Johannes Dinnebier

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Johannes Dinnebier (born February 21, 1927 in Herrnskretschen , Czechoslovak Republic ) is a German lighting designer .

Life

Dinnebier's grandmother ran a pension called “Zum Weisse Rössl” with his divorced mother and aunt. He graduated from the Business Academy in Bohemia .

At the age of 17 he was drafted into the Eastern Front of World War II, after which he served in the disaster relief effort in Dresden . The grandmother fled to Kassel with her daughters ; Dinnebier initially stayed in Czechoslovakia, where he was briefly arrested. In 1945 he fled across the Elbe at night and met his family again in Kassel. Here they lived temporarily in the attic of a barn. Dinnebier picked cherries and apples that he sold. In summer he worked as a waiter on the island of Norderney , in winter in a hotel on the Zugspitze , and he also hired himself as a donkey driver and ski instructor. He learned the technical principles of tanning skins and making shoes. On a rubble plot of land in Kassel, he built a shop for his grandmother, for which the spatial artist Arnold Bode arranged for his son, an architect, to draw up the plans.

From 1952, Dinnebier developed 49 lighting concepts in Düsseldorf's Graf-Adolf-Straße in collaboration with architects such as Egon Eiermann . He made balls from beech wood , which he assembled into lamps and sold. He made other luminous objects from excess armaments. Here he met his wife Lisa, whom he married in 1954 and with whom he opened the lamp shop Licht im Raum in Düsseldorf . In 1962 he took part in the restoration of the building mill in Solingen ; the first property that the city of Solingen placed under monument protection . Here he founded the Dinnebier Licht company in 1965 .

In 1972 he established in Lüntenbeck of Wuppertal the planning office studio lighting design Dinnebier KG , the forerunner of today's Dinnebier Licht GmbH , where he and his team developed lighting solutions and luminous objects from planning to execution. Dinnebier implemented its lighting concepts at international locations, including Saudi Arabia and Pakistan. His projects included world exhibitions, airports and urban spaces as well as churches and artistic light objects, and he illuminated over 5,000 places in total. In addition to his planning office, he established a manufacture in Wuppertal for the production of his own series lights. The Düsseldorf store moved to Solingen in 2020.

Johannes Dinnebier is one of the avant-garde . He is known as “Germany's first lighting designer”. Since 1991 he has been the 500th member of the Association of Friends and Alumni of the Bergische Universität .

Dinnebier has five children; Antonia, Jan, Sonja, Jenny and Julia, some of whom continue to run the family business. Julia (Jule) Dinnebier and her husband Daniel Klages run the companies Licht im Raum , Dinnebier Licht and Lichtturm , which continue the areas of design lighting, lighting planning and the professional use of the Solingen light tower of the family business; Antonia Dinnebier is known as a landscape planner and author and has taken over the daily management of Lüntenbeck Castle with her sister Sonja. Jan Dinnebier has been employing a team of architects, lighting and product experts in his Berlin lighting company since 1998.

Work (selection)

Illuminated objects in Wuppertal:

  • 1975 - Light column on Kerstenplatz , inaugurated on November 8, 1975 (a similar light column, but with 5 reflectors and a height of 18 m, is in front of the cultural center in Wolfsburg , architect Alvar Aalto, Finland)
"Stage fright", Wuppertal

Supraregional projects:

  • 1958 - Participation in the world exhibition in Brussels Expo 58 .
  • 1961 - Illumination of the Commerzbank Düsseldorf .
  • 1967 - Illumination of the world exhibition in Montreal Expo 67 as well as the exhibition of own exhibits such as a 24 meter high stainless steel column.
Grand Foyer in Istanbul Ataturk Airport

  • Lichtbaum , Joachimstrasse in Hanover, 1987

  • Lichtbaum , Luisenstrasse in Hanover

  • Light tower , Lützowstrasse in Solingen-Gräfrath

  • Light column , Kerstenplatz in Wuppertal

Awards

  • Wuppertal City Marketing Prize , 2003
  • CREO Prize of the Society for Creativity, award for creative life's work by the Dinnebier team , together with Julia Dinnebier and son-in-law Daniel Klages, 2011.

literature

  • Ruth Meyer-Kahrweg : Monuments, fountains and sculptures in Wuppertal (biographies of the participating artists) . Born, Wuppertal 1991. ISBN 3-87093-058-6 . Pp. 36, 37.
  • Matthias Dohmen: Men in the valley . Ralf Liebe, Weilerswist 2018, ISBN 978-3-944566-83-2 . Chapter Johannes Dinnebier .

Web links

Commons : Johannes Dinnebier  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Large train station for the “Lord of Light” - Johannes Dinnebier turns 90 . ( Memento from September 8, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) In: Top-Magazin Wuppertal, 2017.
  2. ↑ a b c d Ruth Meyer-Kahrweg : Monuments, fountains and sculptures in Wuppertal (biographies of the artists involved) . Born, Wuppertal 1991. ISBN 3-87093-058-6 . Pp. 36, 37.
  3. ↑ 60 years of light in space . In: licht-im-raum.de, 2016.
  4. ↑ a b Martin Kuhna: Do what you can. In: K.West 7/2006.
  5. ↑ Marina Alice Mutz: Bausmühle - Eschbacher Mühle (Itter) . In: zeitspurensuche.de.
  6. ↑ 'Lichtgestalt' Dinnebier makes the world shine. In: The Wuppertal city newspaper from October 13, 2018.
  7. ^ Dinnebier Licht GmbH, history .
  8. ↑ Light and Space brochure from February 4, 2020.
  9. ↑ a b c Johannes Dinnebier . In: dinnebier-licht.de
  10. ↑ "With a little help from my friends" - a chronicle . In: Bergische Universität Wuppertal , 2012.
  11. ↑ Country Concept Antonia Dinnebier.
  12. ↑ Castle administration . In: schloss-luentenbeck.de
  13. ^ Studio Jan Dinnebier. In: lichtlicht.de
  14. ^ Daniel Neukirchen: Wuppertal suspension railway framework remains dark - light shares burned out. In: wz.de. Westdeutsche Zeitung, accessed on February 4, 2020 .
  15. ↑ Wuppertal Business Prize 2014 . In: wuppertal-marketing.de, 2014.
  16. ^ Francina Herder: Award for creative life's work . In: Rheinische Post from December 12, 2011.
personal data
SURNAME Dinnebier, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lighting designer
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Herrnskretschen , Czechoslovak Republic