Lutz Rudolph

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Lutz Rudolph (born September 28, 1936 in Gera ; † March 7, 2011 in Berlin ) was a German designer .

Life

Rudolph was born as the son of the painter Hans Rudolph (1905-1993) and the saleswoman Margarete Hildegard Rudolph. He studied from 1955 to 1960 at the Berlin-Weißensee School of Art . He then worked at the Central Institute for Design in Berlin and was an aspirant at the art college. From 1968 to 2000 he worked as a freelance form and product designer in Berlin.

In collaboration with Clauss Dietel , he created products that are among the classics of GDR design, including the Heliradio devices and the Wartburg 353 .

Products

  • "Contrast" floor lamp, 1961
  • Poultry shears
  • "Moccadolly" coffee brewer

Exhibitions

  • "Barkas, Simson, Moccadolly", Gera, 2017

literature

  • Günter Höhne: The great lexicon of GDR design . Komet, Cologne [2008]. ISBN 978-3-89836-676-2
  • Dietmar Eisold (Ed.): Lexicon Artists in the GDR , Berlin 2010
  • Jens Kassner, Hein Köster (eds.): Clauss Dietel and Lutz Rudolph: Design is culture, full beard.communication, 2002, ISBN 978-3-935534-05-5
  • Kunstsammlung Gera (Ed.): Form and Function, exhibition catalog, Gera, 2017, ISBN 978-3-910051-62-1

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Matthias Zwarg: Beauty for a good cause . Ed .: Free Press. Freie Presse, Chemnitz October 7, 2017, p. 1 / culture .
  2. ↑ mdr.de: To see the work of designer Rudolph in Gera | MDR.DE. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on February 25, 2018 ; accessed on February 25, 2018 (German). 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.mdr.de
  3. ↑ New exhibition “Barkas, Simson, Moccadolly” in the Museum of Applied Arts Gera. Retrieved February 25, 2018 .
  4. ↑ He gave shape to important GDR products: The Gera designer of Simson and Wartburg . ( otz.de [accessed on February 25, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Rudolph, Lutz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German designer / industrial designer
DATE OF BIRTH September 28, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Gera
DATE OF DEATH March 7, 2011
Place of death Berlin