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Wilhelm Wagenfeld.!
Wilhelm Wagenfeld.
Wilhelm Wagenfeld
German industrial designer (1900–1990)
Wilhelm Wagenfeld (15 April 1900, Bremen, German Empire — 28 May 1990, Stuttgart, West Germany) was a German industrial designer and former student of the Bauhaus art school.
He designed glass and metal works for the Jenaer Glaswerk Schott & Gen., the Vereinigte Lausitzer Glaswerke in Weißwasser, Rosenthal, Braun GmbH and WMF. Some of his designs are still produced to this day.[1]
Biography
Wagenfeld undertook an apprenticeship as an industrial technical drawer at Koch & Bergfeld,[2] a Bremen silverware factory from 1914 to 1918, attending the Bremen Kunstgewerbeschule (a school of applied arts) from 1916 to 1919.
He trained to become a silversmith at the Zeichenakademie Hanau from 1919 to 1922. From 1923 to 1925 he studied at Bauhaus in Weimar.[3] He undertook a preliminary course with László Moholy-Nagy in his third year, and later trained in the Bauhaus metal works