Heinz H. Engler

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The "B1100", exhibited in the Braith Mali Museum in Biberach an der Riss

Heinz H. Engler (born June 5, 1928 in Biberach an der Riss ; † August 22, 1986 there ) was a German designer.

In the early 1960s, Engler designed the most famous system tableware in the catering industry: the "System B1100". Since 1962 it has been manufactured by the porcelain factory Gebr. Bauscher in Weiden in the Upper Palatinate .

B1100 combines conventional properties such as increased break resistance and edge impact resistance with a clear, attractive design . To this day, it is the best-selling hotel chinaware on the world market. The obvious benefits, namely space-saving stackability, robust design and compact shapes, ensured that this series is used worldwide in hotels, restaurants, dining cars, canteens , in hospitals and also on passenger ships .

Life

Heinz H. Engler was born in Biberach an der Riss in 1928. 1944-1945 he was an air force helper in Danzig. In 1949 he completed his Abitur at the Wieland grammar school in Biberach and then learned the pottery trade in the Upper Swabian pottery workshop in his hometown. 1950–52 he passed his diploma at the higher technical school for ceramics in Höhr-Grenzhausen . 1952–63 he ran the Upper Swabian pottery workshop together with his future wife Margarethe Frauer. After working as a designer at the ceramics company Arabia in Helsinki from 1956–57, he opened his own studio for model development in Biberach. From 1958 to 1968 he worked out hollow glass designs for the Wiesenthalhütte in Schwäbisch Gmünd . In 1967 he was appointed to the chair for ceramic product design at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts . From 1972 he worked both as chief designer of the porcelain factory Gebr. Bauscher in Weiden in the Upper Palatinate , and as a designer for the Stölzle Glasindustrie in Vienna .

In 1977 Engler was offered a professorship at the University of Applied Arts Vienna , and in 1981 at the University of Fine Arts Hamburg to the chair of industrial design.

When he died in Biberach in 1986, the obituary in the Schwäbische Zeitung read just like his dishes: "Engler is dead."

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  1. ↑ Helmut Ricke (Ed.): Wiesenthalhütte. Design in glass 1957-1989. Deutscher Kunstverlag 2007, ISBN 978-3422067646
personal data
SURNAME Engler, Heinz H.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German designer of hotel system tableware
DATE OF BIRTH June 5, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Biberach an der Riss
DATE OF DEATH August 22, 1986
Place of death Biberach an der Riss