Erik Magnussen

He was from 1925 to 1939 based in the United States, initially as artistic director of the Gorham Manufacturing Company in New York City and later with his own workshop in first Chicago and then Los Angeles.

In 1907–09, he worked as a chaser in Otto Rohloff's workshop at the Unterrichtsanstalt des königlichen Kunstgewerbe-Museums (Royal School and Museum of Applied Arts) in Berlin, Germany.

He closed the shop in 1912 and accepted a post as Director of the Department of Arts and Crafts at Bing & Grøndahl, where he designed porcelains decorated with gold and silver.

He continued to make jewelry, and in 1922 one of his designs won the grand prize at the International Exposition in Rio de Janeiro.

He married Esther Margrethe Franck (13 October 1895 – 27 June 1992) a daughter of metalsmith and later rentier Frederik Wilhelm F. and Cathrine Frederikke Jensen, on 13 September 1941 in Skovshoved.