Bjørn Wiinblad
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Bjørn Wiinblad (20. September 1918 - 8. June 2006) was a Danish painter, designer and artist in ceramics, silver, bronze, textiles, and graphics. His work has been shown widely in Europe, in the United States of America first in 1954 and in Japan, Australia and Canada in 1968.
He was attached to the US Embassy in Paris in 1947 as a poster designer. Later his posters illustrated Tivoli and many other activities in Denmark, as well as the Olympic Games for the Handicapped at Seoul, the New World Symphony Orchestra academy in Miami, and the Royal Danish Ballet at the Metropolitan Opera House, all in 1988. His textile work produced the costumes for numerous ballets and stage presentations.
His large ceramics and tapestries have been used for hotel decorations in Japan and the USA; for example, he designed the large Sheherazade tapestry for the Dallas World Trade Center. He was Man of the Year in New York in 1985 and was awarded the American-Scandinavian Foundation’s Cultural Prize of 1995.
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