Peter Keler
Peter Keler (born December 2, 1898 in Kiel , † November 11, 1982 in Weimar ) was a German graphic artist , furniture designer and architect at the Bauhaus .
Life
After finishing school in 1914, Keler began studying at the Kiel School of Applied Arts . In 1917 he was drafted into military service during the First World War . After the end of the war he went to the State Bauhaus Weimar from 1919 to 1921 . He dealt with painting , color design and carpentry and attended the courses of Josef Albers , Johannes Itten , Oskar Schlemmer and Wassily Kandinsky . After the Bauhaus moved to Dessau in 1925, Keler stayed in Weimar and ran his own studio for painting, furniture design, interior design and advertising graphics. From 1927 he worked as a freelancer in Dresden, among other things for the Saxon textile industry. From 1930 he designed seating furniture for the Waldheim furniture company Albert Walde. In 1937 Keler moved to Berlin and dealt with architecture and exhibition design. During the war years he also worked as a film architect.
After the end of the war, he was appointed to the newly founded University of Architecture and Fine Arts in Weimar, where after 1945 emphasis was placed on building on former Bauhaus traditions. Keler taught drawing, design and architecture and led the preparatory courses based on the Bauhaus model until his retirement. As early as 1948 towards the end of the Soviet occupation, the Bauhaus ideas were pushed back in accordance with the new doctrine (against the “ formalism ”), with corresponding effects on teachers who - like Keler - were not party members.
At the same time, he continued his work as an architect and, since 1965, devoted himself to Weimar and Born a. Darß increased the painting. Peter Keler died on November 11, 1982 in Weimar.
His son Jan Keler donated parts of his private book collection to the Weimar University Library in 2016 .
Furniture designed by Keler is now being manufactured again by the Tecta company : e.g. B. the chair “D 1/3” and the cradle after Wassily Kandinsky , which became one of the icons of the Bauhaus.
Web links
- Short biography at www.designlexikon.net , last accessed on December 26, 2010
- Pictures of Keler's works at the furniture manufacturer Tecta , auction results from Artnet.de , as well as "von Zezschwitz" art auctions
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Josef Straßer: 50 Bauhaus icons that you should know . Prestel, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-7913-8455-9 , pp. 25th f .
- ↑ From the idea to the myth. The reception of the Bauhaus in both parts of Germany in times of a new beginning (1945 and 1989) Dissertation by Martin Bober
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Keler, Peter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German graphic artist, furniture designer and architect at the Bauhaus |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 2, 1898 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kiel |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 11, 1982 |
| Place of death | Weimar |