Stoltenberg-Lerche, Hans Stephan (1867 - 1920)

Norwegian painter, sculptor and designer. He studied painting in Italy and Paris. He moved to Paris in 1886 and studied under Ernest Carriére (Strasbourg, 1858 – Paris, 1908; French painter and modeller, manager of J. Th. Deck’s factory.) He produced designs for a number of bronze foundries and ceramics factories. After 1900 he lived in Rome, while his ceramics workshop was in his villa at Heimbergthun (Switzerland). He produced and manufactured coloured, ’’engobe” lead-glazed ceramics. Besides vases and plates he manufactured portraits and grotesque figures. He participated at the International Arts and Crafts Exhibition ofT\irin.Also,:he tried out his skills in other fields of the applied arts: he designed metal objects and jewellery. He carried out a famous experiment with coloured glass vessels at the Fratelli Toso firm around 1915.