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Ingo Maurer
German industrial designer (–)
Ingo Maurer (12 May – 21 October ) was a German industrial designer who specialised in the design of lamps and light installations. He was nicknamed "poet of light".[1][2]
Life
Maurer was born in Reichenau Island, Lake Constance, Germany,[3] and was the son of a fisherman and grew up there with four siblings.
After an apprenticeship as typesetter, he studied graphic design in Munich.[3] In Maurer left Germany for the U.S., where he worked in New York and San Francisco as a freelance graphic designer, including for IBM.[4] In , he moved back to Germany, founding Design M, a company developing and manufacturing lamps after his own designs.[4] The company was later renamed to "Ingo Maurer GmbH".[3] One of his first designs, the Bulb (), was included in the design collection of the Museum of Modern Art in [3]
In he presented the low-voltage wire system YaYaHo, consisting of two horizontally fixed metal ropes and a series of adjustable lighting elements with halogen bulbs;[3] it became an instant success.
Maurer was asked to create special YaYaHo installations for the exhibition "Lumières je pense à vous" ("Lights I think of you") at Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, the Villa Medici in Rome, and the Institut Francais d'Architecture in Paris.[4]
In Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain (Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art) in Jouy-en-Josas near Paris organized the exhibition "Ingo Maurer: Lumière Hasard Réflexion" (Ingo Maurer: Light Chance Reflection).
Ingo maurer biography of rory allen Nobuhiro Watsuki. Laurenzo His first, famous design statement was Bulb , the iconic luminaire pays homage to the humble light bulb and turns it into a table lamp. Best of Our round-ups feature the best architecture, design, interiors and pavilions of the year. Article Talk.For this exhibition, Maurer created lighting objects and installations that were not meant for serial production for the first time.[4]
Since , his design and objects have been presented in a series of exhibitions, including the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam (). In the Vitra Design Museum organized Ingo Maurer – Light – Reaching for the Moon, a travelling exhibition with several shows in Europe and in Japan.
In the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York presented the exhibition Provoking Magic: Lighting of Ingo Maurer.
Maurer created many objects using LEDs. The first was the lighting object Bellissima Brutta in In he presented a table lamp with LEDs with the name Since , he is also experimenting with organic light-emitting diodes, presenting two objects in , and a table lamp as limited edition.[4]
Besides the design of lamps for serial production, Ingo Maurer created and planned light installation for public or private spaces.
Ingo maurer biography of rory mcilroy It was a low voltage and suspension halogen system, in which all the elements are adjustable horizontally and vertically, for a total length of 32 feet. In the early '90s, with the " Lucellino" series , Maurer put his wings to light bulbs, in the true sense of the word with small fins of hand-made goose feathers, glass, brass and synthetic material decorated lamps that will always remain real works of art. He also developed a unique lighting system for fashion designer Issey Miyake's runway show in Paris upon the designer's request. Maurer was born in , on the island of Reichenau, Lake Constance, in southern Germany.In Munich, he created light installations at Westfriedhof subway station (), and the renovation and lighting concept for Münchner Freiheit U-Bahn station opened in December [3] For Issey Miyake he realised an installation for a fashion show in Paris ().[3] From –05 he designed an entrance and lighting objects for the Kruisherenhotel in Maastricht.
In he created lighting objects and installations for the interior of the Atomium in Brussels.[3]
Among his most well-known designs are the winged bulb Lucellino ()[4] and Porca Miseria! (),[5] a suspension lamp made with porcelain shards. From the early s on Maurer worked with a team of younger designers and developers.
In , the redesign for the underground area of the Marienplatz U-Bahn station in Munich, Germany, was awarded to Maurer with Allmann Sattler Wappner.
Ingo maurer biography of rory Contents move to sidebar hide. Zettel'z and Porca Miseria. Reichenau Island , Lake Constance , Germany. The New York Times.Ingo Maurer GmbH had two showrooms, one in Munich and the other in New York. He died in a Munich hospital on 21 October [1]
Maurer opposed the European Union's ban of incandescent light bulbs and predicted that it would cause a "drastic reduction in quality of life" and a "boom for psychiatrists."[6][7] He unsuccessfully advocated for declaring light bulbs as world cultural heritage.[8]
Awards
Literature
- Helmut Bauer (Editor): Ingo Maurer.
Making Light.Nazraeli Press, Portland
- Ingo Maurer (ed.): The International Design Yearbook Laurence King Publishing, London , p. (Essays by Philippe Starck, Ron Arad, Mario Bellini and Jasper Morrison)
- Alexander von Vegesack et al.; Ingo Maurer: Light – Reaching for the Moon.Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein
- Michael Webb, Jamee Ruth, Marisa Bartolucci (ed.): Ingo Maurer.
Compact Design Portfolio. Chronicle Books, San Francisco
- Kim Hastreiter et al.: Provoking Magic. Lighting of Ingo Maurer. Cooper-Hewitt Museum, New York