BJORN WIINBLAD DENMARK UNIQUE GARDEN FIGURINE - 1967 Start Price USD 39,998.00 Current Price USD 39,998.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Tuesday, November 11, 2008 End Time Thursday, December 11, 2008 Location Skoedstrup, Jutland See more about 'BJORN WIINBLAD DENMARK UNIQUE GARDEN FIGURINE - 1967' Description A VERY SPECIAL STUNNING GARDEN FIGURINE from Bjorn Wiinblad (1918-2006) designed abd produced in his own studio. Only produced, more production of semilar cancelled because of problem with special clay.   This in blue/white colour decorated measures about 62 inches in heigh. Handmade and painted by Wiinblads own hand - Signed, on basket: Bjorn Wiinblad and production year 67 (= 1967). The photos from the owner. She was the last full time painter in the studio and get this figurine as a gift to place in her garden, when Bjorn had to cancel this project before production. Happy that she did not place it in the garden the hole year (Due to Danish weather) but have stored at most time in the cellar of her house. (When developed Bjorn wanted a special grey look at pottery where it whitout glaze: Arms, shoulders and breast. He found this look by special swedish Hoganeas clay. But unfortunately it was not good to use because problems with self-bearing. You see the problem at her arms, made in more assempled pieces. Bjorn wanted all to be whitout assemplies.) In perfect mint condition as when designed.  To be shipped by a specialized forwarder - To be delivered in some parts.       SAVE MONEY : Buy more items (look at our shop) and ship together.   BIOGRAPHY: BJØRN WIINBLAD english Apparently, multi-artist Bjørn Wiinblad is gifted with a sparkling fantasy putting him in the position to create exuberant masterpieces of ceramics, which during the years have enthused people across the globe. There is no doubt about his significant position within the decorative art and craftwork. His design is strongly personal and often has a touch of Oriental inspiration.In 1998, when Bjørn Wiinblad celebrated his 80 birthday, the exhibition place Sophienholm in Lyngby north of the Danish capital Copenhagen dedicated a special exhibition to his works through time. For the exhibition a catalogue with text written by Bjørn Wiinblad himself was published. A peculiar tradition in Wiinblad’s family was that the youngsters usually got an education as typesetter, only to find out which line of business they would actually choose later in life. 17 years old Wiinblad followed this tradition and became a typesetters apprentice in 1935. Luckily he left this path as a technical composer of newspaper pages and became an artist.To become a designer was a natural choice for Bjørn Wiinblad who already as a child was renowned for his creative mind. Before Christmas he was always busy drawing, painting, cutting and pasting astonishing gifts for friends and family.Apparently, his calling is to create designs that makes the world a little bit more beautiful, a little more inspiring, a little more funny and often much more colourful. In doing so, he works in many different areas, for example with ceramics, porcelain, glass, posters, decoration for the theatres as well as textiles. In his own words, working with many different kinds of art is “a permanent search for the uncertain – to be a beginner – so that I must exert myself to meet the requirements of the different tasks”. This shall be seen contrary to the artists seeking perfection in one specific area.As a fresh educated typesetter Bjørn Wiinblad joined the school of graphics at the Academy of Art with the aim to become an illustrator. A coincidental meeting with a fellow student changed this plan. The student took Wiinblad to a ceramics workshop where he was invited to decorate a newly thrown clay bowl. “I never forget the moment, I took the cow's horn in my hand and started to decorate – it was big and fortunate moment. When I left the workshop, I knew that I had experienced something special”, Bjørn Wiinblad writes in the above mentioned catalogue.At this time, his preferred work became the decoration of large bowls with cow horn paint, where after pottery tradition clay colour was applied directly on the potsherd.This was followed by an ambivalent period where Bjørn Wiinblad tried to continue his graphical studies and simultaneously by all means tried to work with ceramics. He was happy when he got the opportunity to work solely on his own projects at the workshop of ceramist Lars Syberg in Tåstrup near Copenhagen.In 1945 Bjørn Wiinblad for the first time exhibited his works to the public. The exhibition consisted of ceramics, naturalistic portraits, children's books that he both illustrated and wrote including a complete illustrated edition of Aladdin. In retroperspect this was an important turning point for his future career. In this frame he became acquainted with Jacob E. Bang, who just had been promoted to art director of the faience factory Nymølle. This was Wiinblad’s first contact with industry and also the beginning of a “fortunate collaboration”. .At Nymølle Wiinblad made the finest pen drawings, which was copied to the production by in general monochrome copper engraving. This was a low-cost decoration technique, and items from this period can be found in almost every danish family. In 1957 Bjørn Wiinblad was discovered by Philip Rosenthal, who was looking for new designs for the Rosenthal factory in Germany. He invited Wiinblad to  Germany, which was the beginning of a collaboration that in Wiinblald's own words became "the most important and fortunate in my life”.Since 1952 Bjørn Wiinblad has his own studio Bjørn Wiinblad died in 2006. Reference: “80 year Bjørn Wiinblad, Sophienholm” (Danish language) and “KID – Weilbach, Danish Dictionary of Artists   Place a Bid!