Nils Thorsson was a Danish ceramic artist, designer, and artistic director whose work at Royal Copenhagen and Aluminia defined much of Denmark’s 20th-century ceramic identity. Trained at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, he joined Aluminia as a young apprentice and quickly rose to become its leading designer and later artistic director. Over his five-decade career, Thorsson oversaw some of the factory’s most beloved series, including Baca and Tenera, blending traditional craftsmanship with modern aesthetics. He was known for his mastery of form and glaze, uniting delicate hand-painted decoration with sculptural precision. Thorsson also mentored a generation of ceramic artists — among them Kari Christensen — shaping the expressive, textural style that brought Scandinavian ceramics international acclaim in the 1950s and 1960s.