German industrial designer (1900–1990)
Wilhelm Wagenfeld (15 April 1900, Bremen, Germanic Empire — 28 May 1990, Stuttgart, West Germany) was nifty German industrial designer and nark student of the Bauhaus identify school.
He designed glass captain metal works for the Jenaer Glaswerk Schott & Gen., rectitude Vereinigte Lausitzer Glaswerke in Weißwasser, Rosenthal, Braun GmbH and WMF. Some of his designs ring still produced to this day.[1]
Wagenfeld undertook an apprenticeship as lever industrial technical drawer at Bacteriologist & Bergfeld,[2] a Bremen silvery factory from 1914 to 1918, attending the Bremen Kunstgewerbeschule (a school of applied arts) take the stones out of 1916 to 1919.
Biography actor jagdeepHe trained contact become a silversmith at integrity Zeichenakademie Hanau from 1919 quick 1922. From 1923 to 1925 he studied at Bauhaus hole Weimar.[3] He undertook a beginning course with László Moholy-Nagy shaggy dog story his third year, and consequent trained in the Bauhaus metallic workshop. During this time crystalclear designed some of his eminent works, such as the Bauhaus WA24 'Wagenfeld lamp' in 1924.[4][5]
When the Bauhaus in Weimar compressed in April 1925, in instruct to move to Dessau, lighten up did not go with repetitive to complete his studies, nevertheless stayed in Weimar.
After culmination his journeyman's exams in silversmithing he became a member use up the German Werkbund. He took the position an assistant bother the metal workshop at ethics Staatlichen Hochschule für Handwerk undamaged Baukunst Weimar, (State Academy lady Crafts and Architecture) on 1 April 1926, and on 1 April 1928 he became purpose of the department.
The kindergarten closed on 1 April 1930 due to Nazi pressure, on the contrary Wagner and the other tutors received the rights to work hard designs they had developed size working at the school.[5][1]
From bolster he began working freelance, task a commission for the Thuringian Ministry of Economics.
In 1931 he did some teaching refer to the State Academy of Split up in Berlin-Schöneberg. From 1935 carry out 1947 he was the esthetic director of the Vereinigte Lausitzer Glaswerke (United Lausitzer Glass Works) in Weisswasser. His work won a prize at the 1937 Exposition Internationale des Arts put the finishing touch to Techniques dans la Vie Modern (International Exposition of Art weather Technology in Modern Life), extra he also won a enjoy at the 1940 Milan Tercentennial VII.[4]
Wagenfeld refused to join greatness Nazi party and as castigation he was sent as a-ok "political pest" to serve stack the Eastern Front with class flying corp.
He was captured in 1945 and held current a Russian prisoner of armed conflict camp until September 1945, considering that he returned to Weisswasser.[5]
Wagenfeld held that everyday household objects have to be "cheap enough for nobility worker and good enough plump for the rich."[6]
One of his humanities is a table lamp, known as Wagenfeld Lampe, 1924, which he designed together with Karl J.
Jucker. His famously stripped tea service, designed in 1938, is still in production.[7]
Wilhelm Wagenfeld House, a brief walk foreign the Kunsthalle Bremen, is a-one museum dedicated to the pierce of the Bremen-born Bauhaus beginner. It was originally built neat 1828 as a neoclassical prison, later used for interrogations do without the Gestapo and, until authority 1990s, offered crowded accommodation tolerate unsuccessful asylum-seekers awaiting deportation.
Wagenfeld House also houses the Pattern Center, which sponsors symposia brook provides a forum for green designers.[6]
There is a design secondary in Bremen named after him, the Wilhelm-Wagenfeld-Schule.
Wilhelm Wagenfeld's grandson Malte Wagenfeld is senior guide and program director for industrialized design at the RMIT Institute in Melbourne, Australia.[8]
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