Günter Ssymmank

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Günter Ssymmank (born March 6, 1919 in Bautzen , † September 27, 2009 in Jork ) was a German architect and designer .

Life

Gravestone for Günter Ssymmank in the south-west cemetery Stahnsdorf
The "Sy 1" floor lamp
Detail flower head

As the son of the general director of the Bautzen wagon factory , Günter Ssymmank first completed an apprenticeship as a locksmith . In the Second World War he took part as a fighter pilot and wanted to study aircraft construction; a wish that could not be realized after the war. In the early 1950s he went to West Berlin and became a master student of the sculptor Gustav Seitz . At the same time he studied architecture at the TU Berlin . As Hans Scharoun's assistant (1955–1957), he was instrumental in setting up an institute for industrial design at the TU Berlin, which was set up in 1960 and which he took over in 1964. Until his retirement in 1983, Ssymmank stood with his institute for the interdisciplinary connection of technology, art and architecture.

After he was successful with stair constructions, he designed various lights in 1959 that are now considered design classics. His flower floor lamp “Sy 1” or “Ssymmank” with foldable and changeable flower petals made of colored or white polyamide and the Philharmonic lamp I designed for Scharoun's building of the Berlin Philharmonic and the Berlin State Library can now be found in the collections of the Museum of Modern Kind in New York .

After his retirement, Ssymmank lived in Northern Germany and worked on new designs well into old age. He found his final resting place in the south-west cemetery in Stahnsdorf .

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SURNAME Ssymmank, Günter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect, designer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Bautzen
DATE OF DEATH September 27, 2009
Place of death Jork