One of the finest industrial makers of the 20th century, Wilhelm Wagenfeld is a designer and teacher of the prominent Bauhaus design school. Recognized popularly as the founder of the Wagenfeld Lampe, Wagenfeld is one of the traditional icons of industrial design, with some still being constructed to this day.
Born April 15, 1900 in Bremen, Germany, Wilhelm Wagenfeld learned drawing at an early age at a local school and was trainee at the Silberwarenfabrik Koch& Bergfeld. By 1918, Wagenfeld in the end entered the Academy of Hanau but later transferred to the Bauhaus school in Weimar. During his voyage period at Bauhaus, Wagenfeld cooperated with colleague Karl Jacob Jucker on various designs, including the well-known Wagenfeld Lampe and the Moka Machine espresso maker. Wagenfeld was deeply influenced by the modernist aesthetics fostered at the Bauhaus, and regardless of desolate criticism from his friends became one of the school’s most victorious genius.
His studies at the Bauhaus ended, Wagenfeld went on to work with various firms and factoriesm counting the Lausitzer Glassworks industrial unit, the Glaswerk Schott & Gen., Braun, and the kitchenware bussines WMF. Wagenfeld also teached at the Bauhaus school and at the Berlin Berlin Staatliche Kunsthochschule in 1931. When World War II tooked place, Wagenfeld was among the some who turned down to flee war-torn Germany, and was in the long run sent to the Eastern front and jailed at a Soviet prisoner-of-war camp. Wagenfeld was freed after the war, and made his own style studio, the Werkstatt Wagenfeld, which he supervised until 1978. By the 1980s, Wagenfeld worked numerous of his creations, of which included the Wagenfeld Lampe, so that they can be mass-produced more proficiently.
Wagenfeld remains teaching and creating designs until his death in May 1990. At present, his bequest continues to live on through productions of the Wagenfeld Lampe and his other designs that are still being manufactured today.
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