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- Wilhelm Wagenfeld
- Also known as
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Wilhelm Wagenfeld
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primary name: Wagenfeld, Wilhelm
- Details
- individual; goldsmith/metalworker; German; Male
- Life dates
- 1900-1990
- Biography
- Goldsmith and designer. Wagenfeld trained initially as a goldsmith in Bremen and at the Zeichenakademie, Hanau. He joined the Bauhaus Metal Workshop in 1923 and then taught at the Bauhaus from 1926 to 1931. From 1931 to 1939 he worked for Schott Glaswerke on a freelance basis, and at the same time made designs for the Vereinigte Lausitze Glaswerke, where he was Art Director from 1935 to 1947, and for Fürstenberg porcelain Wagenfeld is one of the few Bauhaus designers to have established continued involvement with industry, designing mass-produced objects according to modernist ideals of simplicity.
- Bibliography
- Cologne 1973, Kunstgewerbemuseum, 'Wilhelm Wagenfeld, 50 Jahre Mitarbeit in Fabriken', exhibition catalogue no. 61.
Bremen 1987, Bremer Landesmuseum, 'Taglich in der Hand: Industrieformen von Wilhelm Wagenfeld aus 6 Jahrzehnten', exhibition catalogue, eds. B. Manske and G. Scholz.
H. Loffelhardt, 'Wie Wohnen. Hausrat und Keramik, Glas, Holz', Stuttgart 1949 Zurich 1960, Kunstgewerbemuseum, 'Industrieware von Wilhelm Wagenfeld: Künstlerische Mitarbeitin der Industrie 1930-1969', exhibition catalogue.
'William Wagenfeld', exhibition catalogue, Die Neue Sammlung des Bayerischen National-Museums, Munich 1939
'William Wagenfield. Kunst in Gebrauch', exhibition catalogue, Kunsthistorissches Institut der Universitat Bonn, Bonn 1988
Immenhausen 1988, Freund der Glaskunst Richard Süssmuth e. V., 'Wilhelm Wagenfeld-Glasdesign. Objekte aus der Sammlung Günter , Berlin', exhibition catalogue.