Wolfgang von Wersin

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Wolfgang von Wersin (born December 3, 1882 in Prague , † June 13, 1976 in Bad Ischl ) was a German architect and designer .

Life

After studying painting in Prague between 1900 and 1901, he moved to Munich, where he completed a degree in architecture in 1904. While studying architecture, he also studied painting from 1902 to 1905 at the teaching and experimental studio for applied and free art in Munich, where he worked as a teacher from 1906 after his military service. He met his wife Herthe (1888–1971) at school. She worked as a draftsman and also illustrated one of his books.

From 1912 he worked for the Deutsche Werkstätten . He dealt with exhibition architecture and provided designs for furniture, fabrics, wallpaper and ceramics.

The design of a dinner service for the Munich magistrate, which was manufactured in 1928 by the Nymphenburg Porcelain Manufactory , made him known and so in 1929 he took over the management of the department for commercial art at the Bavarian National Museum in Munich; his dismissal in September 1933 was for political reasons.

In addition to his work as a museum director, from 1932 he designed the Adonis , Helios and Lotos table service forms for Nymphenburg .

From 1936 to 1938 he designed the Helena dinner service for Rosenthal and the Ariadne service for the Thomas porcelain factory in Marktredwitz (taken over by Rosenthal in 1908) . In 1946 he took part in the founding of the Upper Austrian Werkbund , of which he was president until his death. He taught at the art school of the city of Linz , and in 1956 he published his book vom Rectangle, in which he dealt with the application of the various rectangular shapes in architecture and design. He distinguished between square , hemidiagon, trion, quadriagon, biauron, penton, diagon, bipenton, hemiolion, auron, sixton and double square.

plant

  • 1912: Tin ashtray for German workshops (cast: Hellerau)
  • 1913: candlestick (Hellerau)
  • 1928: Vase, Tiroler Glashütte Kramsach Austria
  • 1930: Pewter jug ​​for Eugen Wiedamann , Regensburg
  • 1939: Vase design for Rosenthal
  • 1958: Thermos flask "Thermolord" for Erhard & Söhne
  • 1958: Drinking set for J. & L. Lobmeyr for the Milan Triennale

Exhibitions

  • From arts and crafts to industrial forms. Exhibition at Villa Stuck , Munich, from October 30 to December 8, 1991; German Werkbund Frankfurt e. V. from January 31 to April 26, 1992 in cooperation with the Museum für Kunsthandwerk, Frankfurt, Main; Pillnitz Castle, Dresden, from May 16 to August 30, 1992.
  • Wolfgang von Wersin, 1882–1976. Design and product development. Stadtmuseum Linz-Nordico in collaboration with the collection, Munich: April 7-30, 1983. In: Art Yearbook of the City of Linz. 1983.

Awards

Publications

  • The elementary ornament and its legality. A morphology of ornament. (Photos by Walter Müller-Grah, text drawings by Herthe von Wersin) Otto Maier Verlag, Ravensburg 1953.
  • The Book of the Rectangle - Law and Gestures of the Spatial. Otto Maier Verlag, Ravensburg 1956, ISBN 3-781403-20-3 .

literature

  • Jos. Popp: Wolfgang von Wersin . In: Decorative Art, Illustrated Journal for Applied Art, Vol .: 32 = Jg. 27, 1923/24, pp. 160–168 ( digitized version ).
  • Friederike Berger: Herthe von Wersin , in: Tulga Beyerle , Klára Němečková (Eds.): Against Invisibility: Designers from the Deutsche Werkstätte Hellerau, 1898-1938 . Munich: Hirmer, 2018 ISBN 978-3-7774-3218-2 , pp. 219f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ at a glance ( memento of April 22, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) accessed March 17, 2009
  2. ↑ Wolfgang von Wersin ( Memento from April 11, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) accessed March 17, 2009
  3. ^ Franz Carl Lipp: Upper Austrian Werkbund. In: Yearbook of the Upper Austrian Museum Association. 122b, 1977, p. 166 ( PDF on ZOBODAT ).
  4. ^ Wolfgang von Wersin. Tray, 1912. 34.5 x 28.5 cm. Ma ( memento of September 4, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) accessed March 18, 2009
  5. ↑ http://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/vase-art-deco-glass-vase-von-wersin-tiroler-glas-587-c-612ff4a2c6 accessed March 18, 2009
  6. ↑ http://www.erhard-automotive.de/cms.asp?AE=1&IDN=67&Plugin=&H=%27158% 27 & T = 0 accessed March 18, 2009
  7. ↑ Product page at Lobmeyr
  8. ↑ accessed March 18, 2009
personal data
SURNAME Wersin, Wolfgang von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and designer
DATE OF BIRTH December 3, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague
DATE OF DEATH June 13, 1976
Place of death Bad Ischl