Günter Beltzig

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Günter Beltzig (* 1941 in Wuppertal ) is a German designer . He became known in the 1960s primarily for a new design of plastic furniture. He has been designing play equipment and adventure areas for children since 1977.

Training and work

Even as a teenager, Günter Beltzig learned to express himself through sketches and drawings. The left-handed and dyslexic was full of ideas and visions. Despite his desire to become an inventor, he initially decided to do an apprenticeship as a machine fitter.

After studying industrial design at the Werkkunstschule Wuppertal (Dipl. Design), he worked in the design department of Siemens AG in Munich from 1966 to 1970 . But between refrigerators and vacuum cleaners, Beltzig could hardly give free rein to his creativity.

In 1966 he founded the plastics company Beltzig Design together with his brothers and developed robust play furniture and equipment, interior fittings and unusual chairs for ten years. At this time, the Beltzig brothers developed joint projects with other well-known designers, such as the German Luigi Colani .

In 1968 Beltzig developed the “Floris” chair, which made the company famous in one fell swoop. Inspired by the upcoming moon landing, the “Floris” art furniture series was created. Financial success did not materialize in the 1970s, but today Beltzig's “Floris” can be found as a classic in the New York Art Museum and in many other European collections. The “Floris” chair has been produced again in a limited edition.

Since 2010 there has been a collaboration with Löffler GmbH in Reichenschwand , Germany. Günter Beltzig is now again intensively involved in the creation of new furniture. On the occasion of his 70th birthday, another design object from the 1970s, the "Pegasus" - a combination of desk and chair, was reissued in limited numbers.

After working as a freelance designer, Günter Beltzig found his place when he started working for various playground equipment companies. Since 1977 he has been advising Richter Spielgeräte GmbH in Frasdorf and developing adventure rather than playgrounds for them, which not only attract the “little ones” with their safety and ergonomics. Beltzig is one of the few who also deals with the conception of handicapped accessible play areas.

Teaching

Exhibitions

  • 2007 Spielkunst - art to play, underground gallery stop University of Munich
  • January 21, 2004 - March 15, 2004 Imperial Furniture Collection Vienna
  • December 14, 2002 - March 16, 2003 "Experiment 70: Design Visions", Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe
  • September 14, 2002 - November 3, 2002 Museum for Concrete Art Ingolstadt

literature

Important publications

  • Criteria for child-, youth- and family-friendly urban planning in the “Youth Welfare Framework Plan”, Ingolstadt 1999
  • Child and space, about growing into the world - "db", February 1996
  • The dream of a wilderness - "Child's World", February 1991
  • Maybe a start! Play equipment for the disabled - "Play Room", November / December 1988
  • We have to get our children out of the playground ghettos - “Consulting Engineers”, July / August 1981
  • Future living behavior - "DBZ", November 1980
  • Playground equipment - "DBZ", August 1976
  • The sandpit alone is not enough - "deutsche bauzeitung", July 1976
  • Playgrounds and their problems - "md", Sept. 1975

Books

  • "Guidelines for integrative playgrounds", Nuremberg 2003
  • "Spielgeräte ...", G.Agde, G.Beltzig, J.Richter, D.Settelmeier, DIN Beuth-Verlag 2001 translated into: French, Verlag Afnor 2002
  • “Children's Playgrounds”, Bauverlag, 1987, out of print, revised as: “The Playground Book”, Spiel-Raum-Verlag 1998 translated into: Ukrainian 1991, Polish 2001 “Ksiega Placow Zabaw”
  • "Experiment 70: Design Visions", Luigi Colani, Günter Beltzig, ed. By Almut Grunewald u. a .: Ed. Braus 2002, ISBN 3899040422

Book contributions

  • Playgrounds and spaces to play. G. Agde (DIN-Praxis-Beuth Verlag, Berlin 2008)
  • Buildings for children (Kohlhammer Verlag Stuttgart 2002)
  • Guarderias Diseno de Jardines de Infancia (Editorial G.Gill. SA, Barcelona 2001)
  • Kindergarten Architecture (Gingko Press inc. Corte Madera USA 2001)
  • My "Sixties" 68 Design and everyday culture (Dumont, exhibition catalog 1998)
  • Childlike, childish, child-friendly - is there a child's own aesthetic? (Kid Size, exhibition catalog, Vitra Museum 1997)

Game concepts and artwork recently

  • Z-mar, Portugal 2009
  • Play structure in the Odysseum, Cologne 2009
  • MonaMar, Monheim 2008
  • Caritas Kindergarten, Pforzheim 2008
  • Playmobil water channel game 2007
  • Playmobil Wild West 2006
  • Play labyrinth, Schönbrunn in Vienna 2005
  • Foundation for the Blind Institute, Würzburg 2005
  • Play in the Tree Alnwick Garden, England 2004
  • Spiel-Mal, Kiesspiel, Dortmund 2003
  • Fidenza Village, Play Area, Italy 2003
  • Water game in the children's realm, Deutsches Museum, Munich 2002
  • Ouwehands Dieren Park, amusement arcade, Holland 2002
  • Princess Diana Memorial Parc, Play Area, Kensington, London 2001
  • Play area in Livingston Park, Puerto Rico 2001
  • Play island, Thoiry Park, France 2000
  • Castle Plays Cape, Billund, Denmark 1998
  • Natural playground, Waging am See, 1997
  • New York City Hall of Science, Play Area, USA 1997
  • Lisbon Expo, Playground, Portugal 1997
  • Apulia Robinson Club, children's area, Italy 1993
  • Playground without play equipment, LAGA Pforzheim 1992
  • Legoland Billund

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Beltzig, Günter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German designer
DATE OF BIRTH 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Wuppertal