rebessin
Sweden
Grown up at Strömbergshyttans glassworks, Sweden. Worked there for a short period in the mid-1970s. My grandfather is Knut Bergqvist, inventor of the Graal techniqueGrown up at Strömbergshyttans glassworks, Sweden. Worked there for a short period in the mid-1970s. My grandfather is Knut Bergqvist, inventor of the Graal technique at Orrefors in summer 1916. Gate and Hald used the Graal method in their compositions, from some time into 1917, to create great art glass. Sometimes in collaboration with master blower Bergqvist by shape. But most early Graal compositions from 1916 and many from 1917 (some even later), however has the blower himself, Knut Bergqvist, as the author of shape, while the patterns in the beginning were both designed and etched by Heinrich Wollman and Fritz Blomqvist on the emryos that Bergvist produced. My father, Putte Bergqvist, was also a glassblower and foreman at Strömbergshyttan from about 1940 to 1979, when the mill was closed. then for Orrefors. He became good friend with Erik Höglund under his period at Studioglass Strömbergshyttan under the 1980s and 90s. I am interested in glass, but also photography. I have photo documented some of the last remaining of the Swedish Kingdom of Crystal today. Eg Kosta, Orrefors, Åfors, Bergdala, Skruf and some smaller studio glassworks. (Read more)
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