Friedrich Bundtzen

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Friedrich Bundtzen (born July 17, 1910 in Brühl ; † January 31, 1989 in Weißwasser / Oberlausitz ) was a German designer and glass designer. As a student of Wilhelm Wagenfeld, Friedrich Bundtzen was one of the most influential glass designers in the GDR, along with Brigitte Bundtzen, Margarete Jahny , Ilse Decho and Horst Michel .

Life

Friedrich Bundtzen was born on July 17, 1910 as the son of a master glassworker in Brühl in the Rhineland. After attending elementary school in Kamenz , Bundtzen began an apprenticeship as a draftsman and glass painter at Max Kray & Co. in Kamenz. After completing vocational school and an apprenticeship, he began a three-year journey through various glassworks in 1925 . In 1932 he took on his first permanent position as a glass designer in the Kamenz plant of the United Lusatian Glass Works . From 1938 he worked in the design and advertising department under the direction of Wilhelm Wagenfeld on the development of the diamond glass range.

His professional development was interrupted at the beginning of the Second World War when he was drafted into the Wehrmacht . After returning from captivity in 1946, he returned to the arts and crafts. In the fall of 1948 Wilhelm Wagenfeld appointed him to Berlin as an assistant . Here he began studying at the University of Fine Arts in Berlin-Wilmersdorf , which he - like the assistant position - had to give up after Wagenfeld moved to Stuttgart at the end of 1949.

From 1949 he worked as artistic director of the Association of Publicly Owned Enterprises Ostglas and tried to tie in with Wagenfeld's pre-war designs in terms of quality and art.

“The Wagenfeld glasses with the diamond symbol are still produced and sold in the state-owned company 'Oberlausitzer Glaswerke'. That which was beautiful and good had to be preserved because the quality in this work deteriorated seriously, both in terms of the shapes and the decorative design of the glasses. "

- Friedrich Bundtzen : form + Zweck , 1959, p. 31.

On 1 October 1950, he founded the workshop for glass design in white water, for which he engravers , grinders and glass painter, among others, Konrad day undertook Franz Haiplick, Fritz Heinzel, Fritz Wondrejz or Karl Bayer as a lecturer. After just one year, almost 100 new shapes were awarded the quality mark for handicrafts.

Artistically influenced by Wagenfeld, Bundtzen designed simple, mostly conical smoked glass vases, drinking glass and glass tableware series as well as pressed glasses with restrained decor, which were produced in series in the Weißwasser Bärenhütte glass factory, Ankerglas Bernsdorf and in VEB Lausitzer Glaswerke Weißwasser as well as models or small batches were produced in the glass design workshop. In 1954, together with the glass cutter Alfred Görner, he succeeded in creating the first (verifiable) copy of a Roman slide glass .

Friedrich Bundtzen was in close correspondence with Wilhelm Wagenfeld until 1971, during which the two designers intensively exchanged views on the development of the shape and decor as well as the quality of the glasses.

In addition to his design work, Friedrich Bundtzen worked as a lecturer and lecturer at the engineering school for glass technology in Niesky, at the Technical University of Dresden and from 1961 to 1988 at the University of Fine and Applied Arts in Berlin-Weißensee , which also awarded him the diploma in design in 1967 .

Friedrich Bundtzen's glass designs were shown regularly at art exhibitions in the GDR and, since 1952, at the Leipzig Trade Fair and published in magazines such as Form + Zweck , Schöne Glas , Kultur im Heim and Sybille .

Friedrich Bundtzen was a member of the expert committee of the German Office for Material and Goods Testing (DAMW) from 1951 to 1963 , since 1965 of the Council for Design, the Council for Industrial Forms of the GDR, the central board of the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR , head of the working group for industrial glass and since 1968 artistic director of the VVB household glass and packaging glass . When he took on this task, he had to give up his development work in the design workshop.

Today his glasses are shown in various applied arts museums, including the Weißwasser Glass Museum , the Neue Sammlung in the Munich Pinakothek der Moderne , the Grassimuseum in Leipzig , the Dresden Museum of Applied Arts , the Schwerin State Museum and the Berlin Museum of Decorative Arts .

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1962 Gute Industrieform , Moscow and Beijing
  • 1962 V. German Art Exhibition , Dresden
  • 1965 Ars Vitraria , Berlin
  • 1967 Industrial form and handicrafts , Pillnitz Castle
  • 1968 GDR form , Leipzig and Weimar
  • 1969 20 years of glass design in the GDR , Pillnitz Castle
  • 1990 Glas Design 1950 to 1975 , Branitz

Awards (selection)

His glass designs have been presented at various exhibitions and fairs, including the gold medal at the Leipzig trade fair, several prizes at the art exhibition in Ljubljana, gold medals from the Ministry of Culture, the award for excellent design from the Ministry of Light Industry and the Institute of Applied Arts and awarded several quality marks of the arts and crafts.

In 1980 Friedrich Bundtzen was awarded the Design Prize of the German Democratic Republic .

Works (selection)

  • Service No. 10000 , Weißwasser Bärenhütte glass factory (1950), Konrad Tag decor
  • Cup vase No. 0101 , workshop for glass design (1950)
  • Chalice service 10 002 , 10 004 with different cut decors, Weißwasser Bärenhütte glass factory (1950)
  • Bowl Oberweimar 0418/51 , VEB Oberlausitzer Glaswerke (1951), form: Wilhelm Wagenfeld; Decor: Friedrich Bundtzen
  • Vase 0134/52 , crystal glass with vertical hollow cut , Weißwasser Bärenhütte glass factory (1950)
  • Stem vases with engraved glassblower and horse (1952)
  • Stem vase 020/52 , workshop for glass design (1952)
  • Can 0117/53 , lead crystal with hollow-ground, glass factory White Water Bear Cottage (1953)
  • Vase 0194/53 , lead crystal with hollow cut, Weißwasser Bärenhütte glass factory (1953)
  • Colored glass vases , 311/54 , 317/54 , 337/54 , workshop for glass design (1954)
  • Colored glass vase with air bubbles 0368/55 , workshop for glass design (1955)
  • Colored glass bowls 4403/56 , 4404/56 , 4406/56 , VEB Oberlausitzer Glaswerke (1956), form: Wilhelm Wagenfeld; Decor: Friedrich Bundtzen
  • Pressed glass series Anker , VEB Ankerglas Bernsdorf (1956)
  • Set of bowls Carla , pressed glass, VEB Ankerglas Bernsdorf (1958)
  • Cocktail cup No. 155 , crystal glass, Weißwasser Bärenhütte glass factory (1958)
  • Set of bowls Dominante , pressed glass, VEB Ankerglas Bernsdorf (1958)
  • Goblet Series 1036/59 and 1037/59 , VEB Oberlausitzer Glaswerke, (1959/1960)
  • Wine bottle with lid and 6 cups 0279/59 and 0164/59 , VEB Oberlausitzer Glaswerke, (1959)
  • Cognac swivel Stehauf 043/61 , workshop for glass design (1961)
  • Cylinder vases 0395/61 , colored glass, workshop for glass design Weißwasser (1961)
  • Punch , Romanze , 4419/62 with 6 cups 2033/62 , VEB Oberlausitzer Glaswerke (1962)
  • Jug with beakers, 0298/63 , Rietschen glass factory (1963)
  • Chalice service 061/64 , workshop for glass design (1964)
  • Pressed glass series Bernsdorf , VEB Ankerglas Bernsdorf, (1964)
  • Chalice service brilliant , VEB Oberlausitzer Glaswerke (1965)
  • Biscuit tin and ashtray, colored glass red, 0412/65 and 0413/65 , workshop for glass design Weißwasser (1965)
  • Chalices Mon Cherie, 078/66 , VEB Oberlausitzer Glaswerke (1966)
  • Stem vases 0513/67 - No. 0516/67 , colored glass, VEB Oberlausitzer Glaswerke (1967)
  • Ice bowl set with goblet base 0236/68 , VEB Oberlausitzer Glaswerke (1968)

Writings by Friedrich Bundtzen

  • 20 years of glass design in the GDR . Exhibition catalog, Pillnitz Castle, Museum of Arts and Crafts, Dresden State Art Collections, Dresden 1969.
  • Glass design 1950 to 1975 . Exhibition catalog, Branitz 1990

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Günter Höhne: DDR Design , Komet, Cologne 2006, ISBN 978-3-89836-587-1 , p. 136f
  2. ↑ Walter Scheiffele: The Troubles of the Plains - A Dialogue between Friedrich Bundtzen and Wilhelm Wagenfeld . In: Günter Höhne (Ed.): The divided form - German-German design affairs 1949–1989 . Torch bearer, Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-7716-4421-5 , p. 108.
  3. ^ Friedrich Bundtzen: 20 years of glass design in the GDR . Exhibition catalog, Pillnitz Castle, Museum of Arts and Crafts, Dresden State Art Collections, Dresden 1969, p. 17.
  4. ↑ Walter Scheiffele: The Troubles of the Plains - A Dialogue between Friedrich Bundtzen and Wilhelm Wagenfeld . In: Günter Höhne (Ed.): The divided form - German-German design affairs 1949–1989 . Torch bearer, Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-7716-4421-5 , p. 109.
  5. ↑ pressglas-korrespondenz.de: Gisela Haase - On the history of Lausitzer Glas , accessed on October 27, 2016
  6. ↑ Walter Scheiffele: The Troubles of the Plains - A Dialogue between Friedrich Bundtzen and Wilhelm Wagenfeld . In: Günter Höhne (Ed.): The divided form - German-German design affairs 1949–1989 . Torch bearer, Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-7716-4421-5 , p. 110.
  7. ↑ Walter Scheiffele: The Troubles of the Plains - A Dialogue between Friedrich Bundtzen and Wilhelm Wagenfeld . In: Günter Höhne (Ed.): The divided form - German-German design affairs 1949–1989 . Torch bearer, Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-7716-4421-5 , p. 110.
  8. ↑ Walter Scheiffele: "Your inhibiting functionaries are our merchants ..." - From the correspondence between Wilhelm Wagenfeld and Friedrich Bundtzen. In: Günter Höhne (Ed.): The divided form - German-German design affairs 1949–1989 . Fackelträger, Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-7716-4421-5 , pp. 117-131.
  9. ↑ Hans Dietrich Marschner: The glass designer Friedrich Bundtzen . In: The latest news from the Weißwasser Glass Museum . tape 7 . Weißwasser 2005, p. 3 f .
  10. ↑ Walter Scheiffele: The Troubles of the Plains - A Dialogue between Friedrich Bundtzen and Wilhelm Wagenfeld . In: Günter Höhne (Ed.): The divided form - German-German design affairs 1949–1989 . Torch bearer, Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-7716-4421-5 , p. 115
  11. ↑ NZZ.ch: The United Form, September 10, 2014 , accessed on October 27, 2016

literature

  • Walter Funkat: Crafts in the German Democratic Republic , Verlag der Nation, Berlin 1970.
  • Walter Scheiffele: The Troubles of the Plains - A Dialogue between Friedrich Bundtzen and Wilhelm Wagenfeld . In: Günter Höhne (Ed.): The divided form - German-German design affairs 1949–1989 . Fackelträger, Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-7716-4421-5 , pp. 108-116.
  • Walter Scheiffele: "Your inhibiting functionaries are our merchants ..." - From the correspondence between Wilhelm Wagenfeld and Friedrich Bundtzen. In: Günter Höhne (Ed.): The divided form - German-German design affairs 1949–1989 . Fackelträger, Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-7716-4421-5 , pp. 117-131.

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personal data
SURNAME Bundtzen, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German form designer and glass designer
DATE OF BIRTH July 17, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Bruehl
DATE OF DEATH January 31, 1989
Place of death Weißwasser / Upper Lusatia