Biography

Hin Bredendieck (Aurich 1904 - 1995 Roswell, GA) The industrial designer (and educator) Hin Bredendieck rebelled against traditional art early on during his carpentry apprenticeship. He found his equal and enrolled as a student at the Bauhaus in 1927. He started his work in the metal workshop, became an employee of the workshop in 1929 and was responsible for the cooperation with the company Körting & Mathiesen in Leipzig. Together with Marianne Brandt, he designed desk and bedside lamps for serial production; he later refined this new mass production technique at B.A.G. Turgi, Switzerland. In cooperation with Sigfried Giedion he developed modern lighting fixtures. In 1937 Laszlo Moholy-Nagy brought him to the New Bauhaus in Chicago, where he developed new pedagogical methods of approaching materials and technology. As the first director of the Dep. of Industrial Design at the Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1952 he introduced a course that included the entire design process from initial conception to machine realization.

Objects by Hin Bredendieck