Wilhelm Wagenfeld House

The Wilhelm- Wagenfeld House is a widely used cultural institution in Bremen, in which only the subject design is treated. It lies on the eastern edge of the district immediately adjacent to the Old Town Art Gallery in the ramparts on the road to Am Wall, which is also known as a "cultural mile" in this section.

Use

It serves as an exhibition and event platform of Bremen Economic Development ( WFB ) and carries the seat of the Wilhelm- Wagenfeld Foundation and Bremer Design GmbH, which is part of the WFB and also based there Bremen Design Centre. As Sponsors of the house the Society for product design eV Bremen acts ( GPP ). International importance and notoriety comes to the institution, since the foundation there administers the estate of the internationally renowned product designer Wilhelm Wagenfeld. This - as well as the works of other artists - are in two-storey exhibition wing presents to about 330 square meters of surface presentation in changing shows of work by the public in front of the building. In this integrated space is a lecture room. Based on its extensive collections and its archive, the foundation conducts research also has relationships of the design history and is engaged in the study of complex problems of the design and manufacture of industrial products in the exchange ratio for each environment. In lectures and other events at the Wilhelm Wagenfeld Haus current and historical developments and trends are addressed in the design field. Regularly to check out the University of the Arts Bremen Project and Theses from.

History

The premises of the museum have a long history of building. In 1823 they were built together with the Gerhard- Marcks-Haus on the opposite side of the road after plans by Friedrich Moritz tribe as a classical ensemble of gatehouse guard and Detention building Ostertorwache. The building is a historical monument since 1973.

1988 offered Wagenfeld his estate to the Senate of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen. After his death, moved two years later moved 1992, the GAP (then Centre for product design ) in the now named after the Künstlerhaus before September 15, 1993, the Wilhelm- Wagenfeld Foundation established by resolution of the Bremen City Parliament. In March 1998, finally opened its doors to the public exhibition area.