Hermann August Weizenegger

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Hermann August Weizenegger

Hermann August Weizenegger (* 1963 in Kempten (Allgäu) ) is a German industrial designer . Since 2004 he has been professor for industrial design at the Potsdam University of Applied Sciences . He has been working independently since 1993, and has been running his own studio since 2009.

Career

After completing an apprenticeship as a textile retailer, Weizenegger studied industrial design with Hans Roericht at the Berlin University of the Arts from 1987 to 1992 . He then worked for a year as a freelancer at Roericht Product Development in Ulm . In 1993 he founded the Vogt and Weizenegger office in Berlin with Oliver Vogt . This is where the Sinterchair , which is represented in several collections, such as the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein, the Neue Sammlung in Munich , the Marta Herford and the Palais Schönborn in Vienna was created. In 2018 the chair was also included in the collection of the Vitra Design Museum as a miniature. Another well-known project is the DIM - The Imaginary Manufactory, which they curated in collaboration with the Berlin asylum for the blind. Here new products were created with numerous designers such as Konstantin Grcic , Matali Crasset , Marti Guixé and Stephen Burks . The office dissolved after 16 years.

Weizenegger is one of the founding members of Designmai (2003–2007), the platform for Berlin design, in whose content orientation and organization he was significantly involved for five years. He is also co-founder of the German Design Graduates Initiative with Professor Ineke Hans ( UDK Berlin ) and Professor Mark Braun ( HBKsaar ) in 2019.

His atelier HAW is represented thematically with artistic projects in exhibitions, with Digital Couture (2009) in the Appel Design Gallery as well as in group exhibitions such as Vase vers Vases (2009) in the design gallery Helmrinderknecht in Berlin, Nullpunkt (2009) in Marta Herford, in the museum for applied arts Cologne in Cologne with Isn't it romantic? (2012). In addition to product design, Weizenegger also worked on interdisciplinary projects such as the robot performance Valse Automatique , which was performed in the MADE art space (2010).

One of Weizenegger's first public installations in the same year was the Felsenland project for the Berghain techno club in Berlin . He caused a stir and irritation with the Hotel Dresden project , in which he also worked in 2010 together with manufacturers on the reconstruction of an Art Nouveau inventory that was shown in the rooms of the Berlin art gallery Haubrokshows . In addition to the topic of narration, his studio work dealt with the question of sustainable and subversive series production, as in the case of the Strangeness of Seeing project , an extensive fashion collection for women and men. In 2013 the second narrative collection The Prince of Amundo was created , which includes cut crystal glass objects from the Theresienthal glass factory and silk carpets from Rug Star.

In summer 2015 he staged the exhibition The False Flower for the Dresden Museum of Applied Arts in Pillnitz Castle . In 2017, in collaboration with Sandra Pravica, he published the book Design Kosmos , a collection of his first ten projects.

In 2011, Weizenegger curated the Black Box prototype show at the Qubique trade fair in Berlin. He was also a member of the jury for the Design Recycling Prize and as a curator, among others, the Smart Future Mind Award, the city ​​work of Vienna Designweek , the DMY Award 2014 and the I-love-Design-Award 2016. In 2018 he was a jury member at Handwerk + Form im Werkraum Bregenzerwald, Austria.

The glass results from Weizenegger's two-year collaboration with the Theresienthal glass manufacturer were awarded the 1st Prize for Applied Art 2013 for outstanding achievements on the subject of glass at the Zeughausmesse Berlin . Weizenegger was nominated for the Best of German Interior Design by the German Design Council in 2017 .

Atelier HAW has been working increasingly on series products for manufacturers since 2016. Numerous ceramic vessels, seating sets as well as bathroom furniture and wall tile collections were created here.

Exhibitions (selection)

  • Design Kosmos - Director's House , Museum for Art, Crafts and Design, Berlin 2017
  • The false flower - Kunstgewerbemuseum Dresden , Pillnitz Castle, Dresden 2015
  • Kosmos - Limited Edition Design Gallery, Hamburg 2014
  • The Prince of Amundo - Quartier 206 , Berlin 2013
  • Strange things to see - Quartier 206 , Berlin 2013
  • Hotel Dresden - Houbrokshows, Berlin 2010
  • Felsenland - Berghain , Berlin 2010
  • Valse Automatique - Made, Berlin 2010
  • V + W Design Matrix - MARTa Herford , Herford 2006
  • Berlin Flag Update - Designmai, Rotes Rathaus , Berlin 2003
  • Design Berlin! - Designmai, Vitra Design Museum Berlin, 2003
  • DIM - 40th Salone Internationale del Mobile Milano, Galleria Massimo di Carlo, Milan , 2001
  • DIM - 17th Int. Kortrijk Biennial , Kortrijk , 2000
  • Children of Berlin - MoMA PS1 , New York , 1999
  • The Imaginary Manufactory - Trico-Gallery, Tokyo , 1999
  • The Imaginary Manufactory - Berlin Asylum for the Blind, 1998
  • The Jekyll and Hide Cabinet, with Andrea Zittel - 1st Berlin Biennale, KW , Berlin 1998
  • Deliberately simple - Vitra Design Museum , Weil am Rhein 1998
  • Design and Identity - Museum of Decorative Arts and Design, Belgium 1997
  • Design and Identity. Aspects of European Design - Museum of Modern Art Louisiana, Louisiana, Denmark 1996
  • Infinity - Galerie Zwinger, Berlin 1996

Exhibition participation (HAW)

  • Glass jars "Aden" - Design from Berlin, Designmeile Berlin, Stilwerk , Berlin 2014
  • "Botanica" lamp - Gathering by Li Edelkoort, Design Museum Holon , Holon, Israel 2014
  • Installation "High tech spin around Theresienthal" - DMY / Refugium Berlin, Berlin 2013
  • Carpet "Ocean" - Isn´t it romantic ?, Museum for Applied Arts Cologne , Cologne 2012
  • Glass collection "The Pagodas of Amundo" - Berlin 2.0, S. Bensimon Gallery , Paris, France 2013
  • “Botanica” luminaire - Edition 1.0 by Helmrinderknecht, Infinite Loop, Vienna Design Week , Vienna, Austria 2012
  • Installation “Olympia Utopia” - Instant Stories - Ventura Lambrate , Milan, Italy 2012
  • "Prototype Chair" - Black Box - Qubique Messe , Berlin 2011
  • “Erosio” chair - BioMorph, Vitra Design Museum , Weil am Rhein 2011
  • “Erosio, Chop” chair - neighbors, Kortrijk Design Bienale , Kortrijk, Belgium 2010
  • “Erosio, Chop” chair - neighbors, Saint Etienne Design Bienale, Saint Etienne, France 2010
  • Installation "Muse" - Nullpunkt, Marta Herford , Herford 2009
  • Vase "Chop" - Vase vs. Vases, Helmrinderknecht , Berlin 2009
  • Sculpture "Pump Virus" - Solebox, Reebok Gallery , Berlin, 2009

Design awards

  • Zeughaus Messe - Modern Craft - First Prize for Applied Art 2013 for excellent performance in the field of GLASS - Berlin 2013
  • German Design Award - Special Mention
  • Amundo Pagodas - Frankfurt, 2014
  • Red point for "high design quality" - Jungwerk furniture casters - Design Center North Rhine-Westphalia 2008
  • Interzum Award 2007 for "high product quality" - Jungwerk furniture castors - Cologne 2007
  • Red point for "high design quality" for Four Star - Design Center North Rhine-Westphalia 2002
  • IF Prize Hanover for the "going to the beach" collection from MÖVE, Hanover 2001
  • Design Plus for Sweetcase - Frankfurt 2001
  • Form for Pulp, Frankfurt 2000
  • Award for the best new product - New York Home Textile Show - Möve Badaccessoires - New York, USA 2000
  • IF Prize Industry Forum Design Pure Glass - Hanover 1999
  • Red point for "high design quality" for Pure Glass - Design Center North Rhine-Westphalia 1999
  • Red point for "high design quality" - Monobag - Design Center North Rhine-Westphalia 1999
  • Design Plus for Pure Glass, Frankfurt 1999
  • Red point for "high design quality" - Infinity, Design Center North Rhine-Westphalia 1996
  • Svedex door competition - 2nd prize, Munich 1996
  • Heinz Glas Flakon Competition - Special Prize, Berlin 1995
  • DDC grand jury - designers evaluate design, blueprint - 1994
  • Red point for "high design quality" - D-light, Design Center North Rhine-Westphalia 1994

Collections

Literature (publications)

  • Best Of German Interior Design - Distance Verlag, ISBN 978-3-954761-80-7 .
  • Design Kosmos - Sandra Pravica and Hermann August Weizenegger, self-published, ISBN 978-3-00-056622-6
  • Isn't it romantic? - by Petra Hesse and Tulga Beyerle, ISBN 978-3-86-335-305-6 .
  • V + W PRIVATE BOOK. ISBN 3-00-015966-5 .
  • V + W Design Matrix. Hantje Kantz, Ostfildern 2006, ISBN 978-3-7757-1813-4 .
  • Mateo Kries and Christoph Thun-Hohenstein (eds.): Hello Robot! Design between man and machine (exhibition catalog of the MAK and the Vitra Design Museum), Weil am Rhein 2017, ISBN 3-945852-10-2 .
  • Andrea Mehlhose and Martin Wellner (eds.): Modern Möbel, 150 years of design, hf ullmann, Potsdam 2009, ISBN 3-8480-0029-6 .
  • V + W Design Matrix: Marta Herford, Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2006, ISBN 3-7757-1813-3 .
  • Christian Wurster (ed.): V + W private book. A book about Vogt and Weizenegger. Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-00-015966-5 .
  • “Vogt, Oliver; Weizenegger, Hermann ”. In: Mel Byars: The Design Encyclopedia, The Museum of Modern Art, New York 2004, ISBN 0-87070-012-X .
  • Winfried Scheuer: Reading book for designers, Hohenheim-Verlag, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-89850-018-7 .
  • Marion Godau and Bernd Polster: Design Directory Germany, Pavilion, London 2000, ISBN 1-86205-333-2 .
  • Mel Byars. "Guerrillas in Our Midst: Oliver Vogt and Hermann", ID (magazine), January – February 2001
  • Georg C. Bertsch. "Vogt + Weizenegger". Domus (magazine) , No.793, May 1997

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Prof. Hermann Weizenegger , on fh-potsdam.de
  2. ↑ Hermann August Weizenegger , on hermannaugustweizenegger.de
  3. ↑ A chair in 20 hours , on tagesspiegel.de, accessed on May 14, 2019
  4. ↑ Chronology The history of the former “Städtische Blindenanstalt” , on dim-berlin.de
  5. ↑ Design (may): Vogt and Weizenegger , on /de-bug.de
  6. ↑ germandesigngraduates.com , on germandesigngraduates.com, accessed January 30, 2020
  7. ^ Nullpunkt Nieuwe German Gestaltung , on marta-herford.de
  8. ↑ Between poetry and provocation , on deutschlandfunkkultur.de, accessed on May 14, 2019
  9. ↑ Valse Automatique , at designplaygrounds.com, accessed May 14, 2019
  10. ↑ DER STORY-TELLER , in VUE Berlin, pp. 30 - 32, on vue-berlin.de, accessed on May 14, 2019
  11. ↑ THE PAGODAS OF AMUNDO , on theresienthal.de
  12. ↑ Domotex 2017 From alpine hay to future studies , on stylepark.com
  13. ↑ The wrong flower. A design fairy tale by Hermann August Weizenegger , on kunstgewerbemuseum.skd.museum
  14. ↑ storytellers on designreport.de
  15. ↑ 1st prize: Hermann August Weizenegger | Armory Fair for Applied Art | Modern craft. Retrieved June 3, 2019 .
  16. ^ Hermann August Weizenegger. Retrieved June 3, 2019 .
  17. ^ Hermann August Weizenegger D, on direktorenhaus.com
  18. ↑ The wrong flower. A design fairy tale by Hermann August Weizenegger , on kunstgewerbemuseum.skd.museum


personal data
SURNAME Weizenegger, Hermann August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German industrial designer
DATE OF BIRTH 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Kempten (Allgäu)