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Thorvald Bindesbøll (21 July 1846 – 27 August 1908) was a Danish National romantic architect, sculptor and ornamental artist. He designed the
Biography
1846 births 1908 deaths Artisans from Copenhagen Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts alumni Danish architects 19th-century Danish ceramists 20th-century Danish ceramists Danish designers Danish sculptors Danish male artists Male sculptors {{Denmark-architect-stub
Thorvald Bindesbøll (21 July 1846 – 27 August 1908) was a Danish National romantic architect, sculptor and ornamental artist. He designed the Dragon Fountain, Copenhagen
The Dragon Fountain is a fountain located in the City Hall Square, Copenhagen, City Hall Square in Copenhagen, Denmark. It was designed by Joakim Skovgaard in collaboration with Thorvald Bindesbøll and features a bull in combat with a dragon.
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(''Dragespringvandet'') and is perhaps best known as the creator of the Carlsberg Carlsberg may refer to:
Places
* Carlsberg (district), a district in Copenhagen, Denmark
** Carlsberg station, its train station
* Carlsberg, Germany, a municipality in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
* Carlsberg Fjord, Greenland Other uses
* Carlsbe ...
beer label, which has remained unchanged since it was introduced.
Biography
Bindesbøll was born in Copenhagen, Denmark. Born into an artistic family; he was the son of architect Michael Gottlieb Bindesbøll (1800–1856) and wife Andrea Frederikke Andersen (1819-1899). His sisterJohanne Bindesbøll
Karen Johanne Bindesbøll (1851–1934) was a Danish textile artist who specialized in embroidery. Together with Kristiane Konstantin-Hansen, from 1873 she ran a retail business in Copenhagen, selling embroidered goods and training young women t ...
was a successful textile artist.
He attended the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and left as an architect in 1876.
Marginalized as an architect, Bindesbøll turned increasingly towards the art of craftsmanship.
As early as 1880, he came into the field of pottery encouraged by the friend and architect Andreas Clemmensen
Andreas Clemmensen (7 August 1852 – 5 December 1928) was a Danish architect and royal building inspector.
Early life and education
Clemmensen was born on 7 August 1852 in Leck, Duchy of Schleswig, the son of Carl Frederik Clemmensen and Charlot ...
.
He began producing ceramics at Frauens Levarefabrik.
He worked at Johan Wallmann in Utterslev 1883–90, between 1890 and 1891, he worked with faience at Kähler in Næstved and at G. Eifrig in Valby 1891–1904. By 1904 he was working with Danish gold and silversmith Holger Kyster (1872–1944). Throughout the years Bindesbøll had an intimate collaboration with August Jerndorff and Joakim Skovgaard. He received international notice at the Paris Exposition Universelle (1900)
The Exposition Universelle of 1900, better known in English as the 1900 Paris Exposition, was a world's fair held in Paris, France, from 14 April to 12 November 1900, to celebrate the achievements of the past century and to accelerate developmen ...
where he won the gold medal for his décor of the Danish exhibition.
With A. Michelsen, he designed a number of cutlery piece. Bindesboll had a preference to decorate the entirety of the handle of his pieces in broad scrolling floral patterns, or heavy geometric patterns.
Bindesbøll died at Frederiksberg and was buried at Frederiksberg Ældre Kirkegård. See also
* List of Danish architects * Thorvald Bindesbøll MedalReferences
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Biography
1846 births 1908 deaths Artisans from Copenhagen Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts alumni Danish architects 19th-century Danish ceramists 20th-century Danish ceramists Danish designers Danish sculptors Danish male artists Male sculptors {{Denmark-architect-stub