Ingo Klöcker
Ingo Klöcker (born October 25, 1937 in Stuttgart ) is a German engineer , product designer , artist and university professor.
Life
Klöcker's father was an arts and crafts teacher in Cologne , later an advertising consultant and finally editor of the Süddeutsche Zeitung. After graduating from high school in 1957, Ingo Klöcker studied mechanical engineering at the Technical University .
After completing his diploma thesis, which Klöcker did in the press shop at Daimler-Benz in Sindelfingen in the field of non-cutting forming technology, he studied product design at the Ulm School of Design from 1961 to 1962 under Thomas Maldonado, Hans Gugelot , and Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart and Otl Aicher and got to know Josef Albers and Max Bill , among others . In 1970 he studied figurative painting under Rudolf Szyszkowitz at the International Summer Academy for Fine Arts in Salzburg .
Professional background
Klöcker began his professional career as a designer of household machines at Braun in Frankfurt am Main . This was followed by activities as a constructor and designer at Audi , Rheinstahl and Vorwerk . At Vorwerk, he took over the management of the research and development department in 1975 and, as managing director, the overall technical management of Uvex in 1980 . From 1983 to 2002, Klöcker was a full-time professor for construction theory, materials technology, industrial design and representation techniques for precision engineers at the Georg-Simon-Ohm University in Nuremberg . Since 2003 he has been a visiting professor with the same area of responsibility.
In 1979 he was appointed honorary professor at the Technical University of Braunschweig , and in 1980 he received his doctorate in engineering. at the University of Hanover and in 1982 he was appointed full professor at the Georg-Simon-Ohm University in Nuremberg , where he was professor for construction, materials, and industrial design for more than 28 years.
Klöcker has also worked as a painter and sculptor since 1983 and as a writer since 2008. His sculpture Der Läufer is located on the premises of the Ohm University on Wollentorstrasse in Nuremberg.
Honors
- 1985 Honorary plaque of the VDI for the management of the committee (chairman) Industrial Design, the development of the guidelines VDI 2424 sheets 1 to 3 and committee member for the guidelines VDI 2221, 2222 and 2224 (methodology)
- 1992 First prize from the Rupert Gabler Foundation for the "Promotion of Art, Culture and Science" in Obergünzburg
Publications
- Steel and Form , Düsseldorf 1969
- Product design , Springer-Verlag, Berlin 1981. ISBN 978-3-5401-0597-8
- Material technology revision course , self-published in Fürth 1994
- Material pictures , catalog, Kulturbrücke Schwaben 1997
- Exhibition Ingo Klöcker , catalog, Masters' Houses Dessau Foundation 2006
- When Cain killed his brother Abel - and other stories , Shaker-Verlag Aachen 2006. ISBN 3-8322-5663-6
- Future workshop: Innovations, new ideas and ways , Shaker-Verlag Aachen 2009. ISBN 978-3-8322-8537-1
- What did Koslowski do? , Self-published in Fürth 2011
Web links
- Literature by and about Ingo Klöcker in the catalog of the German National Library
- Ingo Klöcker's website
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b press release from artnori
- ↑ Annual report of the Ohm University ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 9.9 MB)
- ↑ Press release from the Science Information Service on the art sculpture "Der Läufer"
- ↑ Brief report and vita on the occasion of the inauguration of the Flabeg column
- ↑ Medical journal for naturopathic treatment , 1992, issue 11, p. 854
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Kloecker, Ingo |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German engineer, product designer, artist and university lecturer |
DATE OF BIRTH | October 25, 1937 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Stuttgart |