Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach

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The College of Design is an art high school in Offenbach am Main. The college has 600 students, 66 staff, including 22 professors and 15 teachers for special assignments and academic staff.

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Study

For the conclusion of the zehnsemestrigen studies graduate designers are five disciplines to choose from: art, communication design, media, stage and costume design department of visual communication and product design [in the same department ].

In addition, the college offers a two-semester, project-based, postgraduate studies. Visual communication and product design.

Since the summer semester 2010 are available at the Offenbach College of Design, the possibility for a science with art and design verschränkenden model for Dr. phil. to graduate. There are the professional orientations of Art and Media Studies or Science of Design.

History

Today's College of Design Offenbach am Main was founded in 1832 by surveyor George Fink trade school. They merged in 1877 with the School of Art and Industry to the Technical schools in Offenbach am Main (English: Offenbach Institute of Technical Education ) with the fields of engineering, construction and decorative arts. 1883, published in The Cyclopædia of Education included the school to the important educational institutions of their area in Europe. 1885 the new building was based on Mathildenplatz, which soon proved to be too small ( it is now used by the police).

Heyday as " Offenbacher school"

From 1908 Dominic Böhm taught at the HfG in Offenbach 1919 his first church built ( as the first " modern " church at all). A donation of manufacturer Mayer Ludo allowed in 1910 a new building for the school and the move to the present building, which was designed by Director Hugo Eberhardt. From the collection of teaching resources was 1917, the German Leather Museum forth. From 1879 to 1920 Charles Brockmann worked at the school, who introduced the focus of design patterns for the industry ( " pattern makers " ), which corresponds to the product design in about today. It sought a " works suitable material treatment " to. Ernst Engel, a graphic artist at the school, initiated in the 1930s, the cooperation of Eberhardt and the designer and type designer Rudolf Koch. 1925, appointed to the textile designers Isolde Czóbel and Maria Steudel as the first professors at the school.

In the world economic crisis, the resources of the country, and the concept of unity of industry and art exhausted ( the forerunner of the design ) could not hold out against the policy. The school had to give only the areas of interior design, sculpture and decorative painting at Mainz. After the death of Rudolf Koch 1934, the profile was lost, the Hugo Eberhardt had given the institution, and had been a Offenbacher school in the world for use of materials and academic attitude.

Decline by yielding departments during the Nazi era and the postwar period

The Nazis ordered the release of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Darmstadt and named the school in order to master school of Craftsmen, so this was actually demoted to the vocational school and shared the fate of the Städel School. After 1945, the school Offenbacher Werkkunstschule was called. Begun under the Nazis Distance academic departments continued. Now it met the Department of Architecture, who had distinguished himself internationally especially with the training of church architects. At the HfG architects had not as Dipl. -Ing. graduated, but as in other art schools in Germany as a graduate architect. At this time, the professional title of architect was not protected in Germany. After the end of the 1960 years, beginning in 1970 - year architectural associations have been established throughout Germany, reached this the professional title of architect to the membership in a chamber of architects to bind and therefore could not be assigned the traditional academic degrees. After various periods of the Faculty definitely went to the Technical University of Darmstadt and at the HfG September 30, 1983.

Reconstitution as a university after 1970

1970 was converted into an art academy in the state of Hesse, at the same time acted as a first after closure of the Ulm School of Design whose prestigious title of " School of Design " ( the previously used the Bauhaus ) and used a large part of the teaching concept. The success has meant that now the term " HfG " has prevailed almost as a generic term, and have called HfG other schools. In 1986 he managed Kurt Steinel ( Rector of HfG of 1974-94 ), re- establish professorships in the fields of sculpture and painting, after they have been saved from the country from 1934. First professor of sculpture was the Swiss Vincenzo Baviera.

The Faculty of product design was from the 1970s, the theory of product language, the so-called " Offenbacher approach " developed. This allows for evaluation and design of products according to formal, symbolic and semantic aspects. In 2006, the institute for technology-orientated design innovation was founded at the HfG.

Location and building

The university is located in the Rhine -Main region, which has a high design clustering, including in automotive design. The campus is located in the immediate vicinity of the Main, and a few meters from the college is located in the south wing of the Busing -Palais on the Herrnstraße the Klingspor - Museum of typography and book arts.

The college campus consists of three blocks, which are grouped around the Schlossplatz:

• Built in 1576 Isenburg Castle
• The 1909-1913 designed by Hugo Eberhardt main building
• The 2003 newly constructed West Wing, designed by Reuter Werr

The present main building, built in 1909-1913 by Hugo Eberhardt as the new Technical College in historicizing architecture form that is situated on Palace Square opposite the Isenburg Castle. It was built as a two-wing, courtyard-type structure with an archway over the castle road. Different railings, capitals, etc. in the building should be a model for the architecture students are (they are to this day ). The building was heavily damaged in World War II. After 1945, followed by a reconstruction, under strong protests from traditionalists who wanted to demolish the building to restore the view of the city towards the Castle. The completely destroyed roof region - originally an articulated by dormers and tower hoods steep hipped roof - was replaced by a flat floor. Although this additional, fully satisfying usable floor the original overall architectural appearance of the building and the formal language Eberhardt was created, but severely impaired. Thus, the original architectural dialogue with the neighboring Isenburg Castle is only incompletely experienced today. In rebuilding new unit windows were installed and the oval window except one (the space would otherwise have none) bricked. This intervention was undone with the renovation in 2003, as part of a facade renovation back windows were installed with center window frame.

Since the beginning of the summer semester 2011, the HfG also uses a building Geleitstraße 103 ⊙ 50.101718.7537 There are accommodated:

• The Department of Art ( Sculpture, Experimental spatial concepts, drawing and painting),
• Professor of graphic design and illustration,
• The basic teaching of visual communication,
• The institute for technology-orientated design innovation ( ITD).

Library

The University has an extensive library of design, art, architecture. The library and media library are publicly available and also can be searched online, the magazine with historical books are not.