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Nathan Lerner and Hin Bredendieck, chair, ca.1949

Hin Bredendieck (born April 9, 1904 in Aurich ; died September 1, 1995 in Roswell, Georgia ) was a German industrial designer and educator.

Life

Hin Bredendieck did an apprenticeship as a carpenter in Aurich and worked in a furniture factory in Leer . In 1924 he studied at the arts and crafts school in Stuttgart and in 1925 at the arts and crafts school in Hamburg. From 1927 to 1930 Bredendieck was a student at the Bauhaus Dessau , first in Josef Albers ' preliminary course , then in the metal workshop at the Bauhaus . Together with Marianne Brandt and Hermann Gautel , he developed designs for lamps that were made by the company Körting & Mathiesen (Kandem). In 1930/31 Bredendieck worked in the studios of László Moholy-Nagy and Herbert Bayer , in 1937 he emigrated to the USA and there took over the management of the basic design workshop and the wood and metal workshop at the New Bauhaus Chicago . As the founding director of the Institute for Industrial Design at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta , he became one of the most influential communicators of Bauhaus ideas in America.

estate

The Hin Bredendieck estate is spread over three locations. Bredendieck already gave some objects to the Bauhaus archive during his lifetime . The "me 1002" work stool developed by Bredendieck together with Hermann Gautel (gift from Iwao Yamawaki) is also preserved here. A large part of the estate was posthumously transferred to the library of the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta . Another part of the estate is kept in the State Museum for Art and Cultural History Oldenburg .

literature

  • Josef Straßer: 50 Bauhaus icons that you should know . Munich: Prestel, 2009, p. 132f.
  • Gloria Köpnick , Rainer Stamm : Hin Bredendieck. Carpenter, Bauhaus worker, emigrant and professor of industrial design , in: Gloria Köpnick, Rainer Stamm (Ed.): Between Utopia and Adaptation. The Bauhaus in Oldenburg (exhibition catalog), Petersberg 2019, pp. 147–160.
  • Gloria Köpnick (Ed.): Hin Bredendieck. From Aurich to Atlanta , 280 pages, text: German / English, Hirmer Verlag, Munich 2020, ISBN 978-3-7774-3463-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Project Hin Bredendieck - From Aurich to Atlanta. Retrieved March 5, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Bredendieck, Hin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German industrial designer and educator
DATE OF BIRTH April 9, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Aurich
DATE OF DEATH September 1, 1995
Place of death Roswell (Georgia)