Georg Jensen

Georg Jensen (1866-1935) was born in the town of Raadvad, near Copenhagen. First apprenticed to the silversmith A.R. Andersen at the age of 18, he developed an interest in sculpture, and was accepted into the Royal Danish Academy of Art in 1887 on the strength of a plaster bust he had sculpted in the likeness of his father. While his sculptures were well-received by critics and internationally exhibited, Jensen recognised that more commercial opportunities were available to him in the field of applied arts and established his own workshop in 1904.

After Jensen’s and Pederson’s deaths in 1935 and 1937, the firm was able to remain at the forefront of Scandinavian design thanks to designers such as Henning Koppel, Vivianna Torun Bülow-Hübe, Nanna Ditzel, Astrid Fog, Bent Gabrielsen, and Arno Malinowski.