Helmut Magg

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Helmut Magg (born January 31, 1927 in Munich ; † August 3, 2013 ) was a German architect , draftsman and painter .

Career

Magg completed an apprenticeship as a carpenter from 1941 to 1944. After the end of the Second World War, he studied interior design from 1946 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich under Josef Hillerbrand . From 1952 he worked as a freelancer.

He created furniture designs for WK and the Deutsche Werkstätten as well as interior fittings for private and public buildings as well as wallpaper and textile designs. In 1953 Magg devoted himself to the further development of the furniture program Die Growing Wohnung, which Bruno Paul had designed in 1934 for the Deutsche Werkstätten. In 1957, on behalf of the Bavarian State Ministry for Education and Culture, he developed wicker furniture for the college for basket weaving in Lichtenfels . In 1973, Magg received the Federal “Good Form” award for the “4500” sliding door cabinet . From 1981 to 1993 he was a lecturer, later professor for interior architecture and furniture design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg.

Exhibitions

literature

  • Helmut Magg: Magg, Helmut. Exhibition interior design class Professor Helmut Magg. 1981-1992. Academy of visual art. Nuremberg, 1992.
  • Various: Master builder 12/1953. Callwey Munich, 1953.
  • Gerd Hatje : Möbel - So Wohnen: Volume 9. Verlag Gerd Hatje Stuttgart, 1969.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Helmut Magg obituary in: Die Süddeutsche
  2. ^ A b Biographical data of Helmut Magg in: "Between Blümchen and Picasso": Textildesign of the fifties in West Germany , Jutta Beder, LIT Verlag Münster, 2002, pages 78–79
  3. ↑ Monique Miggelbrink: Television and living culture: To the fortune of television sets in the FRG in the 1950s and 1960s . transcript Verlag, 2018, ISBN 978-3-8394-4253-1 ( google.de [accessed on September 26, 2019]).
  4. ↑ a b c Hanna Elisabeth Koch: "Today beauty has a new meaning" - On the West German design of the 1950s using the example of the wallpaper industry . Ed .: Philosophical Faculty of the Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg i. Br. Freiburg January 16, 2016, p. 350 ( uni-freiburg.de ).
  5. ^ Biographical data from Helmut Magg in: Yearbook for Franconian State Research , Volume 59, Degener, 1999, page 204
personal data
SURNAME Magg, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect, draftsman and painter
DATE OF BIRTH January 31, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH 3rd August 2013