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Selected Honours and Awards

2006

Included in the Danish cultural canon

1988-90

Received awards and distinctions in recognition of her achievements in ceramics, including the Ole Haslund, Niels Larsen Stevns and Lis Ahlmann scholarships, as well as the National Bank’s Honorary Scholarship

1981

Awarded the Prince Eugen Medal, presented by the King of Sweden

1963

Awarded the Eckersberg Medal by the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts

1957

Gold medalist at the Triennial in Milan, Italy

Retrospectives

2011

Retrospective exhibition held at the Holstebro Art Museum and the Bornholm Art Museum

1984-85

The Danish Museum of Art and Design in Copenhagen, with a selection of the works later travelling to the National Museum in Stockholm and the Holstebro Art Museum

Public Collections

Holstebro Art Museum, Denmark

Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Museum of Art, Pennsylvania, USA

The National Museum of Stockholm, Sweden

Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK

Selected Exhibitions

2021

Lucie Rie & Gertrud Vasegaard, Erskine, Hall & Coe, London, UK

2011

Gertrud Vasegaard, Galerie Besson, London, UK

2002-04

From the Kilns of Denmark: Contemporary Danish Ceramics, a travelling exhibition held by the American Craft Museum, New York, Fitchburg Art Museum, Massachusetts, Mingei International Museum, San Diego, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, Racine Art Museum, Wisconsin, Maison du Danemark, Paris, and in the Felleshus of the Nordic Embassies in Berlin

1996

Unique, The Museum of Art and Design in Copenhagen, Denmark

1995

From the Golden Age to the Present Day: Two Centuries of Art and Craft in Denmark, Edinburgh, Scotland

1991

Danish Ceramics, Aarhus Art Exhibition Building, Aarhus, Denmark

1969-82

March Exhibition, Copenhagen, Denmark (every other year with 10 Danish abstract and figurative artists)

1969

Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

1968

Two Centuries of Danish Design, The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK

1962

Nordic Ceramics, Lund Art Gallery, Lund, Sweden

1960-61

The Arts of Denmark, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA

1958

Scandinavian Forms, The Louvre, Paris, France

1954-57

Design in Scandinavia, a travelling group exhibition hosted by 25 museums in the USA

1948

Bing & Grøndahl Stoneware, 1910-1948, Stockholm, Sweden

1947

New Stoneware from Bing & Grøndahl, Copenhagen, Denmark

1933

First exhibition at Corner and Bingers Kunsthandel, Copenhagen, Denmark