Richard Wunderlich

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Richard Constantin Alexander Wunderlich (born September 22, 1902 in Vyborg , † July 3, 1976 in Stockholm ) was a furniture designer and interior designer. From 1940 to 1941 head of the interior design department at Jaan Koorti nimelise Riigi Rakenduskunsti Kooli (now EKA ).

Life

Chair for the presidential office
Cabinet with fish
Estonian war cemetery

His family moved to Tallinn . He studied at the same time at the Tallinn School of Applied Arts and the Hans Laipmann Atelier and then at the Pallas in Tartu . From 1928 to 1929 he studied interior design at the Werkschule in Cologne and is considered to be the first Estonian to receive professional training in this area. For many years he was chairman of the Association of Applied Artists .

Together with Erich Birk, Wunderlich founded the interior design office Uus Mööbel in 1933, which specializes in the design of luxury furniture . Furniture designed by him was used in the boardroom of the President's Office in Kadriorg .

At the 1937 World's Fair in Paris , Wunderlich was the chief designer of the Estonian pavilion . There he was awarded a gold medal for his cabinet with fish (second picture).

The Baltic States were first occupied and then annexed by the Soviet Union at the beginning of the Second World War . The invading Wehrmacht ousted them again and was greeted by their inhabitants as their liberators . When the Red Army returned to Estonia in 1944, numerous Estonians fled from it to avoid alleged persecution . One of them was Wunderlich. After the war he was a Displaced Person in the DP camp in Pöppendorf near Lübeck . There he designed the camp church and in 1947 together with the living there also at the time architect Roman Koolmar planned and built it by the Estonian national community -funded Estonian military cemetery on the Vorwerker cemetery for reminder to the in exile in Schleswig-Holstein deceased Estonians from the civilian population .

In the same year, Wunderlich emigrated to Sweden . There he was to work as an interior designer for Nordiska Kompaniet for more than 20 years .

Web links

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credentials

  1. ↑ "Development of Estonian Furniture (Eesti mööbli areng)" in Eesti Päevaleht = Estniska Dagbladet (Swedish) of July 28, 1976
personal data
SURNAME Wonderful, Richard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wunderlich, Richard Constantin Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Estonian interior designer and furniture designer
DATE OF BIRTH September 22, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Vyborg
DATE OF DEATH 3rd July 1976
Place of death Stockholm