Danish sculptor, 1899 – 1976
Arno Malinowski was one of Denmark’s most multifaceted designers; he worked with a huge variation of materials, among those silver, bronze, porcelain, bisquit, clay and paper.
Arno Malinowski was one of few Danish art deco artists and his style was both simple and sophisticated, with an impeccable eye for the possibilities of the different materials.
The inspiration for the art deco style came from Egyptian, Japanese and pre-Colombian art, which is also visible in the works of Arno Malinowski.
After ending the education as a medal maker Arno Malinowski also completed the sculptor education at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen in 1922. Afterwards he was employed at the Royal Factory of Porcelain (Den Kongelige Porcelænsfabrik), where he created a huge number of sculptures in porcelain and bisquit.
In 1936 Arno Malinowski started working for Georg Jensen and in the following years he created a line of jewellery, bowls, cutlery, vases, pitchers and medals in silver, gold and iron. Of his work, his jewellery had an especially great influence on the Danish art of jewellery.
In the first years of the German occupation of Denmark Arno Malinowski designed the so-called ‘king mark’, which became a great success. Arno Malinowski’s artefacts were gifted with a silver medal at the 1925 World Exhibition in Paris and several other awards.