Hans Erich Slany

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Hans Erich Slany (born October 26, 1926 in Böhmisch Wiesenthal , Czechoslovakia ; † September 22, 2013 in Esslingen am Neckar ) was a German designer and university professor .

Along with Dieter Rams and Hans Gugelot, he was a prominent representative of industrial design in the Federal Republic. He founded and managed the design studio Slany Design , was a professor of industrial design and a founding member of the Association of German Industrial Designers (VDID).

Life

Slany was drafted into the Wehrmacht and became a prisoner of war. After the end of the war, he returned to Esslingen and obtained a degree in mechanical engineering from the Esslingen University of Applied Sciences in 1948 . Then he took a position as a product developer and assistant to the technical management at Ritter Aluminum GmbH in Esslingen.

Later he worked for the styling department of Daimler AG in Sindelfingen for two years . There he worked on the Mercedes-Benz 300SL gullwing, among other things . He also developed the design of the Zeiss Ikonette compact camera with Heinrich Löffelhardt , one of the first cameras with a plastic housing. Then he turned to Robert Bosch GmbH with ideas for power tools in plastic housings. Based on these ideas and suggestions, Robert Bosch GmbH published the book “The Influence of Ergonomics on the Design of Power Tools” as a reference work for its engineers and also as a publication for the traveling exhibition “Making work easier: Ergonomics for power tools”.

In the course of the design expansion at the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart , which was activated at the time by the state government of Baden-Württemberg , Hans Erich Slany was appointed to a newly established professorship for capital goods design in the 1986/87 winter semester, which he held until his retirement in 1991. The four-semester course, which was set up under his leadership, was unique in Germany and started in the winter semester of 1987/88, was "reserved for graduate engineers and requires a degree in mechanical engineering / mechanical engineering at a scientific university, a technical college or a university University of Cooperative Education or a comparable degree abroad ”. Despite the international response, also under Slany's successor George Teodorescu , the course was discontinued by the academy in 2012.

The Sudeten German Academy of Sciences and Arts appointed Hans Erich Slany in 1989 as a full member of the Class of Arts and Art Studies.

It was important to Slany to live the culture of teamwork with companies and to develop projects in close collaboration. He said: “In the past, designers often worked in isolation and only with artistic design criteria, influenced by different cultural views. The industrial designer today works systematically. Only then does he analyze, compare, check and design ... A creative, lively design team provides the best conditions for innovative suggestions that flow into the cross-departmental decision-making process. "

In 1956, Hans Erich Slany founded the design studio Slany Design . In 1996 he retired from the company that is now called TEAMS Design .

Association of German Industrial Designers

Slany founded the Association of German Industrial Designer eV with the designers Arno Votteler , Karl Dittert , Hans Theo Baumann , Herbert Hirche , Günter Kupetz , Rainer Schütze and Peter Raacke. Baumann was the association's first president until 1970. The aim was to create an interest group to adequately represent the designer's professional profile in public, to advise members on legal matters and, in general, to promote both exchange and further training. Slany made a significant contribution to keeping the VDID in the Council of Societies of Industrial Design (ICSID). Today the VDID also works closely with the Association of German Fashion and Textile Designers (VDMD) under the umbrella of the German Designer Association (DDV).

Honors

literature

  • Slany, Hans-Erich; Leisentritt, Stefanie (2013): Industrial Design - A Success Story. Sindlinger-Burchartz publishing house, ISBN 978-3-928812-64-1 .
  • Bauer, Wolfgang-Otto (2007). European Cutlery Design 1948-2000 , Arnoldsche Art Publishers, ISBN 978-3-89790-246-6 .
  • Betts, Paul, (2007), The Authority of Everyday Objects: A Cultural History of West German Industrial Design (Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism) , University of * California Press, ISBN 978-0-520-25384-1 .
  • Godau, Marion ; Antonelli, Paola, (2007) Design Directory Germany , Universe, ISBN 978-0-7893-0389-9 .
  • Fiell, Peter; Fiell, Charlotte; Krumhauer, Julia, (2003). Industrial Design AZ , Taschen, ISBN 978-3-8228-2426-9 .
  • Kupetz, Andrej, editor (2001). "Gunter Kupetz: Industrial Design", Birkhauser Architecture, ISBN 978-3-7643-7688-8 .
  • Zec, Peter, (1997). German Design Standards , Cologne: DuMont, ISBN 978-3-7701-4290-3 .
  • Marquart, Christian, (1994). Industrial Culture - Industrial Design: A Piece of German Economic and Design History: The Founder Members of the Association of German Industrial , John Wiley & Sons, ISBN 978-3-433-02343-3 , pages 211-257.
  • Zimmer, Dieter. "Zwei x 12 German Designer", md Moebel Interior Design 1987.
  • Ogursky, Guenter; Stof, Gabrielle (editors). The Influence of Ergonomics on the Design of Power Tools , Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart 1987.
  • Ogursky, Günter; Stof, Gabrielle, On the Influence of Ergonomics on Power Tool Design. On easier work with power tools, Robert Bosch, Stuttgart 1987.

Web links

credentials

  1. ^ Obituary notice Hans Erich Slany Stuttgarter Zeitung, accessed on February 16, 2014
  2. ↑ Who´s Who in German Design , a summary of well-known German designers
  3. ^ Charlotte and Peter Fiell: Industrial Design AZ. Taschen-Verlag 2000. ISBN 978-3-8228-6310-7 .
  4. ^ Gabriele Stof: The Influence of Ergonomics on the Design of Power Tools
  5. ↑ Wolfgang Kermer : Data and images on the history of the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart . Stuttgart: Edition Cantz, 1988 (= improved reprint from: The State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart: a self-portrayal . Stuttgart: Edition Cantz, 1988), o. P. [17].
  6. ^ Marquart, Christian (1994). Industrial Culture - Industrial Design. Berlin: Ernst & Son. P. 216. ISBN 978-3-433-02343-3 .
  7. ↑ VDID website
personal data
SURNAME Slany, Hans Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German designer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH October 26, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Bohemian Wiesenthal
DATE OF DEATH 22nd September 2013
Place of death Esslingen am Neckar