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In 1919 the School of Arts and
Crafts and the Academy of Fine Arts
Weimar were brought together to the
Federal Bauhaus Weimar. The Bauhaus
set itself the target to reform the
artistic education for the purpose
of uniting fine arts and applied
arts and crafts to a combined
contemporary working environment.
The traditional education at the
academies had led to an increasing
and growing distance between
artistry on one hand and the needs
and requirements of a modern
industrialised society on the other
hand. The products that were created
by the modern industry for
the mass society, would not
correspond to the general aesthetic
requirements of the time.
At the Bauhaus, there was not only
laid stress on proving new
art-educational concepts, but a new
doctrine in architecture and also
aesthetical norms for industrial
products for the living area had
been elaborated.
From the beginning the education at
the Bauhaus with its
interdisciplinary training, the
workshop concept as well as the
campus-system and the participation
in the management of the institution
from side of the students, aimed at
an educational contribution for a
new society, which at that time was
seen as a socialist perspective,
even if not all artists involved in
the Bauhaus Movement shared these
political attitudes.
In no more than 14 years (1919-1933)
the Bauhaus established itself as
one of the most important style
defining institutions and one of the
most important chapters of the
history of art, architecture and
culture of the 20th Century.
Wolfgang Tümpel was born in
Bielefeld in 1903. After his
apprenticeship as a goldsmith and
accompanying studies, he began his
studies at the Bauhaus in Weimar in
1922. He attended the lessons of
Johannes Itten, Paul Klee and Naum
Slutzky. In 1924, he was accepted at
the metal workshop where at that
time Lázló Moholy-Nagy was the head
of the department. Besides his
studies, Tümpel was employed at the
stage studio of Oskar Schlemmer.
After the closing of the Bauhaus in
Weimar, Wolfgang Tümpel continued
his education at the Academy for
Arts and Crafts in Halle and in 1927
he founded his first own "Atelier
for Vessels, Jewellery, Lighting".
In 1929, he moved to Cologne and in
1933 to Bielefeld. In the same year
the severally awarded Tümpel passed
the examination for the master
craftsman's certificate, at which
point he was already a recognised
member of the German Werkbund.
The exhibition is dedicated to his
creations in jewellery design, but
also to his ideas as an industrial
designer, for silver tea sets and
mocha sets of the 1920ties and
again the 1960ties, candelabra,
altar furniture and jewellery that
stand next to serial productions
for the industry as table lamps
and the famous Tchibo Jar.
Wolfgang Tümpel never reached a
moment of standstill, he steadily
searched for new creative
principles for the "ultimate
shape", that should be independent
of time, modern but not
fashionable. Wolfgang Tümpels
first individual exhibition in
Vienna means taking a bow before
an internationally highly attended
work of a lifetime.
Exhibition folder as download (PDF 502 KB)
WOLFGANG TÜMPEL
SILVERSMITH AND BAUHAUS ARTIST
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| Duration of the Exhibitio |
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July 4 through September 2, 2006 |
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Mon, Tue, Wed and Fri
8 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Thu 8 a.m. to 5.30 p.m
NEW: Saturday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
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| Information |
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www.ottowagner.com/museum |
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| Entrance |
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Main Banking Hall:
Free Entrance to the Special Exhibition!
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| Museum WAGNER:WERK |
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Entrance Fee: Euro 5.00
Euro 3,50 reduced fee for
students, senior citizens and groups
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| Free entrance |
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Bank customers of BAWAG P.S.K. on exhibit of customer card
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| Curator |
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Hildegard Wiewelhove |
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| Concept and Organisation |
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Monika Wenzl-Bachmayer |
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| Catalogue |
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WOLFGANG TÜMPEL. 1903 – 1978
Ein Bauhauskünstler aus Bielefeld
Hrsg. Hildegard Wiewelhove
Mit Beiträgen von Gabriele Koller, Susanne Längle,
Gerhard Renda, Wolfgang Tümpel, Hildegard
Wiewelhove; deutsch, 96 Seiten, 193 Abb.
Kunstgewerbesammlung der Stadt Bielefeld
Stiftung Huelsmann, 2003, ISBN 3-9805831-5-5
Special price during the exhibition € 12,00
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