Mats Jonasson
Illustration — Glass relief Lynx signature collection by Mats Jonasson 1986 Mats Jonasson (born 1945) is a Swedish glass designer. Coming from a glassworkers family, he started to learn glass engraving when he was 14 years old. He is notable for his engraved lead crystal sculptures of flowers and wildlife that are manufactured by the glassworks in Målerås, Sweden and are marketed around the world.
Mats Jonasson
Jörgen Ludwigsson, Kulturparken Småland AB / Smålands museum · CC BY 4.0
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- 1945 · Målerås.
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- Sweden
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- designer · glass artist
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Illustration — Glass relief Lynx signature collection by Mats Jonasson 1986 Mats Jonasson (born 1945) is a Swedish glass designer. Coming from a glassworkers family, he started to learn glass engraving when he was 14 years old. He is notable for his engraved lead crystal sculptures of flowers and wildlife that are manufactured by the glassworks in Målerås, Sweden and are marketed around the world.
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He is represented with several works at the Småland Museum in Växjö, Sweden. One of his larger public sculptures is the Glass Angel in the children section at the Skogskyrkogården ('The Woodland Cemetery') in Ljungby. In 1981, when Kosta Boda, the owner of Målerås glassworks, wanted to close down the production in Målerås, Jonasson and his colleagues bought the glassworks to keep it running. A few years later, Orrefors Glassworks (now merged with Kosta Boda), made a new bid for Målerås glassworks. This time the residents of Målerås, united around the local glassworks and formed a cooperation with Jonasson as CEO, to strengthen its position. Orrefors had been moving part of the production abroad, but Målerås wanted to keep the "Made in Sweden" trademark strong. In 2014, the company had over 50 employees, including designer Ludvig Löfgren who was recruited from Orrefors.
• Illustration — Målerås glassworks in 2019 • Pininfarinas bergrum Uddevalla, 2012 • Steninge Palace Uppsala, 2014 • Målerås glasbruk, 2019 • Vårsalongen Centrumgalleriet Gamleby, 2019 • NP33 och Galleri Sander Norrköping, 2020 • Galleri Nordica Ystad, 2021
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Mats Jonasson was born in 1945 at Målerås.
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- 1.Rosa Barovier Mentasti. Glass Throughout Time: History and Technique of Glassmaking from the Ancient World to the Present. Skira. 271. 2003. 978-88-8491-345-6.
- 2.British Glass Manufacturers' Confederation. Mats Jonasson: Sculptor Of Crystal Pictures. www.britglass.org.uk. January 2006.
- 3.Mats Jonasson Glass Identification Guide Glass Encyclopedia. www.20thcenturyglass.com.
- 4.Digitalt Museum. Vas "Pussy Willow" by Mats Jonasson. www.digitaltmuseum.se. 22 August 2024.
- 5.Idofsson, Sven-Inge. Glasskulptur invigd på kyrkogården. www.smalanningen.se. Smålänningen. 23 May 2021.
- 6.Ericsson, Anne-Marie Ericsson. The Brilliance of Swedish Glass, 1918-1939. Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts. 314. 1996. 9780300070057.
- 7.Centro di ricerca "Arti e mestieri". La grande Europa dei mestieri d'arte. Vita e pensiero. 422. 2007. 9788834315668.
- 8.Gustavsson, Agneta. Svenskproducerat i Målerås. SVT Nyheter. Sveriges Television. 15 May 2014.
- 9.Rademark, Maria. Snart öppnar bergrummet för konst. www.bohuslaningen.se. Bohusläningen. 2012-07-04.
- 10.Santiago, Jeanina. En smak av glasriket på Steninge slottsgalleria. www.unt.se. Upsala Nya Tidning. 2014-02-18.
- 11.Barometern. Målerås visar glas och keramik under vernissagehelgen. www.barometern.se. 24 April 2019.
- 12.Johansson-Hjortvid, Ingrid. Långväga utställare på Vårsalongen. www.vt.se. Västerviks-Tidningen. 2019-03-01.
- 13.Pihlblad, Mikael. Konstnärer söker sin form i fullmatad utställning. www.nt.se. Norrköpings Tidningar. 2020-11-20.
- 14.Mårtensson, Ulf. Akvareller och glaskonst på Nordica. www.ystadsallehanda.se. Ystads Allehanda. 8 October 2021.
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