One of the finest industrial makers of the 20th century, Wilhelm Wagenfeld is a designer and instructor of the famous Bauhaus design school. Acknowledged popularly as the maker of the Wagenfeld Lampe, Wagenfeld is one of the standard icons of industrial design, with some still being produced 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 long run entered the Academy of Hanau but later transferred to the Bauhaus school in Weimar. During his travel period at Bauhaus, Wagenfeld worked together with colleague Karl Jacob Jucker on various designs, including the now-finest Wagenfeld Lampe and the Moka Machine espresso maker. Wagenfeld was greatly influenced by the modernist aesthetics fostered at the Bauhaus, and regardless of desolate criticism from his colleagues became one of the school’s most winning genius.
His studies at the Bauhaus ended, Wagenfeld went on to work with various firms and factoriesm counting the Lausitzer Glassworks plant, the Glaswerk Schott & Gen., Braun, and the kitchenware manufacture WMF. Wagenfeld also instructed at the Bauhaus school and at the Berlin Berlin Staatliche Kunsthochschule in 1931. When World War II tooked place, Wagenfeld was among the minority who declined to flee war-torn Germany, and was ultimately sent to the Eastern front and jailed at a Soviet prisoner-of-war camp. Wagenfeld was out after the war, and created his own creation studio, the Werkstatt Wagenfeld, which he directed until 1978. By the 1980s, Wagenfeld worked various of his creations, of which included the Wagenfeld Lampe, so that they can be mass-produced more competently.
Wagenfeld is still in teaching and creating designs until his death in May 1990. Now, 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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