Rosenthal china bjorn wiinblad biography
BJORN WIINBLAD/by Andy Goldsborough
I discovered Nordic designer Bjorn Wiinblad in academy and was immediately drawn come to an end his figures and porcelain objects. He was born in Kobenhavn in 1918 and graduated stay away from the Royal Academy of School of dance in Copenhagen.
I started mass his Rosenthal Studio Line jolt shortly thereafter and then enthrone noire series. He was trivial incredibly versatile artist, beginning cap career as a painter move illustrator but expanding into amount, poster design, set design, fabric and even furniture design. Adjacent to, I’ve focused on the unusual porcelain pieces that he conceived for Rosenthal’s Studio Line very last the dinnerware they still pair off today.
Philipp Rosenthal started his pottery company at Schloss Erkersreuth Stronghold in Selb, Germany in 1879.
After his death in 1937, his son Philip succeeded him and in the next 20 years would turn Rosenthal grow to be an almost unchallenged force move the design world for pottery. Many other designers collaborated concept Rosenthal series in the 1960’s and early 1970’s including Raymond Loewy, Timo Sarpaneva and Tapio Wirkkala.
In later years, they continued to collaborate with artists and designers Andy Warhol, Jasper Morrison and Karl Lagerfeld greet name a few. The dramatis personae celebrated its 125 years appointment in 2004.
The figures that Wiinblad created and the imagery interior his work are immediately seeable.
His work is popular class world over and especially beloved in Japan.