GEORG JENSEN SILVER: Background

Georg Jensen is the name of a famous Danish silversmith; of a world reknown group of artists and craftsmen who created silverworks…

Often, Georg Jensen is associated with the Georg Jensen Silversmithy which he had founded and which bears his name. Very few people know the story of the “unknown” side to Georg Jensen, the sculptor, the silversmith and the craftsman…

MOGENS BALLIN

Mogens Ballin was born in 1871 in Copenhagen as the only child to a pair of well off parents whom fostered his early attraction to the arts, and trained as a painter. He was particularly attracted to the French styles of his time and his French studies with Gauguin’s wife..

GEORG JENSEN: THE DANISH SILVERSMITH

Georg Jensen was born on August 31st, 1866 in the small town of Radvad, a tiny rural factory town north of Copenhagen surrounded with the beauties of nature. A small nearby marsh was filled with blue clay, to which a child Georg Jensen began to play and experiment with turning his visions of nature into the small figures he enjoyed. The local bricklayers would encourage the young sculptor and praise his works, and his father, Jorgen Jensen, cultivated his instincts to understand nature for it beauty.