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Jørn Micke
A brief profile of Danish master Jørn Micke (1937-2005), who left his medical studies to settle on the island of Bornholm and made no more than about twenty pipes a year.
Jørn Micke (1937-2005) belongs to the second generation of Danish pipemaking, a master who left behind very few pipes despite a wide reputation attached to his name. He spent most of his life on Bornholm, the Danish island in the Baltic Sea, working in painting and sculpture alongside pipes.
From Medicine to the Workshop
Micke's first professional choice was medicine; in his youth he studied medicine in Copenhagen. According to the account given, this direction began to unravel after a trip to Bornholm in 1958, and turned into a lasting decision the following year on his second visit to the island. He had drawn since childhood; a pipe-smoking habit begun early on led him to carve a few pipes for his own use.
What turned this amateur pursuit into a profession was his friendship with Sixten Ivarsson, formed through a shared passion for fishing. After working roughly a year as an apprentice in Ivarsson's workshop, Micke settled permanently on Bornholm in 1963 and set up his own bench. From that point on the idea of medicine never resurfaced; he made his living through a threefold artistic output of painting, sculpture, and pipes.
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