Hans Gugelot

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Hans Gugelot (born April 1, 1920 in Makassar on Celebes ; † September 10, 1965 in Ulm ) was a German architect, engineer and designer of Dutch descent.

Life

He was born in Makassar on Celebes, an island of the former Dutch colonies in Southeast Asia (Indonesia). Growing up in Switzerland, the son of a doctor studied architecture in Lausanne and Zurich. He began his studies at the engineering school in Lausanne and later switched to the ETH Zurich for architecture and then worked as a freelance architect in various offices. Among other things, with the architect and designer Max Bill , he married in 1947 and started his own business in 1950. Hans Gugelot died in 1965 as a result of a heart attack.

Work as a designer

The Braun "Sixtant" from 1962

Hans Gugelot belongs to the series of designers who were immigrants - such as Henry van de Velde , Marcel Breuer and Peter Ghyczy  - who found their work center in Germany and who in this way have had a strong influence on German and international design.

In 1950 Hans Gugelot founded his own office and began developing the "M 125" furniture system, a furniture element system that enables any number of cabinet types to be created by assembling prefabricated side parts such as floors, back walls, doors and shelves put them together and rebuild them afterwards as required. During this time he was also a freelancer in Zurich housing construction. From 1954 until his untimely death in 1965 he was a lecturer at the Ulm School of Design (HfG), the first director of which was Max Bill. During this time he designed various electrical appliances for Max Braun oHG , such as the Phonosuper SK 4 radio / record player combination from 1956 (together with Dieter Rams ), the “PK-G” music chest and the “Sixtant 1” electric razor from 1962 ( with Gerd Alfred Müller ). In 1956 he designed a rollable television set for Telefunken (with Helmut Müller-Kühn).

In 1958 the pedagogically necessary separation of teaching and development led to the establishment of an independent development group at the HfG-Ulm, which he led. From 1960 to 1961 he was also a member of the Board of Directors of the HfG and was twice visiting professor (1961 and 1965) at the National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad, India. In 1962 he founded the Institute for Product Development and Design in Neu-Ulm . V.

He is considered to be one of the key figures of the “Second Modernism” in German product design, in which the rational principles, as they were defined at the Bauhaus in the 1920s, were transferred to the new product world and developed further. The collaboration with the electrical appliance manufacturer Braun is a good example of this . This, together with the work of Otl Aicher , shaped the overall appearance of Braun, one of the early consistent examples of a uniform visual company appearance (now called corporate design), which was congenially implemented at Braun by advertising manager Wolfgang Schmittel up until the 1980s. Gugelot developed a completely new, pioneering design culture for Braun, from which radios, razors, flash and kitchen appliances emerged and which had a lasting effect on design, first in Germany and then worldwide.

Systematics, function and technical innovations were always in the foreground in his developments. Gugelot saw design as an intellectual and moral issue that had nothing to do with taste. At the beginning of the sixties he founded a design studio, from which pioneering designs emerged, such as the Carousel slide projector (for Kodak), the redesign of the Hamburg S-Bahn and the modular and stackable plastic beer crate.

In 1964, his works were shown at documenta III in Kassel , in the Industrial Design department that was set up for the first time .

Works (selection)

Sideboard of the furniture system M125
  • 1950/1956, furniture system "M125". System furniture, was produced largely unchanged from 1957 to 1988.
  • 1954, Ulm stool (Max Bill, Hans Gugelot, Paul Hildinger). Was designed to furnish the newly founded Ulm School of Design (hfg). The stool is suitable for sitting, as a shelf element, side table or as a stepladder.
  • 1954 bed construction "GB 1085" ( G ugelot- B ett). Substructure for foam rubber mattresses, is still produced today.
  • 1954, play furniture system for children. Combinable play and furniture system, consisting of open cubes, benches and boards. Awards Spiel-Gut, Ulm, Rosenthal-Studio-Preis, Bundespreis Gute Form.
  • 1955, Braun music chest model "PK-G".
  • 1955, Braun component system: radio “G 11”, record player “G 12”, TV set “TV GG 11”.
  • 1956, Phonosuper SK 4 radio-record player combination (Hans Gugelot, Dieter Rams). The device, known by the nickname “Snow White's Coffin”, is exhibited in the Museum Of Modern Art, New York and in the Center Georges Pompidou, Paris as a milestone in design.
  • 1956, radio-turntable combination "Studio 1" (Hans Gugelot, Herbert Lindinger) for Braun .
  • 1959–1962, subway, Hamburg (Hans Gugelot, Herbert Lindinger, Helmut Müller-Kühn). Advice and design of the new double multiple units for Hamburger Hochbahn AG.
  • 1961, Braun electric shaver "Sixtant 1".
  • 1962, film camera "Movex auto-8" for Agfa-Gevaert in Munich.
  • 1963, Kodak slide projector "Carousel". The projector was manufactured largely unchanged for more than twenty years.
  • 1963, dynamo flashlight "DT 1" for Braun AG.
  • 1964, folding cupboard wall (Hans Gugelot with the gugelot institute). A modular cabinet system. 1966 Rosenthal Studio Prize, 1973 Federal Prize “Gute Form”.
  • 1965, bottle crate (Hans Gugelot with the gugelot institute). On behalf of Alexander Schoeller & Co. in Göttingen.
  • 1963–67, sandwich floor assembly for automobile construction (Hans Gugelot with the gugelot institute).

literature

  • Hans Wichman (Ed.): System design. Pioneer Hans Gugelot 1920–1965. Munich 1984
  • Ulm School of Design (ed.): Design cannot be taught at all. Hans Gugelot and his students. Ulm 1990
  • Bernd Polster : Brown. 50 years of product innovations. Cologne 2005
  • Jo Klatt, Günter Staeffler (ed.): Braun + Design Collection. 40 years of Braun Design from 1955 to 1995 . Hamburg 1995
  • In the workshop style . In: Der Spiegel . No. 37 , 1955 ( online ).
  • Hans Gugelot. The architecture of the design. HfG-Archiv Ulm, Christiane Wachsmann (Ed.), Verlag avedition Stuttgart 2020, ISBN 978-3899863307 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Polster, Bernd, 1952-: Braun: 50 years of product innovations . DuMont Literature and Art Verlag, Cologne 2005, ISBN 3-8321-7364-1 .
personal data
SURNAME Gugelot, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German product designer
DATE OF BIRTH April 1, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Macassar
DATE OF DEATH September 10, 1965
Place of death Ulm