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Gösta Eugén Almgren

(Sweden, 1888-1954)
Estimate
10 000 - 15 000 SEK
883 - 1 330 EUR
911 - 1 370 USD
Hammer price
9 000 SEK
Purchasing info
For condition report contact specialist
Camilla Behrer
Stockholm
Camilla Behrer
Head of Design/ Specialist Modern & Contemporary Decorative Art & Design
+46 (0)708 92 19 77
Gösta Eugén Almgren
(Sweden, 1888-1954)

GÖSTA ALMGREN, an Art Nouveau patinated bronze table lamp, Otto Meyer, Stockholm 1918.

Signed G E A 1918, OTTO MEYER. Later green glass shade.

Provenance

The Collection of Hjalmar Olson (1902-1990), Gustavsberg.
Hjalmar Olson was president of Gustavsberg Porcelain Factory 1937-1968, and a Vice Chairman of LKAB 1962-1973. He was elected in 1942 as a member of the Academy of Engineering Sciences, where he was 2nd Vice Chairman from 1954 to 1956, and was appointed as the first honorary member in 1963. He received his degree in 1962 honorary doctor of technology at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm.
As an engineer he studied modern porcelain industry in Germany. This took him to Gustavsberg porcelain factory already in 1929.
With his great interest in art and craft, he built up a private collection where quality was always of utmost importance. With help from close friends like Estrid Ericson, owner of Svenskt Tenn, he created his collection during the middle of the 1900's.