Wilhelm Wagenfeld&Otto Lindig

Wilhelm Wagenfeld
(15 April 1900, Bremen,
Germany)

He was an important
German industrial designer of
the 20th Century, disciple of
Bauhaus.

Wilhelm Wagenfeld
He opposed the idea of self-centered design, he claimed that industry
is a collaborative design activity has nothing in common with the
artist's work. He denied that the function as a decisive factor in the
form of that function is not the ultimate goal, but a prerequisite for
good design. This concept in his former Bauhaus colleagues are rare.
So he designed these products are not decorative, but emphasizes
clean lines and subtle changes in size, have the restraint to explore
the characteristics of plastic glass.

Wilhelm Wagenfeld
In 1923, he set up a workshop at
the Barkenhoff in Worpswede with
Bernhard Hoetger and Heinrich
Vogeler. This is also the year that he
began studying at the State
Bauhaus in Weimar. During this
time, Wagenfeld designed works
such as his famous Bauhaus lamp in
1924.

Bauhaus Lamp (Wagenfeld lampe)

One of his classics is a table lamp,
known as Wagenfeld Lampe, 1924,
which he designed together with Karl J.
Jucker. In cooperation with Charles
Crodel his works found their way into
exhibitions and museums. Thereto
Crodel developed a patented decoration
technique for the industrial mass
production.
Nickel plated metal, opaque globe.

Bauhaus Lamp (Wagenfeld lampe)

Wagenfelds achievement is evident in
the balanced solution for the
proportions and the functional clarity of
the lamp. He had actually designed it as
an all-purpose lamp for the illumination
of living spaces and not just a table
lamp.
On the other hand, its geometric
structure largely followed the
specifications of his teacher Lszl
Moholy-Nagy.

Fireproof Glass Teapot

Otto Lindig
Lindig was born in Pneck, Germany.
Otto Lindig (1881 1966) was a
German master potter who was a
student and later a workshop manager
at the famous Bauhaus art school in
Weimar, Germany.

experience
From 1919 on, he worked as a sculptor in a masters studio at the Weimar Bauhaus, and
in November 1920 became an apprentice at the Bauhaus ceramics workshop in
Dornburg. At that time, it had already been equipped by Gerhard Marcks and the first
Bauhaus students.
He held this position until the closure of the Bauhaus in Weimar on 31 March 1925. After
a period of uncertainty, the workshop was taken over by the Weimar College of Crafts
and Architecture and Otto Lindig was appointed sole director of the Ceramics Workshop
in Dornburg.
When the College of Architecture in Weimar also had to close in 1930, Lindig continued
to run the Dornburg workshop as leaseholder. In 1947, he accepted an appointment by
his former teacher, Gerhard Marcks, to a teaching post as head of the ceramics master
class at the State College of Art in Hamburg (the later Academy of Fine Arts), where he
remained until his retirement in 1961. Otto Lindig died in Wiesbaden on 4 June 1966.

Tall lidded pot

The tall lidded pot with etched decoration
was the apprenticeship piece with which
he successfully completed his training in
1922. He started making his first ceramic
pieces using a casting technique in 1923
with the L1 combination teapot. In his
apprenticeship piece, Lindig combines his
sculptural experience with traditional
pottery techniques, including even the
scoring technique, which was already in
use during the Neolithic period.
The body of the pot recalls a portly male
figure, amusingly completed by a lid
resembling a hat. The shining yellow glaze
further accentuates the works lively aura;
Lindig used the same glaze in other
ceramic pieces.

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