August Frederik Hollming (in Russian 'Golming'; 3 December 1854 – 1913) was a Finnish silver- and goldsmith, and a

Fabergé workmaster A Fabergé workmaster was a skilled craftsman who owned his own workshop and produced jewelry, silver or objets d'art for the House of Fabergé. When Carl Fabergé took over the running of the business in 1882, its output increased so rapidly t ...

Life

Hollming was born in

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, the son of a bookkeeper, Anders Gustaf Hollming of Lovisa, and of Katarina Petterson of Nykarleby. Hollming was apprenticed to the goldsmith Carl Friedrich Ekholm in

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at the beginning of the 1870s. In 1876, he settled in St.Petersburg and registered as a goldworker. In 1880, he qualified as a master and opened his workshop at 35 Kazanskaya Street; he was soon thereafter hired by Fabergé. He had three sons with Erika Gustava Abrahamsson (1856—1909). In 1900, the Hollming workshop moved to 24 Bolshaya Morskaya, under the same roof as Fabergé. He mainly produced cigarette cases in silver, gold, and enamel; miniature Easter Egg; and small gem-set, enameled jewels such as cuff-links, brooches, and pins. Many times he produced these objects for the

House of Fabergé The House of Fabergé (; ) was a jewellery firm founded in 1842 in Saint Petersburg, Russia, by Gustav Fabergé, using the accented name ''Fabergé''. Gustav's sons Peter Carl and Agathonand grandsons followed him in running the business until ...

. The design of the jewelry was surprisingly modern and ahead of its time. The eldest son August Väinö Hollming (1885—1934) inherited the workshop after his father's death in 1913. He ran the workshop with Otto Hanhinen, his father's assistant until 1915.

In popular culture

In 2016 his work figured prominently on the British TV series, ''

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'', when four buttons he made, that were at the bottom of a box someone bought for £2.26, were valued at £1,000 to £1,500.BBC One - Antiques Roadshow, Series 39, Hanbury Hall 2
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Hollming, August Frederik 1854 births 1915 deaths People from Loppi Finnish goldsmiths Finnish silversmiths Fabergé workmasters Artists from the Grand Duchy of Finland Finnish people from the Russian Empire

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