Kähler Keramik and Einar Johansen

995

Set of 3 vases

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3 vases from feft to right:

Blue vases (2)

Probably Nils Kähler (1906-1979)

Glazed ceramics

(1) H: 10,5 cm

(2) H: 26 cm

Kähler Keramik, Denmark, 1950’s

 

 

Handsigned on base with HAK

Kähler Keramik is a Danish ceramics firm, originally established in Næstved. Joachim Christian Herman Kähler (1808–84) established himself as a potter there in 1839, producing heating stoves, cooking pots and kitchenware. His sons and grandsons took over the family business until the company was sold to Næstved Municipality in 1974. It was subsequently resold to a series of new owners. Since 2007, it has been owned by Frantz Longhi.

 

Einar Johansen (1906)

Beige and brown vase

Glazed ceramics

H.: 10 cm

Søholm Stentøj, Denmark, 1960’s

Marked on the base with “EJ”

Søholm Stentøj was established on the Danish island, Bornholm, which is famous for its pottery and fine ceramics. Søholm was founded in 1835, in Rønne, Bornholm by Herman Sonne Wolffsen and Edvard Christian Sonne, making it one of the oldest ceramic factories on Bornholm, until its closure in 1996. In the mid-20th century, Søholm produced a huge range of stoneware with different designs and shapes. Einar Johansen designed and created a wide range of stoneware, where his “blue series” is highly sought after today among collectors. This very nice pottery vase from Einar Johansen is made of beige stoneware with a matt brown glaze on the outside and a shiny blue glaze on the inside. The vase is subtly decorated with a printed motif. It is marked one the base with the manufacturer’s stamp, handmade and the designers initials ‘EJ’.

 

Einar Johansen

Einar Johansen was a Danish ceramicist, who trained as a painter at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, but later changed his mind and became a pottery maker. He had his own pottery in the period 1935-1958.

He was employed at Søholm Stentøj from 1958 to 1968 and designed several beautiful pieces of pottery. Johansen worked for Knabstrup (a Danish Pottery) in the early 1970s.