Edward Hald - ORREFORS 90588 Edward Hald, Grail, Gallery 57-83

Orrefors Sweden art glass by Edward Hald (1883-1980) with original sticker.

'Slip Graal' bowl/candy dish on foot, with a blue swirl in clear glass design.

Marked: ORREFORS 958811 Edward Hald, Graal, Gallery 37-87
Diameter 23.5 Height 10 CM Base 7 CM
The Swede Edward Hald was a painter, graphic designer and glass and ceramic artist who initially studied economics in Leipzig and then architecture in Dresden. In 1907 he decided to become an artist and attended art academies in Stockholm and Paris, for example under Henri Matisse (1869-1954). In 1910 and 1911 he traveled to the Lofoten archipelago and Italy. He started painting landscapes, portraits and still lifes, influenced by Matisse, but after 1915 he turned to design. From 1917 he worked for porcelain factories and for the glass factories of Orrefors. From 1933 to 1944 he was also manager of the factory. Together with the glassblower Knut Bergqvist (1873-1953) and his colleague Simon Gate Halde, he developed the so-called Grailglas (Glass Cup) and the Swedish variant of Art Deco. In 1925 he made his international breakthrough together with Gate at the World Exhibition in Paris. Hald was also active in a number of institutions in the craft and glass industries. He competed twice in the Olympic art competitions, 1932 and 1936.