Effie Hegermann-Lindencrone

She adopted the Art Nouveau style, with subjects such as aquatic plants, seaweed, birds and fish, often depicted in carved scenes on her vases.

While studying at the Arts and Crafts School for Women under Pietro Krohn, she met Fanny Garde who became her lifelong companion.

[1] Together with Garde, in 1885 she worked at G. Eifrig's ceramics workshop in Valby before joining Bing & Grøondahl's factory the following year where they decorated the Heron Set, pioneering the firm's underglaze technique.

[1][4] Thereafter the two companions were permanently employed at Bing & Grøndahl's where they shared a studio, becoming female exceptions to work which at the time was usually carried out by men.

No doubt influenced by her factory director Jens Ferdinand Willumsen, she developed her own more plastic decorative style, pioneering the use of plants as a subject in underglaze porcelain.