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Wilhelm Kåge

(Sweden, 1889-1960)
Wilhelm Kåge
(Sweden, 1889-1960)

Wilhelm Kåge, two faience table lamp bases, Gustavsberg, 1918

Painted decoration each in a different kind of blue hue, signed KÅGE/ 18 (1918) factory mark 12 respectively 10. Height 24 cm.
Enclosed is a book:
Nils Palmgren, Wilhelm Kåge Konstnär och Hantverkare, Nordisk Rotogravyr, 1953.

Crazings. The book ( not examined) with a damaged back,

Provenance

Acquired at a sellout from the Porcelain museum in Gustavsberg in the 1990's.

Literature

Nils Palmgren, Wilhelm Kåge Konstnär och Hantverkare, Nordisk Rotogravyr, Stockholm 1953. Compare the same model exhibited in 1917, p 78.

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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