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industrial art.
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work on a very large scale. In addition to the large
Guldsmedsaktiebolaget, of Stockholm, which supplies all the goldsmiths and silversmiths of
the country with goods, the three firms, C, G. Hallberg, K. Andersson,
and Gust. Möllenborg have large workshops in Stockholm, the first two
with branches in provincial towns. Among the more prominent artists
who have worked for these firms, may be mentioned Ferd. Boberg, — who
in this branch of art has produced perhaps his most exquisite compositions
— Agi Lindegren, Vict. Andrén, Olga Lannér, and II. Lundstedt.
In the treatment of the base metals for the purposes of industrial art,
artistic ironsmith’s work occupies a prominent place, and grows in
popularity from day to day. Petrus Forsberg, Stockholm, carries on this
beautiful work on a large scale. Among other excellent producers of
artistic ironsmith’s work may be specially mentioned Petter på Myra, of
Arvika. In artistic founding,: H. Bergman and 0. Meyer, both of
Stockholm, vie with each other in producing work of singular perfection.
During the last few years, a sculptor, II. Elmquist, has employed a method of
casting invented by him, which has attracted attention for the possibilities
it affords of producing delicate artistic effects.
Finally, as regards artistic bookbinding, this branch of industrial art is
pursued with unrivalled elegance and taste by Gust. Hedberg, of
Stockholm.
Nearly all the professional designers who have been mentioned above,
as working in the. various forms of industrial art, have been trained in
the higher industrial-art division of the Technical School, Stockholm.
This institution, which is a most excellent one of its kind, and whose
principals (F. Adler was succeeded by Th. Thorén in 1910) unremittingly
endeavour to conduct the instruction on modern lines, possesses a staff of
excellent teachers and is attended by a very considerable number of pupils.
The other technical schools of the country, of which those at Gothenburg
and Malmö are the principal, are under the inspection of the Director of
the Technical School of Stockholm.
The Technical School of Stockholm was founded in the middle of last
century by the Svenska Slöjdföreningen — the Swedish Sloyd (Industrial
Art) Association —, which in many ways, has contributed to the progress
made by the industrial art of Sweden.
Founded as early as the forties and recruited from those employed
in industrial art and from other interested circles, the Society has arranged
prize-competitions and lotteries for artistic objects; technical lectures and
exhibitions of older and newer productions of industrial art have been
held at its meetings, and it has also issued handbooks, designs, and returns
(Sw. meddelanden). Since 1905, this publication has been entitled the
"Svenska Slöjdföreningens Tidskrift" (The Swedish Industrial Art
Association’s Journal). Among the more important measures and undertakings
of the Society, may be mentioned, in addition to the establishment of the
Technical School of Stockholm, the presentation to the State in 1884 of the
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