Object
Stoneware
3,30 x 35,30 cm
, 1971
RKM 44-1971
Purchase
Currently not on display
Description
Plate of stoneware with brown glaze. During the 1960s and ’70s Stig Lindberg’s stoneware changed. He gave the pieces a greater sculptural weight than before. The colour scale of the glazes also became more muted. Some pieces featured coarse, uneven surfaces and sharp contrasts between the glazed and unglazed sections. This change in Lindberg’s way of working with stoneware showed how he responsively kept up with the times. The elegant and slightly delicate ideal of form that had dominated Sweden in the 1950s was widely replaced in the following decade by the pursuit of a more rustic style.
The development in Lindberg’s stoneware during the 1960s and ’70s has clear parallels with what was happening among younger ceramic artists, many of whom were embracing clay as an expressive material. As the head instructor in ceramics at the University College of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm from 1957 to 1972, Lindberg was in close contact with a new generation of ceramic artists. His students included Britt-Ingrid Persson, Margareta Hennix, Bertil Vallien and Ulrica Hydman-Vallien.
Exhibition History
Prunus, Tahiti och Batalj - Stig Lindberg i samlingarna, Göteborg, Röhsska museet, 22/06/2016 - 28/08/2016