Tias Eckhoff
Mathias Gerhard "Tias" Eckhoff (25 June 1926 – 30 January 2016) was a Norwegian industrial designer.
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Tias Eckhoff
Karl Teigen · Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology: accession number DEX_T_4505_011 · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Born
- 1926 · Vestre Slidre Municipality.
- Died
- 2016
- Nationality
- Norway
- Occupation
- ceramicist · designer
- Honours
- Jacob Prize · Lunning Prize · Order of St. Olav
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Mathias Gerhard "Tias" Eckhoff (25 June 1926 – 30 January 2016) was a Norwegian industrial designer.
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Tias Eckhoff (1926–2016) was a ceramicist and designer, of Norwegian nationality. The ceramicist was born in Vestre Slidre Municipality.
Works are held at National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design and Nationalmuseum. Honours include Jacob Prize and Lunning Prize.
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Born in Vestre Slidre Municipality on 25 June 1926, Eckhoff was a son of shipmaster Trygve Eckhoff and Sigrid Einang, and was a brother of Torstein Eckhoff. He married Janicke Didrichsen in 1952.
Career
Career
He worked as designer for Porsgrunds Porselænsfabrik from 1949. Among his designs are Det riflede from 1952, Maya from 1961, and Una from 1973. He is represented in various museums, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. He was awarded the Lunning Prize in 1953. His designs won gold medals at the Triennale in Milan in 1954, 1957, and 1960.
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Eckhoff died in Gjøvik on 30 January 2016.
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