Reinhold Weiss

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Reinhold Weiss (born May 10, 1934 in Stuttgart ) is a German product designer .

Life

Reinhold Weiss studied from 1955 to 1959 at the Ulm School of Design , which is considered the most important international design school after the Bauhaus , and graduated with a diploma. From 1959 to 1967 he was the first of only two Ulm graduates to work as a product designer for the electrical appliance manufacturer Braun ( Richard Fischer joined in 1960 ). From 1962 he was deputy head of the design department at Braun and independently responsible for the household sector. In 1967 he moved to Chicago , where he a. a. worked for the hi-fi equipment manufacturers NAD (New Acoustic Dimension) and Proton.

For these companies, Weiss designed many nationally and internationally awarded products. For Braun, for example, the KSM1 / 11 and KMM1 coffee grinders, the HE1 kettle, the HL1 / 2 table / car fan, the TFG1 table lighter, the HT1 / 2 toaster, the HG1 grill, the M140 hand mixer, the HLD2 / 3/5 hairdryer and the Headphones KH1000. Some of these devices are on display as design icons in the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Israel Museum .

Weiss now lives in Evanston, Illinois .

literature

  • Design + Design No. 48–52, Klatt Verlag
  • Design + Design No. 85 (2008)
  • Bernd Polster : BRAUN - Fifty Years of Design and Innovation , Menges Verlag Stuttgart, London 2009

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ German Design Council for the Design Prize of the Federal Republic of Germany 2007 / Design Award of the Federal Republic of Germany Birkhäuser Verlag 2007, p. 17 f.
  2. ↑ Braun HL 70 table fan and the program
  3. ↑ Table lighter gas (Broesan)
  4. ↑ cf. also How Dieter Rams Made Braun Look Cool New York Times , June 6, 2011
  5. ↑ US patent Food mixer and the like US D207859 p
  6. ↑ Collection in MoMA
  7. ^ Collection in the Israel Museum
  8. ↑ entry (That Object)
personal data
SURNAME Weiss, Reinhold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German product designer
DATE OF BIRTH May 10, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart