Susanne Ussing

Susanne Ussing ( born November 29, 1940, Frederiksborg, † March 8, 1998 in Gentofte ) was a Danish architect and artist.

Life

As the daughter of Archiektenehepaars Elsebeth (born Lind ) and Kjeld Jull Ussing Susanne Ussing was born on November 29, 1940 at Frederiksborg.

1955-59 she met at an art school for craftsmen and comes in 1960 at an architecture school. In the same year she married the journalist Torben Schmidt and brings her son Nicolai to the world. 1963 the family moved to Italy for a year. In 1964 she got her first major exhibition of ceramic works in her own boutique. In 1968, she moves in with her ​​former classmates Carsten Hoff. In 1969, the marriage ends in divorce with Torben Schmidt. Greater success will come with the exhibitions Sanserum a 1-6 ( interior 1-6) 1968-1971. 1969 to 1973 she teaches spatial perception together with Hoff at a school of architecture. 1977 first her father dies, a few months later her mother. In 1983 she marries with the architect Carsten Hoff.

1984 burns a large part of their paper work in her studio. In 1987 there was a big retrospective exhibition of her work in the 1957-87 North Jutland Art Museum. In 1988, she gets along with the Hoff Nykredits Arkitekturpris and soon you will be awarded the Eckersberg medal.