A Private Collection of Danish Porcelain
Focus on Uniques of the Art Nouveau
Jenny Kondrup
Miss Jenny Helene Cathinka Kondrup - born 12.11.1851 in Aalborg, died 31.12.1927 at St. Hans Hospital. Parents were Grocery Christen Andersen Kondrup and Georgine Petrea Thomasen.
Jenny Kondrup was educated as sculptor at the Drawing and Kunstindustrie School for Women and graduated 1883. Her teachers wer Marie Luplau and Emilie Mundt. She finished the Kunstakademie in February 1890 (Viggo Johansen).
She was employed by Royal Copenhagen from October 1885 until November 1890. She was a blue painter and her blue painter number was 42. She soon worked for the "arts" department under Arnold Krog.
Jenny Kondrup generated a series of portrait busts and medallions in the senklassicistiske manner. Her figurative works are genre pieces done with charm and humor. Kondrup had a mental disease and went to St. Hans Hospital from 1893 until her death.
Main information source: Kunstindex Danmark & Weilbachs Kunstnerleksikon
Artist: Jenny Kondrup
Date of Production: November 1887
Unique Number: none
Height: 22,5 cm
Diameter: 18 cm
Motif: Early very japonistic koi vase in blue
and white
Remarks: No golden trim, some glaze defects
KRC1109
Artist: Jenny Kondrup
Date of Production: March 1887
Unique Number: none
Height: 22,5 cm
Diameter: 12 cm
Motif: Vase with arabesque patters and
flowers on light blue ground. Green
leaves.
Remarks: Typical colors in green blue and gold.
Maybe a trial to test other paterns.
KRC0408
Artist: Jenny Kondrup
Date of Production: 1885/86
Unique Number: none
Height: 22,5 cm
Diameter: 12 cm
Motif: Butterfly Vase with leaves, insects and
flowers
Remarks: Typical colors in blue and gold for
this time.
KRC0409
Artist: Jenny Kondrup
Date of Production: June 1890
Unique Number: 2023
Height: 9.5 cm
Diameter: 9.5 cm
Motif: Flower vase with lid and handle
Remarks: Sold to "Gros. C. Möller" for 30 DKK
KRC1110
Artist: Jenny Kondrup
Date of Production: November 1889
Unique Number: none (XI - could have been a small lot)
Height: 4 cm
Length: 25.5 cm
Width: 6.5 cm
Motif: Codfish
Remarks:
KRC0410
Artist: Jenny Kondrup
Date of Production: November 1889
Unique Number: none (N2 - could have been a small lot)
Height: 5 cm
Length: 26.5 cm
Width: 6.5 cm
Motif: Codfish
Remarks:
KRC0411
Artist: Jenny Kondrup
Date of Production: December 1889
Unique Number: none (N1 - could have been a small lot)
Height: 2 cm
Width: 9.5 cm
Depth: 7 cm
Motif: Conger eel (model 462 by Liisberg 1889)
Remarks:
KRC0412