Wolfgang Dyroff

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Wolfgang Dyroff (born April 13, 1923 in Berga / Elster , Thuringia ; † October 4, 2018 in Lilienthal near Bremen ) was a German photographer , form designer and industrial designer . He is one of the most important East German industrial designers. He created numerous innovations, especially from the 1950s.

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The HBM 250 hand drill , called Multimax, designed by Wolfgang Dyroff in 1963 .

Dyroff was born in the Thuringian town of Berga / Elster in 1923 and grew up here and later in Weimar, around 80 kilometers away . There he also trained as a photographer and was active in this activity from 1938 to 1942. After doing his military service from 1942 to 1945 and being a member of the 2nd Battalion of the 6th Paratrooper Regiment , he worked in Horst Michel's working group in the post-war period in building up the university in Weimar , one of whose first graduates after the complete restructuring. During this time he was still often involved in the development of toys, mainly made of wood, where he created, among other things, a railway construction kit (1948) and a construction kit with horses and stables (also 1948) under Michel's supervision. Immediately afterwards he began studying under Michel in the class for industrial design at the University of Architecture and Fine Arts , which was the name of the Bauhaus University Weimar at the time. His diploma design was a height-adjustable floor lamp with a large glass body under an iron shade, intended as a reading lamp (IG 0722 / card index).

After completing his studies, he was accepted as a scientific and artistic assistant at the Weimar University, where he was again active under Horst Michel in the field of building, furniture and vehicle fittings at the Institute for Industrial Design (from 1953 Institute for Interior Design). Especially in his early days, Dyroff designed numerous furniture fittings and door handles for GDR production and in 1953 carried out a range of construction and furniture fittings. A curved door handle (Inv.No. IG 1246), which Wolfgang Dyroff developed especially for a laboratory in 1956 and which made it possible to open doors with the forearm, is described as particularly outstanding. In the same year he designed the MIXETTE , a stand mixer for VEB Döbelner Beschläge und Metallwerke, which was awarded the Gute Form design prize the following year .

While still at the Institute for Interior Design, the Thuringian began working with the automotive industry and designed numerous elements that were later to be found in or on thousands of vehicles. Among other things, a dashboard (Inv.-No. IG 0560) for the Wartburg or the car door handle (Inv.-No. IG 0552) for the first Trabant model series, the Trabant P 50 . In 1959 Dyroff moved with his family to Berlin , where he still lives today. In the same year he was next to the pioneer of modern textile design after the Second World War, Erich Pansold , the equally important industrial designer Rudi Högner , the VEB Kunstlederwerk Coswig , the VEB furniture fittings Luckenwalde and the Rathenower Optical Works (ROW) one of the first winners of the Ministry of Culture of the GDR awarded gold medal "For excellent design" for objects of industrial origin. In what would later become the German capital, he worked as an artistic assistant at the Institute for Applied Arts in Berlin until 1963 .

From 1963 he was active as a research assistant at the newly founded Central Institute for Design and during this time he also designed the design of the HBM 250 hand drill , called Multimax , of the VEB Werkzeugkombinat Schmalkalden , which was in its factory in Sebnitz , on the then Czechoslovakian border , until 1989 , was produced. Also in 1963, VEB Elektrowärme Altenburg , later Omega, launched the handheld vacuum cleaner 7000.8 designed by Wolfgang Dyroff , which was subsequently produced two million times and quickly became a bestseller. In 1972, the native of Thuringia moved to the newly established Office for Industrial Design , the state authority for planning, managing and monitoring industrial design in the GDR.

The graduate form designer worked there almost until his dissolution on April 30, 1990 and only left in 1988 when he retired. During his time in Berlin, he created various metal lights and, in 1966, the System 80 switch and socket series , which VEB Elektroinstallation Oberlind manufactured and which was installed in millions of GDR apartment blocks and prefabricated buildings from the 1960s onwards. With the same range of functions, Dyroff reduced the previous 1,300 elements to just 178. He also developed the MODELL P 605 lamp , which became the design classic with the highest circulation in the field of pendant lights from the PGH metal handle hall . His later designs include the vehicle safety light BL 2 , which Dyroff designed in the 1980s and which was exhibited between June and September 2014 in the Neue Sammlung in Munich and which was produced by the Heinz Purschke electromechanical workshop in Leipzig .

Most recently (as of September 2015) Wolfgang Dyroff lived at the age of 92 on Erich-Lodemann-Strasse in his adopted home Berlin. The industrial design collection includes designs by Dyroff and various other contemporaries. The study project designed in 1948 with the horses and stables including gates and farmers never went into production. It was only after Dyroff had given his original design to Günter Höhne that he started a small-scale production in cooperation with an Erzgebirge cabinet maker from 2014/15.

Quote

“I was always driven by what the American design pioneer Raymond Loewy once said,“ Designing a tractor is not such a big problem. But to make a sewing needle better! ""

- Wolfgang Dyroff : Günter Höhne , Penti, Erika and Bebo-sher: The classics of GDR design , 2001, p. 33

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Freie Presse, October 12, 2018 https://www.freipresse.de/kultur-wissen/kultur/ddr-industriedesigner-wolfgang-dyroff-gestorben-artikel10335774 , access date: October 13, 2018.
  2. ^ War experiences in the Eifel - Wolfgang Dyroff, Berlin , accessed on September 7, 2015
  3. ^ Design in the GDR - "The best for the working people" , accessed on September 7, 2015
  4. ↑ The year 1948 form-gestaltung-ddr.de , accessed on September 7, 2015
  5. ↑ a b "The most beautiful jug in the world" , accessed on September 7, 2015
  6. ↑ The year 1953 form-gestaltung-ddr.de , accessed on September 7, 2015
  7. ^ Design in the GDR: "The best for the working people" (Photo 12 of 20) , accessed on September 7, 2015
  8. ↑ The year 1956 form-gestaltung-ddr.de , accessed on September 7, 2015
  9. ↑ The 1959 to form-gestaltung-ddr.de , accessed on September 7, 2015
  10. ↑ Everyday and work equipment - from TV sets to hand drills , accessed on September 7, 2015
  11. ↑ a b The year 1963 on form-gestaltung-ddr.de , accessed on September 7, 2015
  12. ↑ System Design - Order must be , accessed on September 7, 2015
  13. ↑ The year 1966 on form-gestaltung-ddr.de , accessed on September 7, 2015
  14. ↑ The year 1965 on form-gestaltung-ddr.de , accessed on September 7, 2015
  15. ↑ Highlights of GDR design: The P 605 , accessed on September 7, 2015
  16. ^ GDR design in the Neue Sammlung Munich , accessed on September 7, 2015
  17. ↑ IN PROGRESS. WORK IN PROGRESS. COLLECTION HOMES. DESIGN. GDR , accessed on September 7, 2015
  18. ↑ horse Dyroff on formost.de , accessed on September 7, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Dyroff, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer, form designer and industrial designer
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Berga / Elster , Thuringia
DATE OF DEATH 4th October 2018
Place of death Lilienthal near Bremen