Traudl Brunnquell
Gertrud "Traudl" Maria Brunnquell (born August 29, 1919 in Munich ; † March 16, 2010 ) was a German designer .
Life
She came from the Adam family of artists from Munich. Her great-grandfather was the artist Albrecht Adam . From 1933 to 1934 she trained as a technical draftsman in Munich. There she met her future husband, the entrepreneur 's son Karl-Heinz Brunnquell . During the war she worked for the Isar-Amper-Werke . In 1945 she married her husband, who in the same year took over the management of his parents' business, Brunnquell & Co. in Sondershausen . The company, founded in 1913, specializes in electrotechnical installation elements as well as porcelain lights and protective sockets made of porcelain. After the expropriation by the Soviet occupying power in 1948, Traudl Brunnquell and her husband settled in Ingolstadt and together with him they set up the company "Brunnquell GmbH Fabrik electrical engineering apparatus". In 1961 she took over the management of the design department. In this function she designed numerous lights up to 1979, two of which were awarded a prize in 1977 by an international jury for the special show "Die gute Industrieform 1977".
Web links
- Biography on the website of the Museum of Concrete Art
- Homepage of the creative industries Ingolstadt
- "A woman with luminosity" article from the Donaukurier from 23 August 2019
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Brunnquell, Traudl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Adam, Gertrud Maria (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German designer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 29, 1919 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 16, 2010 |