Peter Draenert

Peter Draenert (born May 24, 1937 - November 19, 2005 ) was a German furniture designer .

Life and work

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Peter Draenert studied philosophy , art history , German and psychology at the University of Tübingen . He did his doctorate on Friedrich Hölderlin . In 1968 he and his wife founded the Draenert Studios on Lake Constance in Immenstaad . In 1965, Peter Draenert accidentally found a slab of brown oil shale with petrified snails and shells in the back yard of a farmer in the Swabian Alb . He designed high-gloss chrome runners for it because he wanted this table for himself. The first Draenert table, the 1062 Primus model, was born. It was the first model made from Swabian oil shale, optionally with a large ammonite inserted , a 180 million year old primeval world find from the Jura era .

The four decades of his work had different focuses: in the 1970s, the tables made from oil shale became a worldwide sales success. This idea could be realized in cooperation with the monument office of the state of Baden-Württemberg and the research team of the Hauff Museum in Holzmaden .

Decisive for the success of the 1980s was the beginning of the art furniture series with the Frankfurt cupboards or secretaries with secret compartments by the well-known Frankfurt architects Berghof-Landes-Rang. These limited items are now in museums such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. Draenert receives international recognition with the Frankfurt cabinets. Other events of this decade were the collaboration with Ron Arad from London, Trix and Robert Haussmann from Zurich, David Palterer from Florence and Oswald Mathias Ungers from Cologne.

Both the rational and the irrational movement were cultivated in the 1990s. The movement in furniture was new at that time and was implemented to perfection for the first time thanks to the collaboration with the designer Georg Appeltshauser, which continues today. The Adler dining table comes from this decade. Many more tables and chairs with functions followed to this day.

From 2000, another dimension came into play: light. Not just self-lit tables or illuminated tables, but tables as light sources for a room. A series of art furniture was created with Walter Giers - light-kinetic objects with light and image converters, optical illusions that dissolve again and again, and random chimes that do not repeat themselves. The tables have a meditative character in interaction with the light and image converters.

In addition to his own models, he made it possible for well-known designers and architects, such as u. a. Oswald Mathias Ungers, Werner Aisslinger, Norbert Berghof, Trix and Robert Haussmann, Gino Carollo and David Palterer to realize their designs in the manufactory.

Works in public collections (selection)

Limited pieces of furniture that were created in the manufactory - such as B. the famous "Frankfurt cabinet" can be seen in numerous museums:

• Victoria & Albert Museum, London;
• Museum of Applied Arts, Cologne
• State art collections, Kassel
• Kestner Museum, Hanover
• Museum of Applied Arts, Cologne
• National Museum, Tokyo
• Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
• German Architecture Museum, Frankfurt
• Museum of Applied Arts, Cologne
• House of the History of the Federal Republic of Germany, Bonn
• Berlin State Museums, Museum of Applied Arts
• House of the History of the Federal Republic of Germany, Bonn
• Grassi Museum, Leipzig
• New collection, Munich

art

Peter Draenert was also a committed art collector and supported young artists such as Esther Seidel , Harald Häuser , Daniel Kojo Schrade with solo exhibitions in the Draenert Orangery, built in 1991 on the company premises. He also regularly showed classics such as B. Karl Otto Götz or Walter Stöhrer .

Web links

• Website of the Draenert Manufactory

Individual evidence

1. ↑ https://archive.today/20130212110710/http://www.suedkurier.de/region/bodenseekreis-oberschwaben/friedrichshafen/Trauer-um-Peter-Draenert;art372474,1802709 (obituary Harald Ruppert in: Südkurier. 23. November 2005, via archive.is)