Alexander Neumeister
Alexander Neumeister ( born December 17, 1941 in Berlin) is a specialized technique to design German designer.
Known to a wide audience were designed by him rail vehicles, including several series of ICE, Shinkansen and the Transrapid.
Career
Neumeister lived during his school days in Wilhelmshaven and Stuttgart. At the age of 15, he completed an exchange year at the Boise, Idaho ( he lived there with relatives ). In 1962, he earned a high school. This was followed by internships at Schenk ( a vehicle manufacturer ), Robert Bosch and Behr furniture. Plans to study at the Illinois Institute of Technology, failed due to high tuition fees.
Subsequently, from 1963 to 1968, Neumeister studied industrial design at the Hochschule für Gestaltung Ulm. Among his teachers there included Walter and Hans Zeischegg Gugelot. In 1964 he created the first design work, in 1966 he won the first prize in the international design competition in the Carrozzeria Bertone. As part of his thesis Neumeister designed a SUV in modular construction.
After winning the Bertone design price, Neumeister received offers from Audi, Mercedes and MBB. In the last semester of his studies Neumeister started as a consultant at MBB. He worked with, among others, the early concepts for rail high-speed trains in Germany, including the high- speed rail study. For a one-year DAAD study at the Tokyo University of Arts ( Japan), he was released in 1968 and 1969 by employment at MBB.
In 1970 he founded the design office Neumeister Design (since 2000 Neumeister & Partner since 2006 N P Industrial Design GmbH), with a focus on new transport systems, medical technology and data technology. Between 1976 and 1979 he was a lecturer in industrial design at the University of Munich.
From 1983 to 1985, Neumeister board member of ICSID, responsible for portfolio design and the Third World. From 1985 to 1987 he was vice-president of the organization.
In 1988 he founded together with Ângela Carvalho and Celso Santos office NCS Design Rio in Rio de Janeiro. According to the company, this was the first German -Brazilian design team. In 2003 he retired from the joint venture.
End of January 2012 gave Neumeister his office shares to its partners, Christiane Bausback and Andreas Bergsträßer.
Work
Among the best known works include the Neumeister he designed rail vehicles. Among other things, he designed test vehicles of the Transrapid. From an ongoing since 1990 collaboration with Hitachi, among others, the design of the Japanese Shinkansen high-speed train 500 as well as designs of high-speed, regional and metro trains emerged.
Known in Germany is especially developed by him exterior design of the ICE. When ICE precursor InterCityExperimental and the ICE 3 and ICE T he spearheaded in the design, in other ICE generations a part of his proposals was implemented. In 1982 he had obtained in the form of a contract for design studies for the design of the intermediate cars of the ICE precursor train, the first design job in the ICE section. The characteristic features of ICE developed by him (red- white livery, continuous band of windows, streamlined snouts ) implemented in all five ICE series.
Neumeister has also developed the design of regional trains of Deutsche Bahn as the Bombardier Talent and the Siemens Desiro trains as well as from hotel and light rail. For the Munich transport company he created from 1996 on the design of new vehicles of type MVG C of the Munich subway. He also designed the interiors of new trains of the Munich tram.
In addition, he designed numerous technical devices, including magnetic card reader, time attendance terminals for businesses, video conferencing systems, televisions and phones. Another focus of his work is the medical technology, such as laser, dental equipment, lithotripter and radiation equipment.
Its walls of Neumeister ships include the passenger ship MS 2000 ( around 1988 ), which can accommodate about 1,000 passengers and is on Lake Thun and Lake Brienz go. Since July 1998 on Lake Constance between Friedrichshafen and novel horn in use is designed by Neumeister Euregia ferry, with a capacity of 700 passengers and 300 tons of payload.
Neumeister coordinated, together with his divorced wife, between 1975 and 1985, the working group design for developing countries, the design workshops in Indonesia and the Philippines planned and organized.
Awards
Neumeister has received numerous national and international design awards.
In 1971 he won 1st place in the international design competition table 80 in Hamburg, in 1973 followed the 1st place in the office furniture competition of Gesika. The instrumental he designed InterCityExperimental in 1987 received the Brunel Award, one after the English engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel named, international design award for rail vehicles. In 1991 he was awarded the Design Prize Switzerland in the category of products, in 1992 the Award Design Team of the Year by the Design Center North Rhine -Westphalia. 1998 saw the Eisa Award for Fine Arts instrument line Grundig.
For the design of the Shinkansen 500 Neumeister received, in addition to other stakeholders and the 1999 Grand Prize - the second highest category of These annual Imperial Inventor Award (Imperial Invention Prize ) by the Japanese Institute of Invention and Innovation. For the first time the prize was awarded to a foreigner here. The design of the ICE T was, as well as (later) the ICE 3 received the Federal Product Design Award. For the design of the built from 2000 Munich U -Bahn trains of the C series, he received the International Design Award Baden -Württemberg in 2001.
In November 2011 he was awarded the Design Prize of the city of Munich, " for its unique and exemplary work in the field of industrial design ".
The co-developed by Neumeister Design of the Munich U -Bahn - series C2 was in February 2013 awarded the Universal Design Award and in July 2013 with the Red dot design award.
In the stamp block design in Germany in 1999, Deutsche Post, he was represented with the Transrapid design.
Private life
Neumeister's father worked in the fashion and film industry.
Neumeister was married from 1969 to 1995 and is the father of two daughters. He has been living in Munich in 1970 and spends about half the year in Brazil. Right now ( June 2011) he is married to a Brazilian.