Hin Bredendieck: From Aurich to Atlanta

Hardback

Main Details

Title Hin Bredendieck: From Aurich to Atlanta
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Gloria Kopnick
By (author) R. Stamm
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:288
Dimensions(mm): Height 280,Width 240
Category/GenreExhibition catalogues and specific collections
Individual designers
ISBN/Barcode 9783777434636
ClassificationsDewey:745.4092
Audience
General
Illustrations 200 Illustrations, unspecified

Publishing Details

Publisher Hirmer Verlag
Imprint Hirmer Verlag
Publication Date 13 August 2020
Publication Country Germany

Description

Hin Bredendieck (1904-1995) graduated from the Bauhaus and was a versatile designer and pioneering teacher of design. His outstanding oeuvre and his worldwide network testify to the international significance of his work and ideas. This lavishly illustrated, high-qualitymonograph introduces in detail the life and work of Hin Bredendieck. Hin Bredendieck's life and work are an example of success, emigration and the international propagation of the design ideas developed at the Bauhaus. A native of Aurich in East Friesland, he was a student at the Bauhaus in Dessau from 1927 to 1930. In 1937 he emigrated to the United States, where he was appointed as a teacher at the New Bauhaus Chicago. As the founding director of the Institute for Industrial Design at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, he became one of the most influential mediators of Bauhaus ideas in America in the post-war years.

Author Biography

Gloria Koepnick is an art historian at the Landesmuseum fur Kunst und Kulturgeschichte in Oldenburg, Germany.