Axel Salto (1889 - 1961) - photo 1

Axel Salto

Axel Johannes Salto was an internationally renowned Danish ceramic artist. He studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts from 1909 to 1914.

Axel Salto visited Paris in 1916, where he met Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse. This meeting was a landmark for Salto's creative ambitions and his influence on the innovative ideas of the time.

Throughout the 1920s his artistic focus shifted from painting to ceramics, and between 1923 and 1950 he created around 3,000 different ceramic pieces.

From the mid-1930s he worked mainly at the Royal Porcelain Factory in Copenhagen. Here Salto developed his ceramics, experimenting with unusually rich glazes and organic shapes.

Date and place of birt:17 november 1889, Copenhagen, Denmark
Date and place of death:21 march 1961, Frederiksberg, Denmark
Nationality:Denmark
Period of activity: XX century
Specialization:Artist, Ceramist, Porcelain modeler
Art style:Art Nouveau, Modern art, Post War Art
Medium:Ceramic

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Sohan Qadri (1932 - 2011)
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Johannes Wiedewelt (1731 - 1802)
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Christian Albrecht Jensen (1792 - 1870)
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Christen Schiellerup Købke (1810 - 1848)
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Harald Giersing (1881 - 1927)
Harald Giersing
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Henry Heerup (1907 - 1993)
Henry Heerup
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Peter Vilhelm Kyhn (1819 - 1903)
Peter Vilhelm Kyhn
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Hans Nikolaj Hansen (1853 - 1923)
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Arent Nicolai Dragsted (1821 - 1898)
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1821 - 1898
Christian August Lorenzen (1749 - 1828)
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Frants Peter Didrik Henningsen (1850 - 1908)
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Carl Frederick Sørensen (1818 - 1879)
Carl Frederick Sørensen
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Jens Sørensen (1887 - 1953)
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Constantin Hansen (1804 - 1880)
Constantin Hansen
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Arne Jacobsen (1902 - 1971)
Arne Jacobsen
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Creators Art Nouveau

Jose Davila (1974)
Jose Davila
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Nadezhda Alekseevna Pavlovskaia (1925)
Nadezhda Alekseevna Pavlovskaia
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Ewald Wilhelm Mataré (1887 - 1965)
Ewald Wilhelm Mataré
1887 - 1965
Giosetta Fioroni (1932)
Giosetta Fioroni
1932
Helene Dolberg (1881 - 1979)
Helene Dolberg
1881 - 1979
Kazuya Sakai (1927 - 2001)
Kazuya Sakai
1927 - 2001
Carl Auböck (1900 - 1957)
Carl Auböck
1900 - 1957
Ephraim Moses Lilien (1874 - 1925)
Ephraim Moses Lilien
1874 - 1925
Eduard Bargheer (1901 - 1979)
Eduard Bargheer
1901 - 1979
Herwig Zens (1943 - 2019)
Herwig Zens
1943 - 2019
Jakob Sollberger (1943)
Jakob Sollberger
1943
Willem Grimm (1904 - 1986)
Willem Grimm
1904 - 1986
Carl Larsson (1853 - 1919)
Carl Larsson
1853 - 1919
Ben Nicholson (1894 - 1982)
Ben Nicholson
1894 - 1982
Gus Heinze (1926)
Gus Heinze
1926
Martin Erich Philipp (1887 - 1978)
Martin Erich Philipp
1887 - 1978
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