Group aerobatics
The aerobatic architecture and designer group was founded in 1980 by Heiko Bartels (* 1947 , † February 3, 2014 ), Hardy Fischer (* 1949 ), Harald Hullmann (* 1946 ) and Charly Hüskes (* 1944 ) in Düsseldorf .
Fischer and Hullmann worked for Rodolfo Bonetto in Milan from 1978 to 1979 and as design consultants for Fiat . In 1989, Hullmann was appointed professor of design at the Saar College of Fine Arts , Hardy Fischer in 1993 as professor of industrial design at the Kunsthochschule Kassel and Bartels in 1993 as the founding dean of the faculty for product design at Bauhaus University Weimar.
The group combined ideas from the punk revolt of the 80s with postmodern theses of Italian anti-design . Products should primarily be "representations of symbolic content and pictorial themes" and not primarily "function-mapping containers". The group implemented their ideas in numerous exhibitions (such as " New German Design ", 1983). In her project "Kulissenmöbel" (1987), for example, color slides of furniture from all eras were projected onto cardboard boxes or walls in order to emphasize the arbitrariness of the shape. Concrete furniture designs were created for Alessi , Anthologie Quartett and Classicon , among others .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Obituary on Red Dot Online
- ↑ Harald Hullmann on the group aerobatics and the new German design http://kultur-in-krefeld.de/kulturhistorie/design/gruppe-kunstflug-3/
- ↑ Siegfried Gronert on Harald Hullmann and the aerobatic group http://www.kuenstlerlexikonsaar.de/artikel/-/hullmann-harald/