Father Of The Finest Wagenfeld Lampe, A Quality Industrial Designer And A Professor: Wilhelm Wagenfeld

One of the best 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 constructed to this day.

Born April 15, 1900 in Bremen, Germany, Wilhelm Wagenfeld revised drawing at an early period 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 moved to the Bauhaus school in Weimar. During his travel period at Bauhaus, Wagenfeld cooperated with colleague Karl Jacob Jucker on various designs, including the well-known Wagenfeld Lampe and the Moka Machine espresso maker. Wagenfeld was greatly influenced by the modernist aesthetics fostered at the Bauhaus, and regardless of harsh criticism from his friends became one of the school’s most winning genius.

His studies at the Bauhaus finished, Wagenfeld went on to work with some firms and factoriesm counting the Lausitzer Glassworks plant, the Glaswerk Schott & Gen., Braun, and the kitchenware manufacture WMF. Wagenfeld also teached at the Bauhaus school and at the Berlin Berlin Staatliche Kunsthochschule in 1931. When World War II tooked place, Wagenfeld was among the some who turned down to run away war-torn Germany, and was in the long run sent to the Eastern front and jailed at a Soviet prisoner-of-war camp. Wagenfeld was freed after the war, and created his own creation studio, the Werkstatt Wagenfeld, which he directed until 1978. By the 1980s, Wagenfeld worked numerous of his creations, of which included the Wagenfeld Lampe, so that they can be mass-produced more competently.

Wagenfeld remains teaching and creating designs until his death in May 1990. At present, his heritage continues to live on through creations of the Wagenfeld Lampe and his other designs that are still being produed today.