Education
Wagenfeld studied under the direction of László Moholy-Nagy in Bauhaus.
Wagenfeld studied under the direction of László Moholy-Nagy in Bauhaus.
He designed glass and metal works for the Jenaer Glaswerk Schott & General, the Vereinigte Lausitzer Glaswerke in Weißwasser, Rosenthal, Braun GmbH and WMF. Some of his designs are still produced until these days. He became an assistant at the Bauhochschule Weimar since 1925. One of his classics is a table lamp, known as Wagenfeld Lampe, 1924, which he designed together with Karl J. Jucker.
Thereto Crodel developed a patented decoration technique for the industrial mass production.
His famously stripped-down tea service, designed in 1938 in Hitler"s Germany, is still in production. Wagenfeld House, a brief walk from the Kunsthalle Bremen, is a museum dedicated to the work of the Bremen-born Bauhaus designer.
lieutenant was originally built in 1828 as a neoclassical jail, later used for interrogations by the Gestapo and, until the 1990s, offered crowded accommodation to unsuccessful asylum-seekers awaiting deportation. Wagenfeld House also houses the Design Center, which sponsors symposia and provides a forum for young designers.
There is a design school in Bremen named after him, the Wilhelm-Wagenfeld-Schule.
Wilhelm Wagenfeld"s grandson Malte Wagenfeld is senior lecturer and program director for industrial design at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University in Melbourne, Australia.
Akademie der Künste Berlin.