Friday, April 2, 2010

 

Acclaimed Danish silversmith Georg Jensen (1866-1935) and the renowned group of designers who helped establish the company he founded as one of the world's most important silverwares firms will be the subject of Georg Jensen Silversmiths, on view in the Museum's Contemporary Design Gallery (170). The features some 40 examples of Georg Jensen Inc.'s innovative flatware and holloware, including original design drawings for many of the objects. The exhibition is supported by Collab. The Group for Modern and Contemporary Design at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, which will honor Georg Jensen and Georg Jensen, Inc.

"Georg Jensen forged a unique new style that was at once universal and versatile," says Kathryn Hiesinger, Curator of Decorative Arts after 1700 at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. "Whether a teapot richly decorated with natural forms or a centerpiece left chastely simple, each Jensen object is a complete sculptural statement defined by the clarity of its contours." In addition to examples of Jensen's own designs, objects by many of the artists whose work has helped define the Georg Jensen style over the years will also be on view, including Johan Rohde, Harald Nielsen, Sigvard Bernadotte, Soren Georg Jensen, Henning Koppel, Magnus Stephensen, and Verner Panton. Among the highlights will be drawings for and pieces from Georg Jensen's celebrated 1905 Blossom service the lids are decorated with a full magnolia bud and silverwares and drawings by Soren Georg Jensen and Henning Koppel, whose abstract, expressive shapes in the mid-20th century led the firm in new directions that have continued to the present.

Other highlights include drawings for and pieces from Jensen's celebrated 1905 Blossom service, the lids of which are decorated with a full magnolia bud, and silverwares and drawings by Soren Georg Jensen and Henning Koppel, whose abstract, expressive shapes in the mid-20th century led the firm in new directions that have continued to the present. At once universal and versatile, each Jensen object is a complete sculptural statement defined by the clarity of its contours. Please purchase on online http://www.etabletop.com/

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From childhood, Jensen had longed to be a sculptor and he now pursued this course of study at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts. He graduated in 1892 and began exhibiting his work. Although his clay sculpture was well received, making a living as a fine artist proved difficult and he turned his hand to the applied arts. First as a modeller at the Bing & Grøndahl porcelain factory and, beginning in 1898, with a small pottery workshop he founded in partnership with Christian Petersen. Again the work was well received, but sales were not strong enough to support Jensen, by this point a widower, and his two small sons.
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