Bjorn winblad biography


Bjorn winblad biography

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    Bjørn Wiinblad

    Danish painter (1918–2006)

    Bjørn Wiinblad (20 September 1919 – 8 June 2006), was a Danishpainter, designer and artist in ceramics, silver, bronze, textiles, and graphics.

    His work has been shown widely in Europe, in the United States of America first in 1954 and in Japan, Australia and Canada in 1968. Wiinblad was named Man of the Year in New York in 1985 and was awarded the American-Scandinavian Foundation’s Cultural Prize of 1995.

    Bjorn wiinblad biography

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    Background

    Bjørn Wiinblad was born in Copenhagen, Denmark. He attended a drawing school in Copenhagen then from 1940 to 1943 he studied painting and illustration at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts.[1]

    Commissions

    He was attached to the United States Embassy in Paris in 1947 as a poster designer.

    Later his posters illustrated Copenhagen's famous Tivoli Gardens and many other activities in Denmark, as well as the Olympic Games for the Handicapped at Seoul, the New World Symphony Orchestra academy