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    Ahola, Hilkka-Liisa

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    Hilkka-Liisa Ahola is born in Helsinki on November 9, 1920. After her studies at the secondary school, she joins the Art Technical Institute and came to Arabia in 1947. Exhibitions with her ...

    Beek, Bas van

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    Bas van Beek is born in the Netherlands in 1974. Van Beek started studying interior-architecture in 1993, studied interior design in 1997, but never finished these studies. Simultaneously he studied interior architecture ...

    Bryk, Rut

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    Rut Bryk is born in Stockholm (Sweden) on October 18, 1916. Her education: baccalaureate, School of Fine Arts. She came to Arabia in 1942. Her designs were shown in domestic exhibitions and ...

    Escher, Maurits

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    Maurits Escher is born at Grote Kerkstraat 11 in Leeuwarden (now part of the Keramiekmuseum het Princessehof) on June, 17 1898. Father George Arnold Escher is chief engineer at Rijkswaterstaat. Maurits is ...

    Hovisaari, Helmi Annikki

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    Helmi Annikki (Annikki) Hovisaari is born in Tampere Finland on July 15, 1918. Her first training after the secondary school was at the Artistic Institute. She came to work for Arabia in ...

    Kaipiainen, Birger Johannes

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    Birger Johannes Kaipiainen is born in Porissa-Finland on July 1, 1915. Education after the secondary school is at the  School of Art. His working period in Arabia is from 1937 till 1954 and re-entered in ...

    Kyhn, Knud

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    Knud Kyhn is born in Frederiksberg on March 17, 1880.  Knud Khyn was a an accomplished Danish painter, draughtsman and ceramic sculptor. The interest in his work lies in his evocative, superbly modelled ...

    Larson, Lisa

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    Lisa Larson is born in the south of Sweden on September 9, 1931. She is taught at the College of Crafts and Design in Gothenburg between 1949 and 1954. She is then employed at Gustavsberg porcelain factory ...

    Lindberg, Stig

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    Stig Lindberg is born in Umeå, Sweden on August 17, 1916. Lindberg is a Swedish ceramic designer, glass designer, textile designer, industrial designer, painter and illustrator. As one of Sweden’s most important ...

    Nyland, Gunnar

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    Gunnar Nylund is born in 1904. From a very young age, he was raised in an artistic setting, by his Danish mother who was a ceramist and his Finnish father, a painter ...

    Salmenhaara, Kerttu Kyllikki

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    Kerttu Kyllikki Salmenhaara is born in Tyrnävi – Finland on July 14, 1915. Her training after her matriculation examination is at the Art Institute. She came to Arabia in 1947. Her designs were shown ...

    Stålhane, Carl-Harry

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    Carl-Harry Stålhane (1920-1990) is one of the most renowned representatives of the illustrious Swedish ceramic design of the 20th century. He is well-known as the artistic leader for Rörstrand in the 1960s. ...

    Thorsson, Nils

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    Nils Johan Thorvald (Nils) Thorsson is born in Eslöv, Sweden in 1898. At the age of thirteen he apprenticed at the Alumina Factory in Copenhagen, before studying at and graduating from the Royal Danish ...

    Wiinblad, Bjørn

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    Bjørn Wiinblad (20 September 1918 – 8 June 2006), is a Danish painter, designer and artist in ceramics, silver, bronze, textiles, and graphics. His work has been shown widely in Europe, in ...

    Zeisel, Eva

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    Eva Striker Zeisel (born Éva Amália Striker) is born in Budapest on November 13, 1906. She is the daughter of Laura Polanyi Striker and Alexander Striker. Her father owned a textile factory. ...