German design 1949-1989 : two countries, one history /

German design 1949-1989 : two countries, one history /

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Imprint:Weil am Rhein : Vitra Design Museum ; Dresden : Kunstgewerbemuseum, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden ; Ludwigsburg : Wüstenrot Stiftung, [2021]
©2021
Description:320 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles, portraits ; 28 cm
Language:English
Subject:
Design -- Germany -- History -- 20th century -- Exhibitions.
Design.
Germany.
Exhibition catalogs.
History.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12575036
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Other authors / contributors:Pinner, Erika, editor.
Nemečkova, Klara, editor.
Engelmann, Herwig, translator.
Vitra Design Museum, host institution.
Kunstgewerbemuseum (Dresden, Germany), host institution.
ISBN:9783945852446
3945852447
Notes:Catalog of an exhibition held at Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, Germany, March 20-September 5, 2021 ; Kunstgewerbemuseum, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden, Germany, October 15, 2021-February 20, 2022.
"With works by: Otl Aicher, Helmut Bätzner, Hans Theo Baumann, Günter Beltzig, Max Bill, Doris Casse-Schlüter, Luigi Colani, Egon Eiermann, Willy fleckhaus, Hans Gugelot, Margret Hildebrand, Herbert Hirche, Heinrich Löffelhardt, Ingo Maurer, Trude Petri, Dieter Rams, Hans (Nick) Roericht, Richard Sapper, Claudia Skoda, Wilhelm Wagenfeld, Hedwig Bollhagen, Hans Brockhage, Friedrich Bundtzen, Karl Clauss Dietel, Ilse Decho, Wolfgang Dyroff, Franz Ehrlich, Rudolf Horn, Rudi Högner, Margarete Jahny, Martin Kelm, Albert Krause, Hans Merz, Horst Michel, Renate Müller, Christa Petroff-Bohne, Lothar Reher, Lutz Rudolph, Selman Selmanagić, Klaus Wittkugel"--Page 2 of cover.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:The cheap, colourful plastic designs from East Germany pitted against the cool functionalism of West German design: The publication German Design 1949 - 1989: Two Countries, One History does away with such cliches. More than 30 years after German reunification, it presents a comprehensive overview of German design history of the post-war period for the first time ever. With over 300 illustrations and numerous examples from the fields of design-fashion, furniture, graphics, automobile, industrial, and interiors - the book shows how design featured in daily life on both sides of the Wall, the important part it played in the reconstruction process and how it served as a propaganda tool during the Cold War. While the book highlights the different realities of East and West, the many cross references that connected design in both are also examined. It impressively illustrates the many facets of German design history in the post-war period: from the domestic sphere to global politics, from industrial products to design's role as a tool of protest that foreshadowed the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. With contributions by Paul Betts, Greg Castillo, Petra Eisele, Siegfried Gronert, Jana Scholze, Katharina Pfutzner, Eli Rubin, Katrin Schreiter, Oliver Sukrow, Carsten Wolff, among others; interviews with Prem Krishnamurthy, Renate Muller and Dieter Rams.
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue. Two countries, one history? Design encounters East and West / Erika Pinner and Klára Němečková
  • Delayed history: a call for complicated narratives / Jana Scholze
  • Selected works
  • 1949-1960. Chronicle
  • Design schools and the legacy of Modernism up to the late 1960s / Siegfried Gronert
  • Furnishing a future: German model home interiors, 1949-60 / Greg Castillo
  • Case study: the "School of Good Taste," the Werkbund after 1950 / Mea Hoffmann
  • Case study: the Deutsche Werkstätten in divided Germany / Klára Němečková
  • Case study: Wilhelm Wagenfeld and design continuity / Paul Betts
  • Interview: Prem Krishnamurthy in conversation with Erika Pinner
  • Selected works
  • Photo series: the Berlin Wall
  • 1961-1972. Chronicle
  • Plastics, design, and socialism in East Germany / Eli Rubin
  • "One Germany or two; we aren't politicians": the struggle for peaceful coexistence in German design's East-West encounters / Katrin Schreiter
  • Case study: Josep Renau's mural "Die Bezhiehung des Menschen zu Natur und Technik" / Oliver Sukrow
  • Case study: Performance, form, quality: HELIRADIO / Fine Kugler
  • Case study: the coolly calculated ecstasy of colour. Willy Fleckhaus: Edition Suhrkamp / Carsten Wolff
  • Interview: Dieter Rams in conversation with Mateo Kries
  • Selected works
  • 1973-1989. Chronicle
  • Flight from industry: designers in the GDR Resist / Katharina Pfützner
  • Alternative design and design alternatives: developments and discourses in West German design of the 1970s and 1980s / Petra Eisele
  • Case study: "a new car is catching on": the new VW Golf / Isabelle Schorer
  • Case study: material alternatives and spaces for possibility: the fashion designer Augusta Pohle / Kerstin Stöver
  • Case study: rapprochement and mutual recognition: design shows in East Berlin, Leipzig, and Stuttgart / Klára Němečková
  • Interview: Renate Müller in conversation with Thomas A. Geisler
  • Selected works.
The Helen Lee Memorial Fund bookplate

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