Hermann Gautel

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Hermann Gautel (born September 10, 1905 in Oldenburg ; died 1945 near Königsberg ) was a German furniture designer and interior architect.

life and work

From 1927 to 1931 Gautel studied at the Bauhaus Dessau , first as a student with Josef Albers , Paul Klee , Wassily Kandinsky and Oskar Schlemmer . In 1929/30 he was employed by the metal workshop at the Bauhaus . In 1931 Mies van der Rohe attested that he had a great talent for designing furniture and lamps. Together with Hin Bredendieck , he designed the single-spring chair ME 1004 and the work stool ME 1002 in 1929/30 .

Together with Marianne Brandt , he created new types of lighting. With Karl Schwoon , Hans Martin Fricke and Hin Bredendieck , Gautel belonged to a group of Bauhaus members from East Friesland and the Oldenburger Land . Around 1933 he returned to Oldenburg, where he founded an innovative carpentry workshop that tried to spread the ideas of new design in the region. In 1934 an exhibition of his furniture designs took place in the Augusteum in Oldenburg . In 1937 he set up an exhibition room for airship travel in the State Museum Oldenburg .

The Landesmuseum Oldenburg is currently researching the history of the liberal and innovative Bauhaus concept using the exemplary curriculum vitae of Hermann Gautel as well as that of Hin Bredendieck, Hans Martin Fricke and Karl Schwoon . A symposium was held on November 2nd and 3rd, 2017 .

Posthumous exhibitions

From November 2009 to January 2010, works by Gautel were part of the exhibition Bauhaus 1919–1933: Workshops for Modernity at the Museum of Modern Art in New York . In 2014, graphics by Gautel were part of an exhibition in the Lower Saxony Chamber of Architects . The collection of the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation contains a deposit from Gautel and Korona Krause consisting of materials (class notes, textiles, documents, etc.) from the Bauhaus weaving mill and the weaving mill at Giebichenstein Castle .

Works

  • ME 1002 , tubular steel, lacquered plywood, 60.5 × 39.0 × 48.5 cm. New modification of the work stool: two curved steel tubes are screwed to the runners in the back, on top of which a saddle-shaped seat, the tubes converge towards the front to form the support, spread out below and offer the seated footrests.

literature

  • Josef Straßer: 50 Bauhaus icons that you should know . Munich: Prestel, 2009, p. 144
  • Gloria Köpnick : Hermann Gautel. Bauhausler, furniture designer and interior architect , in: Gloria Köpnick, Rainer Stamm (Hrsg.): Between utopia and adaptation. The Bauhaus in Oldenburg (exhibition catalog), Petersberg 2019, pp. 89–102.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Klaus Weber: The metal workshop at the Bauhaus . Exhibition in the Bauhaus Archive , Museum of Design, Berlin: February 9 - April 20, 1992. Kupfergraben Verlagsgesellschaft, 1992, ISBN 978-3-89181-405-5 , pp. 185, p. 316 ( limited preview ).
  2. ↑ Michael Siebenbrodt, Lutz Schobe: Bauhaus . Parkstone International, 2017, ISBN 978-1-85995-628-1 ( limited preview ).
  3. ↑ Research project: The Bauhaus in Oldenburg in the Landesmuseum 2017 ( Memento of the original from June 3, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.landesmuseum-ol.de
  4. ↑ Research project: the Bauhaus in Oldenburg ( Memento of the original from June 3, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. From: Landesmuseum Oldenburg , accessed on May 10, 2017  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.landesmuseum-ol.de
  5. ^ Hermann Gautel, German, 1905–1945; at Bauhaus 1927–30 In: Museum of Modern Art , accessed on May 10, 2017
  6. ↑ Bettina Maria Brosowsky: Treasure in the wooden box In: the daily newspaper May 16, 2014
  7. ↑ Legacies in the collection of the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation , accessed on May 10, 2017
  8. ↑ p. 22, MoMA exhibition catalog . Retrieved May 12, 2017.
  9. ^ Jeannine Fiedler, Peter Feierabend: Bauhaus. Ullmann, Potsdam 2007, ISBN 978-3-8331-4347-2 , p. 411.
personal data
SURNAME Gautel, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German furniture designer and interior designer
DATE OF BIRTH September 10, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Oldenburg
DATE OF DEATH 1945
Place of death near Koenigsberg