Sigvard Bernadotte
Sigvard Oscar Fredrik Bernadotte Count of Wisborg (born June 7, 1907 at Drottningholm Palace ; † February 4, 2002 in Stockholm ) was a Swedish count , designer , illustrator and former prince, Duke of Uppland , son of the Swedish King Gustav VI. Adolf and the Crown Princess Margareta ( Margaret of Connaught ).
Life and education
Bernadotte took 4th place in the Swedish line of succession behind his grandfather, his father and his older brother Gustav Adolf (1906-1947). When his great-grandfather King Oskar II died on December 8, 1907, he moved up to third place.
After studying in Uppsala , Sigvard Bernadotte was accepted at the Konstfack Art School in Stockholm in 1930 , where he specialized in decoration. He studied a. a. with Professor Olle Hjortzberg , who has been said to have had a lasting influence on Bernadotte's tight and focused design. Bernadotte was very interested in film and theater, he studied at the State School for Applied Arts in Munich (forerunner of the Academy of Fine Arts Munich ) and worked as an assistant director in Berlin .
Marriages and offspring
- 1. Marriage (March 8, 1934) to the bourgeois German Erika Patzek (* July 12, 1911 - July 30, 2007), divorced in 1943, no children
- 2nd marriage (October 26, 1943) to the bourgeois Danish Sonja Robbert (* October 12, 1909 - May 21, 2004), divorced in 1961, the son Michael Bernadotte (* August 21, 1944)
- 3. Marriage (June 30, 1961) to the bourgeois Swede Gullan Marianne Lindberg (born July 15, 1924).
Since the Swedish king had not consented to either the first or subsequent marriages, Sigvard Bernadotte lost his royal title and his place in the Swedish throne in 1934. Sigvard Bernadotte tried several times in vain to get a prince title recognized by the king. From 1951 he was allowed to use a Luxembourgish count title and was also called Prince Bernadotte in the nobility . From 1983 he let himself be called "Prince Sigvard Bernadotte".
Sigvard's coat of arms as Prince of Sweden
Prince Sigvard Bernadotte in the nobility of Luxembourg
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From 1930 Bernadotte worked alongside his studies as a silver designer for the Danish company Georg Jensen Sølvsmedie A / S in Copenhagen . His silver creamer from 1938 was brought back onto the market by Georg Jensen in 2002, now larger than a chrome-plated thermos, and the cutlery series model 9 Bernadotte from 1939 is still in production today. On a trip to New York City in 1937 he met the design greats Raymond Loewy , Donald Deskey and Henry Dreyfuss . This encounter certainly had significance for the later specialization as an industrial designer. After the Second World War he became artistic director at Georg Jensen. There he designed many silver products in modern Scandinavian design. All of his silver work was stamped Sigvard - a matter of course for a prince.
In 1950 he started the Copenhagen design company Bernadotte & Bjørn Industridesign A / S with branches in New York and Stockholm together with the Dane Acton Bjørn . Many of the design classics such as the stainless steel kitchen series for Modernum from 1954 and the stackable, non-slip bowl series Margrethe from 1950 made of melamine for Rosti Bakelitfabrik were created there . The clients included Husqvarna , Bang & Olufsen , Facit , AGA , General Electric (ESGE Magic Wand 1961), Danfoss and Elektro-Helios. From 1953 to 1954 he took part in the major touring exhibition Scandinavian Design in the USA and Canada and at the Triennials in Milan in 1951 and 1954 he was awarded a gold and silver medal for his work.
In 1964 Bernadotte and Bjørns parted ways and Bernadotte Design AB started in Stockholm. The office designed countless industrial products, including an aircraft service for SAS Scandinavian Airlines , outboard engines for Volvo Penta , forklifts for ASEA , company logos for Alfa Laval and the chocolate company Marabou, and in 1971 a videophone for Ericsson . He always tried to combine ergonomics , function and beauty. One of the last orders in 1972 was the design of a new subway car for the Stockholm subway.
In 1972 the office closed due to a lack of orders. However, Bernadotte never stopped working as a designer: in 1997, at the old age of 90, he presented a glass service for the Fyrklövern company . Sigvard Bernadotte was the first European designer to be elected to the American Designers Institute (ADI).
ancestors
| Pedigree of Sigvard Bernadotte | ||||||||
| Great-great-grandparents |
 King Oskar I (1799–1859) ⚭ 1823 Princess Josephine Beauharnais von Leuchtenberg (1807–1876) |
Duke Wilhelm I of Nassau (1792–1839) ⚭ 1829 Princess Pauline of Württemberg (1810–1856) |
Grand Duke Leopold of Baden (1790-1852) ⚭ 1819 |
Kaiser Wilhelm I (1797–1888) ⚭ 1829 Princess Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1811–1890) |
Duke Ernst I of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1784–1844) ⚭ 1817 Princess Luise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (1800–1831) |
Prince Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent and Strathearn (1767–1820) ⚭ 1818 Princess Victoire of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (1786–1861) |
Prince Carl of Prussia (1801–1883) ⚭ 1827 Princess Marie of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1808–1877) |
Duke Leopold IV of Anhalt-Dessau (1794–1871) ⚭ 1818 Princess Friederike of Prussia (1796–1850) |
| Great grandparents |
King Oskar II (1829–1907) ⚭ 1857 Princess Sophia of Nassau (1836–1913) |
Grand Duke Friedrich I of Baden (1826–1907) ⚭ 1856 Princess Luise of Prussia (1838–1923) |
Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1819–1861) ⚭ 1840 Queen Victoria of Great Britain and Ireland (1819–1901) |
Prince Friedrich Karl Nikolaus of Prussia (1828–1885) ⚭ 1854 Princess Maria Anna of Anhalt-Dessau (1837–1906) |
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| Grandparents | | King Gustav V (1858–1950) ⚭ 1881 Princess Viktoria of Baden (1862–1930) |
Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn (1850–1942) ⚭ 1879 Princess Luise Margareta of Prussia (1860–1917) |
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| parents |
King Gustav VI. Adolf (1882–1973) ⚭ 1905 Princess Margaret of Connaught (1882–1920) |
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| Sigvard Bernadotte | ||||||||
swell
- Sigvard Bernadotte Design. National Museum Stockholm, Utställningskatalog, 1997.
- Svensk Industridesign. Nordstedts Förlag, 1997.
- Industrial Design A – Z. Taschen , Cologne 2000.
- Charlotte and Peter Fiell: Scandinavian Design , Taschen, Cologne 2002, ISBN 3-8228-5716-5 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Mémorial du Grand Duché de Luxembourg. August 13, 1951, p. 1135.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bernadotte, Sigvard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bernadotte, Sigvard Oscar Fredrik (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish illustrator and designer, Prince of Sweden and Duke of Uppland |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 7, 1907 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Drottningholm Palace near Stockholm |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 4, 2002 |
| Place of death | Stockholm |