Luc Donckerwolke

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Lamborghini Gallardo Superleggera

Luc Donckerwolke (born June 1965 in Lima , Peru ) is a Belgian automobile designer who worked for the Volkswagen Group from 1992 to 2015 . Starting in 2016, he has been chief designer at Genesis Motors and Hyundai-Kia Automotive .

Life

Luc Donckerwolke studied industrial engineering in Brussels and transportation design in Vevey (Switzerland).

He started as a designer at Peugeot in 1990 and moved to Audi -Design in 1992 , where he designed the Audi A4 Avant , Audi A2 and the Audi R8 Le Mans . In 1994 he moved to the Škoda Design Center in the Czech Republic , where he designed the Skoda Octavia and Skoda Fabia , before returning to Audi in 1996.

From 1998 Donckerwolke was Head of Design at Lamborghini . He received the red dot design award for his work on Lamborghini Murciélago , Lamborghini Murciélago Roadster and Lamborghini Gallardo .

In 2005 Donckerwolke was appointed Head of Design at Seat , then in 2011 Head of Advanced Design in the Volkswagen Group.

Since September 2012 he was Director of Design at Bentley . In June 2015 he gave up the post for private reasons; his successor is Stefan Sielaff .

Luc Donckerwolke has been chief designer at Hyundai since January 2016. There he developed the Hyundai Kona , for example . In April 2020, the separation from Hyundai was announced.

Individual evidence

  1. a b c There is only emotion. In: derStandard.at. August 2, 2005, accessed on May 26, 2012 (interview with Luc Donckerwolke).
  2. a b c Luc Donckerwolke replaces van Braeckel. New Bentley design boss. (No longer available online.) In: auto-motor-und-sport.de. September 13, 2012, archived from the original on September 16, 2012 ; Retrieved October 7, 2012 . 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.auto-motor-und-sport.de
  3. Lamborghini designer switches to Seat. red dot GmbH & Co. KG, July 22, 2005, accessed on May 26, 2012 .
  4. Stefan Sielaff new head of Bentley design. Car Magazine UK, June 4th 2015, accessed June 5th 2015 . In November 2015, he was appointed Head of Design for Hyundai's Genesis Luxury Division with effect from February 2016.