Carl Harry Stålhane Ceramic Bowl for Rörstrand

About the Item

Beautiful ceramic bowl by Swedish artist Carl Harry Stålhane made at Rörstrand atelje in the 1950’s. The bowl has a beautiful glaze which gives a beautiful structure to the bowl. The glaze is a mixture of dark gray, brown and black which is a perfect detail to the bowl. The bowl is in good condition with no chips or cracks. The bowl is the perfect detail for any style of interior from a traditional Scandinavian style of interior to a more modern style of interior. Carl-Harry Ingemar Stålhane, born 15 December 1920 in Mariestad, died 11 April 1990 in Lidköping, was a Swedish ceramist, designer, sculptor and painter. Carl-Harry Stålhane was the son of the merchant Carl Vilhelm Hilarius Stålhane and Agnes Elisabeth Lundgren and from 1948 married to Birgit Ingegerd Dahlin. Stålhane studied faience painting at Rörstrand's Porslinsfabrik and, after passing tests, was employed as a faience painter at the factory in 1939, but in the mid-1940s he was given the opportunity to try working with the rotary disc, which resulted in his further training at Grünewald's painting school 1944–1946 and for the sculptor Ossip Zadkine at the Académie Colarossi in Paris 1947–1948. After the Paris period, he got to work with design and he first created stoneware in a Chinese classical style with a certain connection to Gunnar Nylund's objects. Through stages of faience painting and ornate glaze decoration, in the 1950s he reached a compact and closed form of chamotte stoneware, including vases and abstract sculptures with eruptively mottled earthen glazes. At the age of 30, he became something of a master of stoneware and took over as leading artist from Gunnar Nylund. In the early 1960s he worked with heavier objects that were often modeled rather than turned, and his square forms become more common. He also designed consumables for serial production, among other things he designed the series Victoria which was shown in London in 1959 and together with Aune Laukanen who was responsible for the decor, he created the Spanish-inspired series Torro. He also designed a stoneware set exclusively for the Opera Källaren in Stockholm. The last two years he was also design manager at Upsala Ekeby. At the same time as he was active at Rörstrand, he was appointed head teacher in ceramics and glass at the Konstindustriskolan in Gothenburg, a position he held part-time from 1963 until 1971. Stållhane moved to his own business in Designhuset in Lidköping in 1973 and there he resumed his experiments with local clays and minerals. Here he collaborated with other designers and turners, and did interesting glaze experiments himself. From this time he also had commissions for Bing & Grøndahl for whom he made both decorations and a large series of table lamps. Separately, he exhibited at Ostermans in Stockholm in 1948, Röhsska konstslöjdmuseet in 1948, Malmö museum in 1949, Gummesons art gallery in 1952, Bonniers in New York in 1960 and Tokyo in 1966. Since the end of the 1940s he was represented at Rörstrand's exhibitions in Stockholm, Copenhagen, London and Uppsala. He participated several times on his own in the Milan Triennale, which resulted in a gold medal in 1948 and an honorary diploma in 1951. Carl-Harry Stålhane is buried at the Northern Cemetery in Lidköping.

Creator:

Carl-Harry Stålhane (Artist),Rörstrand (Workshop/Studio)

Dimensions:

Height: 2.76 in (7 cm)Diameter: 7.49 in (19 cm)

Style:

Scandinavian Modern (Of the Period)

Materials and Techniques:

Ceramic,Glazed

Place of Origin:

Denmark

Period:

1950-1959