Margret Hildebrand

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Margret Hildebrand (born May 6, 1917 in Stuttgart ; † December 21, 1997 in Hamburg ) was a German industrial designer who mainly worked in fabric design. She was one of the most important and versatile German textile designers of the reconstruction period.

Act

Hildebrand received from 1934 training at the State School of Applied Arts in Stuttgart and the Art School for Textile Design in Plauen. In 1938 she was employed in the Stuttgart curtain factory , where she took over the management of the design studio from 1948 (initially as the only designer). In 1951 she joined the company's management. In 1956 she was appointed to the professorship for textile design at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts . From 1963 one of her master students, Antoinette de Boer , took over the management of the design studio at the Stuttgart curtain factory.

As early as 1949, she was showing decorative fabrics at the Werkbund exhibition New Living in Cologne. As a result, there was collaboration with architects from the German Werkbund such as Hans Schwippert ; so the curtains of the Bundeshaus in Bonn come from her. In 1958 she designed the carpet for the German Pavilion at the Brussels World Exhibition ; it was produced by the anchor carpet factory Gebr. Schoeller .

Hildebrand was committed to the recognition of textile designers with an independent professional profile in the field of design. In 1981 she retired.

The Museum of Modern Art is showing two vases that she designed together with Elsa Fischer-Treyden . The Victoria & Albert Museum has wallpapers that she designed for Rasch & Co.

Private

Hildebrand married the 25 years younger homosexual murderer and later writer Hans-Peter Reichelt, also known as Hans Eppendorfer , on March 26, 1971 , and lived with him until her death in Hamburg-Eppendorf.

Prizes and awards

  • Medaglia d'Oro Triennale Milan (1951)
  • Die Gute Industrieform / iF (1967): Dose 0/1000 (with Elsa Fischer-Treyden)
  • Die Gute Industrieform / iF (1967): lamp »L 060« (with Elsa Fischer-Treyden)
  • Die Gute Industrieform / iF (1967): Bowl 0007/0100 (with Elsa Fischer-Treyden)
  • Die Gute Industrieform / iF (1967): Vase 2948/0100 (with Elsa Fischer-Treyden)
  • Rosenthal Studio Prize for excellently designed products in the living area (1967): Carpet Expo

Fonts

  • Hermann Gretsch / Margret Hildebrand: Industrial textile design. Riemerschmidt, Berlin 1942

literature

  • Jutta Beder : Margret Hildebrand and the Stuttgart curtain factory. In: Same Between Blümchen and Picasso. Textile design of the fifties in West Germany LIT-Verlag, Münster 2002, pp. 61–65.
  • Otto Haupt : Margret Hildebrand Stuttgart: Hatje 1952 = writings on design 1.
  • Karin Thönissen: Margret Hildebrand - designer (1917–1998). In: Gerda Breuer (ed.), The good life. The German Werkbund after 1945. Tübingen 2007, pp. 139–143.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ According to the statement of the husband Hans Eppendorfer in his film "Search for Life"
  2. ↑ Jutta Beder Between Blümchen and Picasso. Textile design of the fifties in West Germany Münster 2002, p. 23
  3. ↑ World Exhibition Brussels (Deutscher Werkbund) ( Memento from December 20, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Margret Hildebrand (MoMa)
  5. ↑ Margret Hildebrand (V & A)
  6. ↑ In his book Hans Eppendorfer. The leather man. An attempt at a biography in-Cultura.com, Hamburg 2018, the author François Maher Presley describes the mutual connection using his own experiences with the couple and statements by Eppendorfers.
  7. ↑ Hans Wichmann From Morris to Memphis: Textiles from the New Collection from the end of the 19th to the end of the 20th century Birkhäuser, Basel 1990, p. 223
  8. ^ Lamp L 060
personal data
SURNAME Hildebrand, Margret
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German industrial designer
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH 1998