Jens Quistgaard
1919 - 2008, 丹麦
Jens Quistgaard 是丹麦知名设计师，他在美国被人所熟识，曾一度是“丹麦现代设计”的代表。Quistgaard 出生于哥本哈根的一个艺术世家，从小就展现出了惊人的艺术天赋，年轻时常常在附近的铁匠、木匠那里打工学习，逐渐掌握了一些手工技艺。他在父亲 Harald Quistgaard 的指导下学习雕塑，之后又在哥本哈根的一所技术院校中接受了绘画和银匠的培训，师从著名银匠大师 Georg Jensen 和 Just Anderson。
从1940年代开始，Quistgaard 开始设计餐具和厨房用具。1953年，他最成功的设计之一—— Fjord 系列诞生，这是第一款将不锈钢与柚木结合在一起的餐具，这个系列也让美国商人 Ted Nierenberg 注意到了 Quistgaard，并邀请他一同在美国创立了公司 Dansk Design。从50年代中期到80年代，担任首席设计师的 Quistgaard 十分高产，任职期间一共设计了4000多款产品，包括餐具、厨具、家居用品等，在美国大获成功，掀起了丹麦现代设计的风潮。
除了为 Dansk Design 设计小件物品，Quistgaard 还有少量家具设计，不变的是，他总是以雕塑家的角度来设计作品，并坚持着对手工艺传统的喜爱与尊重，由此创造了诸多兼具美感和卓越工艺的经典产品。
Quistgaard 的职业生涯中荣获了许多奖项，包括 Lunning 奖（1954年），米兰三年展金奖（1954年）等，他的作品也被纽约大都会艺术博物馆、纽约现代艺术博物馆、伦敦维多利亚和阿尔伯特博物馆等知名展馆收藏。
Jens Harald Quistgaard was a Danish sculptor and designer, known principally for his work for the American company Dansk Designs, where he was chief designer from 1954 and for the following three decades.
Though a sculptor and grounded in traditional handicrafts, he quickly established a career as an industrial designer. From the mid-1950s his tableware and kitchenware designs became synonymous with Danish modern and found their way into millions of homes in the US, Europe and Japan. With his international orientation and success he was groundbreaking, and he had great significance for the place which Danish design acquired in the minds of many Americans.
Awards and distinctions
Lunning Prize 1954
Gold and silver medals at Milan Triennial 1954
The Neiman Marcus Award for Distinguished Service in the Field of Fashion 1958
Der goldene Löffel, Munich 1962
Honorary grant from the Danish Central Bank's Anniversary Foundation 2006
Museums
Designmuseum Danmark, Copenhagen
The British Museum, London
Museet på Koldinghus, Kolding, Denmark
Industrimuseet Frederiks Værk, Frederiksværk, Denmark
The Victoria and Albert Museum, London
National Museum, Stockholm;
MoMA, The Museum of Modern Art, New York City
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
The Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, New York City
The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York
The Philadelphia Museum of Art
Indianapolis Museum of Art
The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Denver Art Museum, Colorado
Das Kunstgewerbemuseum, Berlin
GRASSI Museum of Applied Arts, Leipzig
Städtisches Museum, Braunschweig
Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Oldenburg
The Louvre, Paris
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Kirkland Mueum of Fine & Decorative Art, Denver, Colorado
Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois
The RISD Museum, Providence, Rhode Island
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Exhibitions
Charlottenborg spring 1947, 1951–52, 1956
Milan Triennial 1954
Habitations nouvelles, Paris 1955
Annual exhibitions of Danish Arts and Crafts Association, 1940s-60s
The Lunning Prize Designers' Exhibition, New York 1957
DH '58: Design for the Home, Brooklyn Museum, March 05 - April 27, 1958
Danish Arts and Crafts, Stockholm 1959
The Arts of Denmark, USA 1960-61
Formes danoises: L'art de l'intérieur au Danemark, Exposition itinérante, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon/Palais de la Bourse, Marseille/Musèe Maison de la Culture, Le Havre/Palais des Beaux-Arts. Lille/Galerie Municipale des Beaux-Arts, Bordeaux, 1964-1965
Two Centuries of Danish Design, Victoria & Albert Museum, London 1968
Lerchenborg, separate exhibition 1969
Masterworks – 100 years of Danish furniture-making, Kronborg 2000
A Century of Design, Part III, 1950-1975 Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2001
Danish National Museum, Copenhagen, Images of Denmark, 2002
Danish Museum of Art and Design, Copenhagen, 2004
Danmarks Nationalbank, Retrospective exhibition, 2006
What Was Good Design, MoMA's Message 1944-56, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, May 6, 2009- Jan 10, 2011
Danish Design - I Like It, Designmuseum Denmark, Copenhagen 2011
Danish Modern: Design for Living, Goldstein Museum of Design, Minnesota 2014 and Figge Art Museum, Iova 2015
DANSK - Design by Jens Quistgaard, Retrospective exhibition, HEART Herning Museum of Contemporary Art, 2015-16
Much More Than One Good Chair, Design & Gesellschaft in Dänemark, Nordische Botschaften, Berlin 2017
einfach gut. Design aus Dänemark, Wilhelm Wagenfeld Haus, Berlin 2018-19
The Value of Good Design, MoMA, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Feb.10-Jun.15, 2019
Scandinavian Design and the United States, 1890-1980, Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin, 2020
Literature
Bagner, Alex: Hide and teak, i: Wallpaper*, October 2008, s. 128-134
Eidelberg, Martin (Ed.): Design 1935-1965. What Modern Was, New York: Harry N Abrams 1991. ISBN 0-8109-2480-3
Byars, Mel: The Design Encyclopedia, New York: The Museum of Modern Art 2004. | ISBN 0-87070-012-X
Fiell, Charlotte and Peter: Scandinavian Design, Köln: Taschen 2002. ISBN 3-8228-2178-0
Fiell, Charlotte and Peter (Eds): 60s Decorative Art, Köln: Taschen 2000. ISBN 3-8228-6405-6
FORM - fra tønder til trend, Kulturhistorisk Museum Randers, u.å.
Fox, Margalit ("Jens Quistgaard, 88, a Designer of Popular Tableware, Is Dead". New York Times (2008-02-02).
Guldberg, Stig: Jens Quistgaard - The Man Who Put Danish Modern on America's Tables, i: Modernism Magazine, Spring 2011
Guldberg, Stig: The Sculptor Who Put Danish Modern on the Map, i: DANSK - Design by Jens Quistgaard, HEART - Herning Museum of Contemporary Art, 2015
Koelln, Georgann. "Prolific Tableware Designer Has Introduced 2,000 Styles", The Blade (newspaper), October 17, 1982.
New Technologies. Phaidon Design Classics, Volume Three, Phaidon 2006.
Perlson, Mark: Danish Pepper. Jens Quistgaard's Teak Pepper Mills, 2008. ISBN 978-1438214740
Reif, Rita. "Accessories Designed by Dane Proving Popular in U.S. Homes; Jens Quistgaard, Son of Noted Sculptor, a Born Craftsman", The New York Times, October 10, 1958.
The New York Times, September 22, 1961