Christian Joachim (1870-1943), Painter

• Trained as a painter at the Academy of Arts, Copenhagen
• Studied stoneware in Paris 1906
• Private workshop with silversmith Georg Jensen 1897-1901
• Employed by the Aluminia faience factory from 1901
• Attached to Royal Copenhagen Porcelain Manufactory 1922-1933

The renewer of Danish faience
"We will not make porcelain or majolica, but our own faience: a type with characteristics of our own nation". These are the words of the designer behind Blue Pheasant and Golden Summer, painter and ceramist Christian Joachim. And both faience services are indeed brilliant examples of how elegant he carried out his mission.

Christian Joachim worked very much on faience's own terms, using an underglaze pallet in which the ultramarine dominates. This deep stain is supported by dark green, purple, strong yellow, brown and red. All of these colours shape the unpretentious decoration that characterises Golden Summer.