Jens Peter Dahl-Jensen
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Jens Peter Dahl-Jensen (actually Jens Peter Jensen ; born July 23, 1874 in Nibe ; † December 12, 1960 in Copenhagen ) was a Danish sculptor. In 1926 he changed his last name from Jensen to Dahl-Jensen .
Dahl-Jensen studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen from 1894 to 1897 . From 1897 to 1917 he was model master at the porcelain company Bing & Grøndahl in Copenhagen and from 1917 to 1925 artistic director of the porcelain factory Norden, also in Copenhagen.
Dahl-Jensen designed small bronze sculptures of predatory animals , but he became known for his figures, especially animal figures made of porcelain with underglaze painting for Bing & Grøndahl . He was the busiest animal modeller in his company, and some of his Art Nouveau living figures are still made at Royal Copenhagen today . In 1925 he started his own business in Husum , and in the same year founded the Dahl-Jensens Porcelainfabrik , Copenhagen, which exported a great deal, mainly to the USA and Italy. In addition to animal figures, he modeled some unusual oriental figurines with rich and strong underglazes here from 1930 to 1958. His wife Martha Dahl-Jensen and his son Georg Dahl-Jensen also worked in the family business, who continued production until 1981 and closed the company in 1984 after the inventory was sold.
literature
- Jens Peter Dahl-Jensen . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 23, Saur, Munich a. a. 1999, ISBN 3-598-22763-9 , p. 418.
- Leo Swane: Dahl-Jensen, Jens . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 8 : Coutan-Delattre . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1912, p. 275 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Jens Peter Dahl-Jensen . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 1 : A-D . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1953, p. 509 .
- JP Dahl-Jensen . In: Weilbach's artist dictionary . ( Kulturarv.dk - 4th edition).
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SURNAME | Dahl-Jensen, Jens Peter |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Jensen, Jens Peter (real name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Danish sculptor and porcelain maker |
DATE OF BIRTH | July 23, 1874 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Nibe |
DATE OF DEATH | December 12, 1960 |
Place of death | Copenhagen |