A Private Collection of Danish Porcelain
Focus on Uniques of the Art Nouveau
Fanny Garde
Fanny Susanne Garde was born *20.2.1855 in Nørre Løgum, died 29.04.1928 in Copenhagen.
Her parents were vicar Peter Christian Garde (1816-94) and Augusta Charlotte Margrethe Lawaetz (1826-1906).
She worked and lived togehter with Effie Hegermann and shared also the same unique numbering system with her.
Fanny Garde was a Sønderjysk pastor's daughter and sister of the later mechanical engineer Georg Garde, came to Copenhagen in 1876 to become a student at the Art School for Women. It was established the year before by the Danish Women's Society with Charlotte Klein as leader. From 1877-84 Fanny Garde was pupil and drawing teacher at the school where she met the somewhat younger Effie Hegermann-Lindencrone in 1880. She developed a very close working relationship, later also common housing with her. Together they made several more trips, including Italy, France, England and Germany. In 1885 they worked together at Copenhagnes Lervarefabrik for G. Eifrig in Valby.
From 1886 the two women became permanent employees at the Bing & Grondahl Porcelain Factory, where they shared a studio. It was Pietro Krohn, the artistic director of B&G and their former teacher at the Art School for Women, who hired them to perform decoration work to Heron service. The service, which was the factory's first campaign in underglaze painting, was exhibited at the Nordic Industry, Agriculture and Art Exhibition in Copenhagen. 1888, at the world exhibitions in Paris in 1889 and 1900 and was a great success. Their first work served as a basis for the subsequent large underglaze department that was the flagship of the factory with the blue colored decoration glossy transparent glaze. Furthermore, they were some of the first female artists who worked as a decorative painter, and even provided draft models. Fanny Garde worked especially with underglaze painting, later also with the crackle porcelain. She was one of the plant's most active artists, technically secure and with a distinct sense of the material. She created also a series of works of pierced porcelain with stylized Danish floral, eg Vase with Christmas Roses, 1897 and Vase with Blackberries before 1907. In addition, she carried out extensive work in the factory and generated the Seagull service, designed in the 1890s, it most famous and still produced. The naturalistic decoration, with the white bird flying on a blue sky, may have Japanese models, while the service base raw pieces were generated by 1880 by August Hallin with it´s typical fish scales.
Fanny Garde was active throughout life and kept an ardent interest and enthusiasm for art, she also managed to convey to younger colleagues. Her work is represented in several museums in Denmark and abroad. Over the years, she participated in several exhibitions, including Dänische Ausstellung in Berlin 1910-11, Women Artists retrospective exhibition in 1920 and the World Exhibition in Paris in 1925, she got the gold medal.
Main information source: Kunstindex Danmark & Weilbachs Kunstnerleksikon and Erik Lassen: En københavnsk porcelænsfabriks historie
Artist: Fanny Garde
Date of Production: 1898-1899
Unique Number: 505
Height: 41 cm
Diameter: 24 cm
Motif: Lilies at lake
Remarks: uneven surface, burning defects.
Depicted on page 199 of "The Artist"
Volume XXVI, 1899
KRC0049
Artist: Fanny Garde
Date of Production: 1909
Unique Number: 1241
Height: 29 cm
Diameter: 20 cm
Motif: Lidded blossom urn
Remarks: Carved, pierced with insert
KRC0036
Artist: Fanny Garde
Date of Production: 1917
Unique Number: 1559
Height: 20.5 cm
Diameter: 9.5 cm
Motif: Bell Flower Vase
Remarks: In relief, pierced
KRC0037
Artist: Fanny Garde
Date of Production: 1909
Unique Number: 1249
Height: 24.5 cm
Diameter: 12 cm
Motif: Flower Vase
Remarks: In relief, pierced, with inset to Keep
water. Was drilled and used as
vase lamp
KRC0038
Artist: Fanny Garde
Date of Production: 1922
Unique Number: 1695
Height: 29 cm
Diameter: 16.5 cm
Motif: Lidded art nouveau vase
Remarks: Carved, pierced with earthenware
brown glaze
KRC0039
Artist: Fanny Garde
Date of Production: 1899 - 1902
Unique Number: 710
Height: 36 cm
Diameter: 17 cm
Motif: Lent Lily Vase with plastic blossoms
Remarks: In relief
KRC0040
Artist: Fanny Garde
Date of Production: 1912
Unique Number: 1363
Height: 38 cm
Diameter: 22 cm
Motif: Blossom Vase on earthenware ground
Remarks: In relief
KRC0041
Artist: Fanny Garde
Date of Production: 1925
Unique Number: 1778
Height: 34 cm
Diameter: 15 cm
Motif: Blossom Vase style
Remarks: In relief
KRC0042
Artist: Fanny Garde
Date of Production: 1895 - 1898
Unique Number: 359 (?)
Height: 16 cm
Diameter: 17 cm
Motif: Fruit (apricot)? Vase
Remarks:
KRC0043
Artist: Fanny Garde
Date of Production: 1923
Unique Number: 1732
Height: 17 cm
Diameter: 12,5 cm
Motif: Maple Vase
Remarks: In relief. Vase is shown on page 221 of
"Bing&Gröndahl Figurines" by Caroline
and Nick Pope, Schiffer Books 2002
KRC0044
Artist: Fanny Garde
Date of Production: 1911
Unique Number: 1318
Height: 8.5 cm
Width: 8 cm
Depth: 4 cm
Motif: Fruit
Remarks:
KRC0045
Artist: Fanny Garde
Date of Production: 1909
Unique Number: 1268
Height: 8.5 cm
Width: 8 cm
Depth: 4 cm
Motif: Flowers
Remarks:
KRC0046
Artist: Fanny Garde
Date of Production: 1902-1904
Unique Number: 829
Height: 22 cm
Diameter: 16 cm
Motif: Daffodil Style Vase
Remarks: In relief, top shaved off
KRC0047
Artist: Fanny Garde
Date of Production: 1906
Unique Number: 1104
Height: 43 cm
Diameter: 18 cm
Motif: Passion Flower Vase
Remarks: repaired. Fanny needed 51 hous to
complete this vase, shape 151
KRC0048
Artist: Fanny Garde
Date of Production: 1906
Unique Number: 1090
Height: 17 cm
Diameter: 12 cm
Motif: Floral vase
Remarks: Pierced with silver mount
KRC0050
Artist: Fanny Garde
Date of Production: 1915 - 1928
Unique Number: none
Height: 18.5 cm
Diameter: 12.5 cm
Motif: Lampshade with flying geese
Remarks:
KRC0051
Artist: Fanny Garde
Date of Production: 1928
Unique Number: 1976
Height: 25 cm
Diameter: 20 cm
Motif: Crackle glaze urn
Remarks: Must have been one of Fanny´s last
works
KRC1102
Artist: Fanny Garde
Date of Production: 1907
Unique Number: 1171
Height: 21 cm
Diameter: 9 cm
Motif: Flowers with blossoms in relief and
pierced
Remarks: Glaze cracks filled with dust
KRC1103
Artist: Fanny Garde
Date of Production: 1908
Unique Number: 1214
Height: 41 cm
Diameter: 25 cm
Motif: Vase with Chestnuts
Remarks:
KRC1226
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