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The Danish silver company Georg Jensen was founded in 1904 and by the 1920s it had shops all over the world.
Georg Jensen used these hallmarks:

designer's marks sometimes joined to Jensen maker's mark

Johan Rohde (1856-1935)	Gundolph Albertus (1887-1970)	Harald Nielsen (1892-1977)	Arno Malinowski (1899-1976)

Sigvard Bernadotte(1907-2002)	Henning Koppel (1918-1981)	Bent Gabrielsen (1918-)	Nanna Ditzel (1923-2005)	Vivianna Torun Bulow-Hube (1927-2004)

GEORG JENSEN HISTORY
The Danish silver company Georg Jensen was founded in 1904 and by the 1920s it had shops all over the world. The son of a blacksmith and born in 1866, Georg Jensen grew up in a poor family in the little industrial town of Raavad north of Copenhagen. When he was 14, his family moved to Copenhagen where he apprenticed with a goldsmith. In his spare time, he took drawing, geometry, engraving, and modeling courses during which time he decided to become a sculptor. After graduating in 1892, he first made art pottery than he decided he would return to his old craft of metalsmithing to support his family making silver jewelry to his own designs. Finally, in 1904, he opened his own shop in Copenhagen and soon had 60 people working for him. His designs were a success, but his business acumen was not as he constantly needed to rely on new investors. In 1925, he left the company and moved to Paris to start a new workshop, but this venture was unsuccessful and he returned to Copenhagen. There, he rejoined the company as the artistic director where he continued to design for the company bearing his name until his death.
The Georg Jensen name has always carried the mantle of the highest quality silver, made using the most expensive techniques of production. At one time, Jensen made 33 flatware patterns, 23 of which are no longer produced, and about 1200 holloware items such as bowls, candelabra, pitchers, tea sets, trays, vases, wine coolers, and covered fish platters. Like Georg Jensen jewelry, many holloware pieces were embellished with semiprecious stones like amber, amethyst, garnet, lapis lazuli, malachite, opal, and quartz. Over the years before his death in 1935, Jensen hired a series of talented designers who were allowed to go their own ways.
Some of the firm's more notable designers include: Johan Rohde (1856-1935) Just Andersen (1884-1943) Gundolph Albertus (1887-1970) Harald Nielsen (1892-1977) Arno Malinowski (1899-1976) Count Sigvard Bernadotte (1907-2002) Henning Koppel (1918-1981) Bent Gabrielsen (1918-) Nanna Ditzel (1923-2005) Vivianna Torun Bulow-Hube (1927-2004).
As such, Jensen's greatest talent may have been his ability to find and nurture other talents. One of the most talented, original, and influential silversmiths of the 20th century, Georg Jensen silver designs live on today as one of the most highly sought examples of the art of fine silver.

JENSEN photo gallery Coffee set designer Johan Rhode c. 1920 Three piece coffee set designer Sigvard Bernadotte c.1930 Three piece coffee set c.1940 Three piece tea set designer Georg Jensen c. 1920   compote designer Alphonse LaPaglia Candy compote 1933/1944 compote with swirling stem and grapes after 1945 Soup tureen c. 1940-1950   Acorn cruet set designer Johan Rhode Teapot Teapot with fluted ivory handle c. 1930 Open salt 1915/1930   Hot water kettle designer Johan Rhode c. 1918 Two light candelabra Pomegranade pattern c.1918 Covered jug pattern Cosmos designer Johan Rhode c.1930   spoon and fork Cactus pattern Demitasse spoon Acanthus pattern c. 1917 Spoon and fork pattern '83'   Flatware set Acorn pattern Flatware set Bernadotte pattern www.silvercollection.it This is a page of 'The What is? Silver Dictionary' of A Small Collection of Antique Silver and Objects of vertu, a 1500 pages richly illustrated website offering all you need to know about antique silver, sterling silver, silverplate, Sheffield plate, electroplate silver, silverware, flatware, tea services and tea complements, marks and hallmarks, articles, books, auction catalogs, famous silversmiths (Tiffany, Gorham, Jensen, Elkington), history, oddities ... HOME - SITE MAP - SILVER DICTIONARY - COOKIES CONSENT AND PRIVACY HOME - SILVER DICTIONARY - HALLMARKS (STERLING) - MARKS (SILVERPLATE) - SILVERSMITHS - ARTICLES - MY COLLECTION - SITE MAP This page was useful? leave your LIKE on facebook - work in progress on this page - your help, corrections and suggestions will be greatly appreciated -