Wilhelm Kåge
Covered by droit de suite
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a stoneware sculpture of a dragon, Gustavsberg, Sweden 1941.
Glazed with so called carrarra glaze, stamped with maker's mark KÅGE 3. Length 20 cm. A painted donour's mark underneath: G. BYLUND MED TACK FÖR ÅR 1941. VICTOR ODELBERG.
Victor Odelberg (1875-1951) was the son of Wilhelm Odelberg, the then-owner of Gustavsberg. After his father's death in 1924, Victor Odelberg became the managing director, a position he held until Kooperativa förbundet took over the company in 1937.
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Droite de suite (d) on this lot. Left back leg with a broken claw.
Designer
Wilhelm Kåge was a Swedish artist, painter, and ceramicist. Between 1917 and 1949, he worked as artistic director at Gustavsberg porcelain factory.
Kåge studied at Valand konstskola in Gothenburg and later in Copenhagen, where he got to know artist Gösta Adrian-Nilsson (GAN) and became familiar with modern art. He studied graphic art in Munich and began his artistic career by designing posters for theaters and exhibitions. When Gustavsberg needed new products for the home Exhibition at Liljevalch in 1917, Kåge was hired. He developed 30 different tableware, colorful faience, stoneware, and series such as Carrara, Surrea, and Våga. In 1942, Kåge developed Gustavsberg's studio together with designer Stig Lindberg. The studio became an aesthetic laboratory for objets d'art.
At the Stockholm Exhibition in 1930, Kåge presented Gustavsberg's future sales success "Argenta", a series of objet d'art glazed mainly in green but also in red, blue, brown, and celadon green and painted with various silver decorations according to Kåge's sketches.
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