bauhaus years

Wilhelm Wagenfeld enrolled to study metal and glass at the Bauhaus under the guidance of László Moholy-Nagy. Wagenfeld’s most iconic design came during his first year of studies; in collaboration with his teacher Carl J. Jucker, Wilhelm created the “MT9” table lamp, universally known as the “Wagenfeld lamp”. A simple globe of opaline glass and a shaft of nickel-plated steel, this legendary piece is still produced today.

Building of the School of Art in Weimar

Building of the School of Art in Weimar. Photo by Louis Held, around 1911. © Klassik Stiftung Weimar.

the simpler an industrial product, the harder it to make, because simplicity comes from a degree of self-assuredness on the part of the designer.  —wilhelm wagenfeld

Wilhelm Wagenfeld smoking his pipe, looking sideways

Wilhelm Wagenfeld, 1949. Photo: courtesy of Wilhelm Wagenfeld Stiftung.

 

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