) was a Swedish ceramic designer, glass designer, textile designer, industrial designer, painter, and illustrator.

One of Sweden

Sweden

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's most important postwar designers, Lindberg created whimsical studio ceramics and graceful tableware lines during a long career with the Gustavsberg pottery factory. Stig Lindberg studied painting at the University College of Arts, Crafts and Design

Konstfack

Konstfack or University College of Arts, Crafts and Design is a university college for higher education in the area of art, crafts and design in Stockholm, Sweden.- History :...

. In 1937, he went to work at Gustavsberg under Wilhelm Kåge. In 1949, he was named Kåge's successor as art director. From this period until he left Gustavsberg in 1980, he designed individual ceramic items, as well as factory produced ranges and lines of dinnerware. He achieved fame for his eccentric forms and whimsical decoration. In 1982, he died due to a myocardial infarction

Myocardial infarction

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His work was featured in an exhibition, Utställning: ©Stig Lindberg (Exhibition: ©Stig Lindberg), at the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm from 11 May 2006 to 25 February 2007.

Career

• 1937–1957 and 1970–1980 Gustavsberg
  Gustavsberg
  Gustavsberg is a locality and the seat of Värmdö Municipality in Stockholm County, Sweden with 9,682 inhabitants in 2005. It is most known for its porcelain factory, Gustavsberg porcelain, and toilet bowls distributed nationwide and internationally....
  
   (art director 1949–1957, 1972–1978)
• 1947–1982 Nordiska Kompaniet
  Nordiska Kompaniet
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  , textile designer
• 1957–1970 University College of Arts, Crafts and Design, Konstfack, senior lecturer
• 1980–1982 Own studio, Italy

Awards

• 1948, 1957 Milan Triennale, gold medal
• 1951, 1954 Milan Trienalle, grand prix
• 1957 Gregor Paulsson Trophy
• 1968 Prince Eugen Medal
  Prince Eugen Medal
  The Prince Eugen Medal , is a medal conferred by the King of Sweden for "outstanding artistic achievement". The medal was established in 1945 by the then King of Sweden, Gustaf V in 1945, in connection with the eightieth birthday of his brother Prince Eugen who was a noted painter and art...
  
  
• 1973 Faenza, Gold Medal

External links

• Stig Lindberg Exhibition at National Museum, Stockholm, Sweden