Axel Kufus

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Axel Kufus (born May 25, 1958 in Essen ) is a German product designer and university professor at the Berlin University of the Arts .

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After graduating from high school in 1977 at Petrinum Recklinghausen , Kufus completed an apprenticeship as a cabinet maker in Kempen , which he successfully completed in 1979. From 1979, Kufus worked for three years with Richard Mühlemeier in Bischofsheim / Rhön and received his master craftsman's certificate at the Bad Wildungen wood technical school in 1983 . After working with Ulrike Holthöfer for several years in Kassel, Düsseldorf and Berlin, he studied design at the Berlin University of the Arts from 1985 to 1987 . Between 1986 and 1994 he was a partner in the Crelle workshop in Berlin. There he conceived a "mainstay / free leg strategy" for the workshop, experimented with the simplest construction methods from semi-finished products and produced the furniture developments in series. From 1989 to 1993 he cooperated with Jasper Morrison and Andreas Brandolini under the label "Utilism International". In 1990 he founded the Werkstudio Berlin. In 1993 he was offered a position at the Bauhaus University Weimar , where he taught as a professor for product design until 2003.

Since 2004 he has been professor for drafting and developing in design at the University of the Arts in Berlin. He is the initiator of experimental cooperation formats on the Charlottenburg campus such as DesignReaktor, Schwarm-Labor and UdK-Kollisionen. From 2008 to 2012 he was part of the management team of the Graduate School for the Arts and Sciences at the UdK Berlin .

Kufus is married to Sibylle Jans-Kufus and has three children.

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  1. ↑ a b Profile of Prof. Axel Kufus. Graduate School for the Arts and Sciences at the UdK Berlin, accessed on January 22, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Richard Mühlemeier retrospective accompanied by lectures , online article by B4B Mainfranken from September 7, 2012; accessed: October 30, 2012
  3. ^ Cologne knockers. In: Design Lexicon International. Retrieved January 22, 2020 .
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SURNAME Kufus, Axel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German product designer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH May 25, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH eat