Stig Lindberg, 1949 (photo)

Stig Lindberg (17 August 1916 in Umeå, Sweden – 7 April 1982 in San Felice Circeo, Italy) was a Swedish ceramic designer, glass designer, textile designer, industrial designer, painter, and illustrator. One of Sweden's most important postwar designers, Lindberg created whimsical studio ceramics and graceful tableware lines during a long career with the Gustavsberg pottery factory. Stig Lindberg studied painting at the University College of Arts, Crafts and Design. In 1937, he went to work at Gustavsberg under Wilhelm Kåge. In 1949, he was named Kåge's successor as art director. From this period until he left Gustavsberg in 1980, he designed individual ceramic items, as well as factory produced ranges and lines of dinnerware. He achieved fame for his eccentric forms and whimsical decoration. He died from a myocardial infarction in 1982. Photographed 1949 at the Gustavsberg porcelain factory recently as the factory's artistic director in 1949. He is here 33 years old. Here in the faience painting studio with his "right hand" Maja Snis, 1918-1950. Together with Stig Lindberg, she developed the Flora tableware decor. She mainly painted flowers and had a fish as her painting signature. Maja Snis was considered one of the most skilled faience painters at the factory. She was active at the factory from 1941 until her death in 1950.