THE ORIGINALS Bauhaus table lamp, from C. Juker nel 1923 - design .C. Juker
This table lamp, designed by C. Juker in 1923, is often named the Bauhaus lamp. C. Juker was 20 years old, when he was admitted as a journeyman to the workshop at the Bauhaus in Weimar. Here he designed the first model of this lamp as his solution to an assignment given to him by Moholy-Nagy. As C. Juker said years later, the Bauhaus designs were intended to be industrial products, and indeed looked like them. In fact they were hand-crafted ...
[Staatliches Bauhaus School, with workshops for formative crafts, architecture and visual arts, the decisive influence on the development of modern architecture and modern industrial design exercised. The Bauhaus was founded in 1919 by Walter Gropius by merger of the School of Visual Arts and Crafts School, Henry van de Velde (1863-1957) in Weimar]
One of the symbols from the Bauhaus period, which is still visible today in many publications and design shops, the "Bauhaus lamp".
The history took place as follows: industrial design opened up a metal workshop only under Moholy-Nagy. The big planned for summer of 1923, Bauhaus performance show offered the chance to adapt to the new practical tasks. Lamps on fitting the model house built by Georg Muche presented for the metal workshop an experimental field of the desired unity of art and technology dar.
The Bauhaus Lamp:
two lamps - three designers
In the metal workshop were developed in the years 1923 and 1924, two versions of a table lamp in the shape of the foot and the shank differ (Figure). One version has a foot a flat metal plate resting on three half-spheres, above which rises a metal tube that carries the milk glass bell. In another variant, the foot consists of a thick glass plate and the shank of a transparent glass tube. Inside, a thin metal tube, the wires leading to the text. According to the different shape of the foot and shank, the two versions as metal and glass lamp called the question which preceded the two versions of the others, is most intimately connected with another question: Who stands responsible for the designs? Three designers also make claims for itself, "father" to have been of such a successful product. These are the former Bauhaus student Gyula Pap, Carl Jacob Jucker and Wilhelm Wagenfeld just before the turn of the century in Hungary Gyula Pap was born in the autumn of 1920 at the Bauhaus in Weimar, where he first visited the Itten's preliminary course. From 1921 to 1923 he worked in the metal workshop, since the spring of 1923 headed Laszlo Moholy-Nagy as a master of form. Its for the model house in the Horn in 1923, designed high floor lamp with mirrored bulb Dad claims to be the first ever suffered by the Bauhaus lamp (picture left). He wants it have been, suggested to the out originally for an electric tea maker (right) imaginary parts to make a lamp: "I feel as if I saw today, the glass parts spread out on my desk, which according to my wish from Jena have been sent. Four feet provided as glass tubes, one as a base thought thick round glass top and a non-usable, too small and too thin milk glass globe. I wrote to Zeiss, asked for new manufacture of a ball in other dimensions. But the days passed. My mother seriously ill and I had to travel to Transylvania, this is very überstürtzt, because the ticket was the bad news from home at already. This was my material before me - what should be wärhend my absence from this? "I gave everything to my Swiss colleagues Jucker and recommended him to design it into a table lamp. It seemed to me that the size of the milk glass globe is how to create this one of the glass tube could possibly as foot, thick round glass top may serve as a footprint. Moholy-Nagy also knew about my proposal, which included and was soon realized. But never I had once believed that this collective work could be once so famous and respected. " By contrast, Carl Jacob Jucker, of 1922 (after completion of a silversmith's doctrine was still on the left) at the Zurich School of Applied Arts to Bauhaus writes, the glass bulb itself. "Purely by year" would be the version Paps "quite likely", but it was "pure fiction," said Jucker, 1983 in a letter to the Bauhaus-Archiv. Marcel Breuer in collaboration he had created the glass bulb for the model house exhibition in 1923. However, the first copy issued a silk parachute had that instead of the glass dome, as these by Schott & Gen. Were not delivered on time and arrived only after the opening date was. "When the right glass dome in Jena and precisely fitted, the lamp was not there long, but wandered into the old building on the desk of Gropius." The idea for the glass bulb came to him while working on another table lamp (pictured right): This show six table lamps, whose foot and shaft of the final form are very close, but they lack the characteristic bell-glass. Instead, we experimented with umbrellas and hats in fabric, hinged and mirrored reflector bulbs. One of these lamps, which has a movable reflector and a mirrored bulb ü ber shortened shaft, published in 1925 is depicted in the publication "New works by the Bauhaus workshops." In the caption of a table lamp where the speech is to be referred to as designers and Jucker in 1923 as a draft year. As Jucker in September 1923 left the Bauhaus, was The final shape of the glass bulb probably not yet been found. Only now Wagenfeld came on the scene. The most important change concerned the glass dome: You lay a whole lot deeper than the shades of the lamps on the photographs of 1923. The intricate design history may be best to address by Pap with a "collective work" speaks. This is with even greater justification than that of Jucker mentioned co-Breuer or influences from the two master Moholy-Nagy and Christian Dell in the already difficult reconstruction of the history can not even be considered. It should remain
that a unilateral identification of the "Bauhaus lamp passes" with the name and work Wagenfeld the facts of their design history and the significant contribution suppresses Jucker (right) (1907-1997).
that a unilateral identification of the "Bauhaus lamp passes" with the name and work Wagenfeld the facts of their design history and the significant contribution suppresses Jucker (right) (1907-1997).
[from aus Die Bauhauslampe von Thomas Heyden Bauhaus-Archiv Dieter Reimer Verlag Berlin 1992.]
This table lamp, designed by C. Juker in 1923, is often named the Bauhaus lamp. C. Juker was 20 years old, when he was admitted as a journeyman to the workshop at the Bauhaus in Weimar. Here he designed the first model of this lamp as his solution to an assignment given to him by Moholy-Nagy. As C. Juker said years later, the Bauhaus designs were intended to be industrial products, and indeed looked like them. In fact they were hand-crafted ...
[Staatliches Bauhaus School, with workshops for formative crafts, architecture and visual arts, the decisive influence on the development of modern architecture and modern industrial design exercised. The Bauhaus was founded in 1919 by Walter Gropius by merger of the School of Visual Arts and Crafts School, Henry van de Velde (1863-1957) in Weimar]
One of the symbols from the Bauhaus period, which is still visible today in many publications and design shops, the "Bauhaus lamp".
The history took place as follows: industrial design opened up a metal workshop only under Moholy-Nagy. The big planned for summer of 1923, Bauhaus performance show offered the chance to adapt to the new practical tasks. Lamps on fitting the model house built by Georg Muche presented for the metal workshop an experimental field of the desired unity of art and technology dar.
The Bauhaus Lamp:
two lamps - three designers
In the metal workshop were developed in the years 1923 and 1924, two versions of a table lamp in the shape of the foot and the shank differ (Figure). One version has a foot a flat metal plate resting on three half-spheres, above which rises a metal tube that carries the milk glass bell. In another variant, the foot consists of a thick glass plate and the shank of a transparent glass tube. Inside, a thin metal tube, the wires leading to the text. According to the different shape of the foot and shank, the two versions as metal and glass lamp called the question which preceded the two versions of the others, is most intimately connected with another question: Who stands responsible for the designs? Three designers also make claims for itself, "father" to have been of such a successful product. These are the former Bauhaus student Gyula Pap, Carl Jacob Jucker and Wilhelm Wagenfeld just before the turn of the century in Hungary Gyula Pap was born in the autumn of 1920 at the Bauhaus in Weimar, where he first visited the Itten's preliminary course. From 1921 to 1923 he worked in the metal workshop, since the spring of 1923 headed Laszlo Moholy-Nagy as a master of form. Its for the model house in the Horn in 1923, designed high floor lamp with mirrored bulb Dad claims to be the first ever suffered by the Bauhaus lamp (picture left). He wants it have been, suggested to the out originally for an electric tea maker (right) imaginary parts to make a lamp: "I feel as if I saw today, the glass parts spread out on my desk, which according to my wish from Jena have been sent. Four feet provided as glass tubes, one as a base thought thick round glass top and a non-usable, too small and too thin milk glass globe. I wrote to Zeiss, asked for new manufacture of a ball in other dimensions. But the days passed. My mother seriously ill and I had to travel to Transylvania, this is very überstürtzt, because the ticket was the bad news from home at already. This was my material before me - what should be wärhend my absence from this? "I gave everything to my Swiss colleagues Jucker and recommended him to design it into a table lamp. It seemed to me that the size of the milk glass globe is how to create this one of the glass tube could possibly as foot, thick round glass top may serve as a footprint. Moholy-Nagy also knew about my proposal, which included and was soon realized. But never I had once believed that this collective work could be once so famous and respected. " By contrast, Carl Jacob Jucker, of 1922 (after completion of a silversmith's doctrine was still on the left) at the Zurich School of Applied Arts to Bauhaus writes, the glass bulb itself. "Purely by year" would be the version Paps "quite likely", but it was "pure fiction," said Jucker, 1983 in a letter to the Bauhaus-Archiv. Marcel Breuer in collaboration he had created the glass bulb for the model house exhibition in 1923. However, the first copy issued a silk parachute had that instead of the glass dome, as these by Schott & Gen. Were not delivered on time and arrived only after the opening date was. "When the right glass dome in Jena and precisely fitted, the lamp was not there long, but wandered into the old building on the desk of Gropius." The idea for the glass bulb came to him while working on another table lamp (pictured right): This show six table lamps, whose foot and shaft of the final form are very close, but they lack the characteristic bell-glass. Instead, we experimented with umbrellas and hats in fabric, hinged and mirrored reflector bulbs. One of these lamps, which has a movable reflector and a mirrored bulb ü ber shortened shaft, published in 1925 is depicted in the publication "New works by the Bauhaus workshops." In the caption of a table lamp where the speech is to be referred to as designers and Jucker in 1923 as a draft year. As Jucker in September 1923 left the Bauhaus, was The final shape of the glass bulb probably not yet been found. Only now Wagenfeld came on the scene. The most important change concerned the glass dome: You lay a whole lot deeper than the shades of the lamps on the photographs of 1923. The intricate design history may be best to address by Pap with a "collective work" speaks. This is with even greater justification than that of Jucker mentioned co-Breuer or influences from the two master Moholy-Nagy and Christian Dell in the already difficult reconstruction of the history can not even be considered. It should remain
that a unilateral identification of the "Bauhaus lamp passes" with the name and work Wagenfeld the facts of their design history and the significant contribution suppresses Jucker (right) (1907-1997).
that a unilateral identification of the "Bauhaus lamp passes" with the name and work Wagenfeld the facts of their design history and the significant contribution suppresses Jucker (right) (1907-1997).
[from aus Die Bauhauslampe von Thomas Heyden Bauhaus-Archiv Dieter Reimer Verlag Berlin 1992.]
