Effie Hegermann-Lindencrone

Effie Hegermann-Lindencrone trained at the The Women’s Drawing School in Copenhagen, where she met the porcelain painter Fanny Garde (1855–1928). The two women engaged in close collaboration for many years at the Bing & Grøndahl porcelain factory. Among other things, they greatly contributed to the execution of the impressive Heron dinner set presented at the Exposition Universelle in Paris in 1889.

Around the year 1900, Effie Hegermann-Lindencrone developed a personal and distinctive style based on complicated techniques of shaping and decoration. Carved and modelled in porcelain and painted using an underglaze technique and naturalistic colours, her works were carefully and individually created from scratch by herself. In this manner, Effie Hegermann-Lindencrone created a range of unique works which continue to bear witness to her great virtuosity and aesthetic sense.

In her own day, Effie Hegermann-Lindencrone achieved considerable recognition among her colleagues, private collectors, art critics and Europe’s major museums of decorative arts, which acquired her works. Today, she is considered one of the most significant talents within the realm of ceramics in Denmark, with an oeuvre spanning almost sixty years.