Jens Peter Dahl-Jensen

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Porcelain painter , around 1915, Bing & Grøndahl

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.

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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