Arno Malinowski sometimes decorated his restrained neoclassical forms. Read More →

Anders Liljefors (1923-1970), a Swedish ceramicist, innovated with sand moulding technique, redefining Swedish ceramics, and exhibiting influential works in the 1950s and 1960s.Read More →

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After the second world war, Jens Harald Quistgaard was apprenticed in the Georg Jensen Solvsmedie in Copenhagen. He has experimented with various media such as wood, metal, glass, steel and ceramics. Ted Nierenberg, the founder of Dansk International, noticed him because of his distinctively Danish craft aesthetic.Read More →

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A stackable and sustainable stool produced entirely from waste pieces is created by combining pieces cut from round and elliptical shaped tables.Read More →