Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Bing & Grøndahl was founded on 15 April 1853 by Grøndahl, who was a figurine maker for the Royal Danish Porcelain Factory, and the Bing brothers, who were art and book dealers. The factory was located on the corner of Vesterbrogade and Rahbek Allé in the Vesterbro area, at that time outside the city of Copenhagen , Denmark.
In recent years, Royal Copenhagen acquired Georg Jensen in 1972, incorporated with Holmegaard Glass Factory in 1985, and finally Bing & Grøndahl in 1987. Royal Copenhagen was a part of a group of Scandinavian companies, Royal Scandinavia, together with Georg Jensen, and was owned by a Danish private equity fund, Axcel.
The first Christmas plate was issued by Bing & Grøndahl in 1895. Harald Bing came up with the idea, hoping to develop a series with Danish scenes. Designed by Frans August Hallin (1865–1947), the first plate is titled Bag den Frosne Rude (Behind the Frosted Pane) with a view of some of Copenhagen's landmark buildings at night as seen through the icy windows of Frederiksberg Palace.
Fanny Susanne Garde (1855–1928) was a Danish porcelain painter who worked for the Bing & Grøndahl porcelain factory from 1886. She began by decorating the company's Heron dinnerware set (Hejrestellet), which proved to be an award-winning success in underglaze painting .
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us; Donate
From 1920 to 1930 Fridtjof Backer-Grøndahl lived in Britain, where he taught at University College London and also concertized, including works by his mother, Grieg, and other Norwegian music in his repertoire, [1] along with those of Beethoven, Chopin, Schumann and Brahms. He wrote some piano pieces and song cycles.
Agathe Backer Grøndahl played a major role in the period often called the golden age of Norwegian music history. She composed in total some 400 pieces spanning seventy opus numbers. She was a prominent character on the Norwegian musical scene and a close friend of Edvard Grieg .
Grøndahl or Gröndahl or Grondahl is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Agathe Backer-Grøndahl (1847–1907), Norwegian pianist and composer; Britta Gröndahl (1914–2002), Swedish writer and anarcho-syndicalist; Cathrine Grøndahl (born 1969), Norwegian poet; Jan Grøndahl (born 1934), Norwegian police chief and civil servant