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Syberg Keramik was a Danish ceramics manufacturer based in the Valby district of
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Syberg Keramik was a Danish ceramics manufacturer based in the Valby district of Copenhagen
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. It was created by Hans Syberg and later taken over by his brother Lars Syberg,. It existed from 1928 until the 1980s and was based in Valby
History
Hans Syberg was a son of the artists Fritz andAnna Syberg
Anna Louise Birgitte Syberg (7 January 1870 – 4 July 1914) was a Danish painter. Together with her husband Fritz Syberg, she was one of the Funen Painters (''Fynboerne'') who lived and worked on the island of Funen. She is remembered for he ...
. Together with his cousin Grete Jensen, a daughter of the painter Peter Hansen, he established a ceramics workshop in Valby in 1928. They specialized in faience
Faience or faïence (; ) is the general English language term for fine tin-glazed pottery. The invention of a white pottery glaze suitable for painted decoration, by the addition of an oxide of tin to the slip of a lead glaze, was a major ad ...
with flower decorations inspired by Anna Syberg
Anna Louise Birgitte Syberg (7 January 1870 – 4 July 1914) was a Danish painter. Together with her husband Fritz Syberg, she was one of the Funen Painters (''Fynboerne'') who lived and worked on the island of Funen. She is remembered for he ...
's watercolours.
Lars Syberg joined the company in 1931 and gradually took it over. The production peaked during the 1940s and early 1950s. The company remained in operation until the 1980s.
Exhibitions and books
Faaborg Museum in Faaborg andSophienholm
Sophienholm is a former manor house and exhibition venue located north on the shore of Lake Bagsværd in Lyngby-Taarbæk Municipality in the northern outskirts of Copenhagen, Denmark.
The main building was originally a country home built in 1769 b ...
in Kongens Lyngby
Kongens Lyngby (, Danish for "the King's Heather Town"; short form Lyngby) is the seat and commercial centre of Lyngby-Taarbæk Municipality in the northern suburbs of Copenhagen, Denmark. Lyngby Hovedgade is a busy shopping street and the site of ...
north of Copenhagen hosted the exhibition Syberg - fra akvarel til keramik ("Syberg - from Watercolour to Ceramics") in 2003-04. Jens Blædel published a book by the same name in connection with the exhibition. Ceramics from Syberg Keramik was also featured at the exhibition Kunstnerdynastiet Syberg at the Johannes Larsen Museum in Kerteminde.
See also
*Porcelænsfabrikken Danmark Porcelænsfabrikken Danmark, now also known as Lyngby Porcelæn, was a Danish porcelain manufacturer in Kongens Lyngby, Greater Copenhagen, Denmark. The factory was founded in 1936 and closed in 1969 but was relaunched as a brand in 2012. The reviv ...
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Further reading
* Jensen, Birgit Bjerre: ''Hans Syberg..External links
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