Alexander Neumeister

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Alexander Neumeister, 2012

Alexander Neumeister (born December 17, 1941 in Berlin ) is a German designer who specializes in technical design .

The rail vehicles he designed, including several series of the ICE , the Shinkansen and the Transrapid, became known to a wide audience .

Career

Neumeister lived in Wilhelmshaven and Stuttgart during his school days . His father worked in the fashion and film industries. At the age of 15, Alexander Neumeister did an exchange year in Boise , Idaho , where he lived with relatives. In 1962 he graduated from high school . This was followed by internships at the vehicle manufacturer Schenk , at Bosch and Möbel Behr . Plans to study at the Illinois Institute of Technology failed because of the high tuition fees.

Subsequently, from 1963 to 1968, Neumeister studied industrial design at the Ulm School of Design . Walter Zeischegg and Hans Gugelot were among his lecturers . In 1964 he created his first design work, in 1966 he won first prize at the international design competition of Carrozzeria Bertone . As part of his diploma thesis , Neumeister designed a modular off-road vehicle.

Afterwards Neumeister received offers from Audi , Mercedes and MBB . In the last semester of his studies, Neumeister started as a consultant at MBB. Among other things, he worked on the early concepts for high-speed rail traffic in Germany, including the high-speed express train study . He was released from work at MBB in 1968 and 1969 for a one-year DAAD study stay at the Tokyo University of Arts .

In 1970 he founded the design office Neumeister Design (since 2000 Neumeister & Partner , since 2006 N + P Industrial Design GmbH ) with a focus on new traffic systems, medical technology and data technology. Between 1976 and 1979 he was a lecturer in industrial design at the Munich University of Applied Sciences .

From 1983 to 1985 Neumeister was a board member of the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (ICSID), responsible for the Design and Third World portfolio. From 1985 to 1987 he was vice president of the organization.

In 1988 he founded the NCS Design Rio office in Rio de Janeiro with Ângela Carvalho and Celso Santos . According to the company, this was the first German-Brazilian design team. In 2003 he left the joint venture. At the end of January 2012, Neumeister handed over his office shares to his partners Christiane Bausback and Andreas Bergsträßer.

plant

InterCityExperimental (1985): The basic elements of the exterior design still shape the image of the ICE fleet today .
ICE 3 with the distinctive ICE design elements - streamlined muzzle, red and white belly band, continuous window band.
Shinkansen 500

The rail vehicles he designed are among the best-known works by Neumeister. Among other things, he designed test vehicles for the Transrapid . A cooperation with Hitachi that has been ongoing since 1990 resulted in the design of the Japanese high-speed train Shinkansen 500 as well as designs for express, regional and metro trains.

The ICE exterior design he developed is particularly well known in Germany. He was responsible for the design of the ICE forerunner InterCityExperimental and the ICE 3 and ICE T , while some of his suggestions have been implemented in other ICE generations. In 1982 he had received the first design order in the ICE area in the form of an order for design studies to design the intermediate car of the ICE forerunner train. The characteristic ICE features developed by him, a continuous ribbon of windows and streamlined front sections, were implemented in all five ICE series.

Neumeister also developed the design of regional trains for Deutsche Bahn such as the Bombardier Talent and Siemens Desiro as well as hotel trains and light rail vehicles. For the Munich public transport company he created in 1996 the design of new vehicles of the type MVG C of the Munich subway . He also designed the interiors of new trains on the Munich tram .

In addition, he designed numerous technical devices, including magnetic card readers, time recording terminals for companies, video conference systems, televisions and telephones. Another focus of his work is medical technology , for example lasers , dental devices, lithotripters and radiation devices .

The ships designed by Neumeister include the passenger ship MS 2000 (around 1988), which can accommodate around 1000 passengers and is sailing on Lakes Thun and Brienz . The Euregia ferry, designed by Neumeister, with a capacity of 700 passengers and a payload of 300 t, has been in use on Lake Constance between Friedrichshafen and Romanshorn since July 1998 .

Between 1975 and 1985, Neumeister and his divorced wife coordinated the Design for Developing Countries working group , which planned and organized design workshops in Indonesia and the Philippines .

Awards

Neumeister is the recipient of numerous national and international design awards.

In 1971 he won 1st place in the international design competition Tisch 80 in Hamburg, followed by 1st place in the Gesika office furniture competition in 1973. The InterCityExperimental , which he played a key role in, received the Brunel Award in 1987 , an international design award for rail vehicles and infrastructure named after the English engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel . In 1991 he received the Swiss Design Prize in the Products category , and in 1992 the Design Team of the Year award from the North Rhine-Westphalia Design Center . In 1998, the Eisa Award for the Fine Arts line from Grundig followed .

For the design of the Shinkansen 500 , Neumeister received the Grand Prize in 1999, along with other participants - the second-highest category of the annual Imperial Invention Prize awarded by the Japanese Institute of Invention and Innovation . For the first time, the prize was awarded to a foreigner. The design of the ICE T, like (later) that of the ICE 3, was awarded the Federal Product Design Prize. For the design of the Munich subway trains of the C series, built from 2000 , he received the International Design Prize Baden-Württemberg in 2001 .

In November 2011 he received the design award of the city of Munich, "for his unique and exemplary work in the field of industrial design". The design of the Munich subway series C2, co-developed by Neumeister, was awarded the Universal Design Award in February 2013 and the Red dot design award in July 2013 .

In the postage stamp block Design in Germany 1999 of the Deutsche Post he was represented with the Transrapid draft.

For 2015 Neumeister was awarded the European Railway Award .

Private life

Neumeister was married from 1969 to 1995 and has two daughters. He has lived in Munich since 1970 and spends around half of the year in Brazil. In the meantime (as of June 2011) he is married to a Brazilian.

See also

Web links

Commons : Alexander Neumeister  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

  • Adelia Borges, Bernhard E. Bürdek, Angela Carvalho, Kenji Ekuan, Morishige Hattori, Armin Scharf, Elke Trappschuh: Alexander Neumeister . Ed .: Alex Buck (=  designer monographs . No. 8 ). Verlag Form, Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 3-931317-52-8 .
  • Knuth Hornbogen: Ulm-Japan vibration. Alexander Neumeister on the design of the ICE . In: Volker Albus, Achim Heine (Ed.): Die Bahn (=  positions of brand culture ). tape 1 . Nicolaische Verlagsbuchhandlung GmbH, Berlin 2002, ISBN 978-3-87584-055-1 , p. 60–75 (text bilingual in German and English).
  • Ralf Roman Rossberg : Master of Forms . In: railway magazine . No. 1/2012 . Alba publication, January 2012, ISSN  0342-1902 , p. 39-41 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Borges, Bürdek, Carvalho, Ekuan, Hattori, Scharf, Trappschuh: Alexander Neumeister . Ed .: Alex Buck. 1999, p. 82 (biography).
  2. ↑ a b c Volker Albus, Achim Heine: Die Bahn. Brand culture positions . Nicolaische Verlagsbuchhandlung, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-87584-055-0 , p. 75.
  3. ↑ a b c d e A man comes to the train. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. No. 94, 1999, ISSN  0174-4917 , p. 59.
  4. ↑ a b c d e f Visit to… Alexander Neumeister . In: design report , issue 4/2011, pp. 42–47, ISSN  0932-3724 ( online  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and remove it then this note. ).@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.design-report.de  
  5. ↑ a b c d Borges, Bürdek, Carvalho, Ekuan, Hattori, Scharf, Trappschuh: Alexander Neumeister . Ed .: Alex Buck. 1999, p. 69 (Interview with Alex Neumeister: The more complex, the better.).
  6. ↑ a b Michael Krische: "An optimal compromise" . In: BahnExtra: 20 years of ICE . Issue 6, 2004, ISBN 3-89724-175-7 , pp. 48-52.
  7. ↑ Armin Scharf: The ICE 3 and the German Pendolino - PDF at ETH - e-periodica. In: raised ground floor. 1997, accessed November 8, 2019 .
  8. ↑ a b Ralf Roman Rossberg: Master of Forms. In: eisenbahn-magazin, 1/2012, p. 40.
  9. ↑ Clear start for the Jumbo on rails. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . No. 289, 1999, ISSN  0174-4917 , p. L3.
  10. ↑ The cradle of all wagons. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. No. 153, 2000, ISSN  0174-4917 , p. L3.
  11. ↑ Borges, Bürdek, Carvalho, Ekuan, Hattori, Scharf, Trappschuh: Alexander Neumeister . Ed .: Alex Buck. 1999, p. 86-105 .
  12. ↑ Borges, Bürdek, Carvalho, Ekuan, Hattori, Scharf, Trappschuh: Alexander Neumeister . Ed .: Alex Buck. 1999, p. 106-117 .
  13. ↑ In: Buck (1999), pp. 60-67.
  14. ↑ Armin Scharf: Transparency instead of steel masses . In: raised ground floor . 1996, No. 4, p. 26 f., Https://www.e-periodica.ch/digbib/view?pid=hoc-001:1996:9::364#364 PDF at e-periodica.ch
  15. ^ Announcement "Brunel Award" for the IC Experimental . In: Railway technical review . 36, No. 10, 1987, p. 616.
  16. ↑ Armin Scharf: Sprinter with a 15 m long nose . In: VDI news . No. 14, 1999, April 9, 1999, ISSN  0042-1758 , p. S3.
  17. ↑ Not yet in operation - already award-winning. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. No. 234, 2001, ISSN  0174-4917 , p. 50n.
  18. ^ Design award Munich to Neumeister | www.zwomp.de. January 27, 2012, accessed November 8, 2019 .
  19. ^ Siemens AG (ed.): Excellent subway from Siemens: Munich C2 train receives design prize . Press release from July 2, 2013 (similar version as PDF file online ; PDF; 181 kB).
  20. ↑ Michel catalog Germany . Schwaneberger Munich Publishing House, No. 2071
personal data
SURNAME Neumeister, Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German designer
DATE OF BIRTH December 17, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin