Industrial design collection

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The Industrial Design Collection is a collection on design and everyday culture from the GDR and is supported by the House of History Foundation of the Federal Republic of Germany. After the New Collection in Munich, it is the second oldest design museum in Germany that did not emerge from an older arts and crafts museum . With around 160,000 objects, documents, photos, a library and archival materials, it is the most extensive collection on East German product design todayafter 1945. Interior decoration, household, technical equipment, entertainment electronics, toys and textiles, posters, advertising material and packaging form the main focus of the collection. The exhibition location has been the museum in the Kulturbrauerei in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg since 1994 .

history

The first objects in the collection come from the "institute for industrial design" founded by Mart Stam in 1950 at the University of Applied Arts , which was supposed to develop new products for the economy of the GDR. From 1953, the institute, renamed the Office for Industrial Design , built up a collection of samples of good and bad design for industrial products and its own design work. As a result, in addition to high-quality samples from the GDR industry, the institution collected historical models from the German Werkbund and the Bauhaus as well as design products from western countries. From the 1970s onwards, other typical everyday objects were added. Many products with the “ Gutes Design GDR ” award, which was awarded from 1978, were also collected . The collection, headed by Hein Köster from 1987 to 2005, was used for exhibitions by the office and from 1986 onwards it had its own studio exhibitions.

After the reunification in 1990 the office for industrial design was dissolved. The collection, together with the specialist library and the office's photo collection, was preserved as a museum and was funded by the Industrial and Everyday Culture Foundation established for this purpose in 1990. The Märkisches Museum was the new sponsor in 1991 and the German Historical Museum in 2001 . In the meantime, the inventory was greatly expanded to include design and everyday objects as well as bequests.

From 1994 onwards, the industrial design collection in the Kulturbrauerei showed annually changing exhibitions on the history of design and culture in the GDR. In addition to many others, such as B. " Christa Petroff-Bohne . An East German Designer Biography" (2000) and Clauss Dietel and Lutz Rudolph: Design is Culture "(2002/2003) will be the elaborate exhibition" Continuity and Change. Product design at the Berlin-Weißensee School of Art "(2003). Curated by a student project group led by Professors Dietmar Palloks and Gerhard Strehl, current work by students at the Berlin-Weißensee School of Art was compared to a documentation of the study results from 1953 to 1993 The exhibition was part of the event program of the World Congress of Designers ICSID in the Federal Republic.

After it was transferred to the Haus der Geschichte Foundation in 2005, the collection was moved to a new depot and will be cataloged. Research results have not yet been published and exhibitions have not taken place. The House of History Foundation has been showing a new permanent exhibition "Everyday Life in the GDR" in the museum in the Kulturbrauerei since November 2013 . The plans were initially under the title "Everyday life in the SED dictatorship". According to the House of History, around 175 of the 800 exhibits are from the collection, of which only a few design products. Their design quality or their importance in the GDR's world of goods are not represented according to the concept. Since the exhibition project became known in 2012, there have been public debates and international protests. A compromise resulted in early 2013 that the museum will show design history temporary exhibitions from the holdings of the collection from the end of 2014. The exhibitions should be advised by an external team of experts and supported by publications and discussion events.

Stocks

Larger inventory groups are: computing and information devices, measuring devices, machines, tools, typewriters, cameras and projectors, radio and television sets, ovens and heaters, lights, table and table equipment made of ceramics, glass and metal, kitsch, plastic items, household appliances, wallpaper and textiles, chairs and armchairs, furniture and toys. The collection includes around 7,500 posters on cultural life, everyday life, business, and political propaganda and product advertising. Other objects document the symbolism and propaganda of the state and its political organizations as well as the facilities of government buildings.

Designer

The collection includes designs by designers such as Marlies Ameling, Hedwig Bollhagen , Marianne Brandt , Friedrich Bundtzen , Ilse Decho , Clauss Dietel , Wolfgang Dyroff , Franz Ehrlich , Ursel Erbs, Ernst Fischer, Horst Geil, Horst Giese, Rudolf Horn , Margarete Jahny , Erich John , Käthe Kruse , Fritz Kühn (Lindenbänke), Erich Mendelsohn , Hans Merz, Horst Michel , Christa Petroff-Bohne , Richard Riemerschmid , Lutz Rudolph , Dietmar Scheibe, Günter Schmitz , Hildegard Schulze-Krahmer, Selman Selmanagić , Mart Stam , Ernst Rudolf Vogenauer , Wilhelm Wagenfeld , Ludwig Zepner .

Further stocks

The collection includes the specialist library of the Office for Industrial Design of the GDR on design, architecture and applied arts. It includes around 9,000 books and around 430 magazine titles.

The photo collection of around 28,000 prints and 13,500 slides today documents primarily award-winning industrial design, architecture and environmental design and includes thematic series. Photographers include Georg Eckelt , Bernd Heyden , Ute Mahler, Christine and Günter Starke, Ulrich Wüst .

The collection keeps the estates of well-known designers from the GDR, such as Horst Michel (1904–1989), Helene Haeusler (1904–1987), and holdings on the design of the companies VEB TAKRAF (crane construction, conveyor technology), HELIRADIO or August Bosse, Weimar (interior fittings) .

Catalogs for exhibitions

  • Deutscher Werkbund, Regine Halter (ed.): From Bauhaus to Bitterfeld - 41 years of GDR design. Giessen 1991.
  • Dagmar Lüder: Helene Haeusler. Life and work of a toy designer. Publication of the industrial design collection. Berlin 1995.
  • Thomas Gubig and Sebastian Köpcke: Chlorodont. Biography of a German branded product, Dresden 1996.
  • Ina Merkel and Felix Mühlberg: miracle economy. GDR consumer culture in the 1960s, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 1996.
  • Thomas Gubig and Sebastian Köpcke: Tried and tested - youthful: advertising graphics by Günter Schmitz. Berlin 1997.
  • Thomas Gubig and Sebastian Köpcke: Horst Geil - commercial artist of the 50s and 60s, Berlin 1999.
  • Köster, Hein and others: Christa Petroff-Bohne. An East German designer biography, Wunsiedel 2000.
  • Kassner, Jens: Clauss Dietel and Lutz Rudolph. Design is culture, Chemnitz 2002.

literature

Web links

See also

Werkbundarchiv - Museum der Dinge

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cf. Johanna Sänger: On the history of the Industrial Design Collection in the GDR  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved November 3, 2013.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.gfdg.org  
  2. ↑ See Foundation House of History of the Federal Republic of Germany: Collection , accessed on April 14, 2013.
  3. ↑ See Foundation House of the History of the Federal Republic of Germany: From 1950 to today , accessed on April 14, 2013.
  4. ^ Collection Industrial Design (Ed.): Insights, Outlooks, 1991, p. 16 f.
  5. ↑ Collection Industrial Design (Ed.): Insights, Outlooks, 1991, p. 18.
  6. ↑ See articles in the museum magazine , accessed on April 14, 2013.
  7. ↑ See Nine Years Closed , Berliner Zeitung , July 30, 2011, accessed on April 14, 2013
  8. ^ Cf. New exhibition location is developing , in: Museumsmagazin 4/2012, accessed on April 14, 2013
  9. ↑ See press release Foundation House of the History of the Federal Republic of Germany: Everyday Life in the GDR - New Museum on Prenzlauer Berg in Berlin for the opening on November 15, 2013
  10. ↑ Christiane Meixner: Give things back to us! , Der Tagesspiegel , accessed on April 14, 2013
  11. ↑ GDR art: Dictatorship Museum in the Kulturbrauerei - Culture - Berliner Zeitung , accessed on November 3, 2013. For the debate, see also: Pauline Klünder: Am profile past  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: design-report, 1/2012, accessed on April 14, 2013. News from the Society for Design History ( Memento of the original from April 10, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed April 14, 2013.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.design-report.de   @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gfdg.org
  12. ↑ Society for Design History: "THE“ OPEN LETTER ”TO THE HOUSE OF HISTORY WAS SUCCESSFUL" ( Memento of the original from November 30, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed April 14, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gfdg.org
  13. ↑ Cf. Collection Industrial Design (ed.): Insights, Outlooks, 1991, pp. 37–124.
  14. ^ Foundation House of History of the Federal Republic of Germany: Collection of objects , accessed on April 14, 2013
  15. ↑ - ( Memento of the original from December 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed April 14, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.industrieform-ddr.de
  16. ^ Foundation House of History of the Federal Republic of Germany: Library , accessed on April 14, 2013
  17. ^ Foundation House of History of the Federal Republic of Germany: Photo library , accessed on April 14, 2013

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