Kaare Klint
Kaare Klint Jensen (* December 15, 1888 in Frederiksberg, † March 28, 1954 in Copenhagen) was a Danish architect and furniture designer.
Biography
Kaare Klint studied architecture under his father Peder V. Jensen Klint and Carl Petersen at the Copenhagen Academy and painting by Johann Rohde at Teknisk Skole. First neoclassical furniture he developed in 1914 in collaboration with Petersen for the art gallery in Faaborg. From 1917 he worked as a furniture designer and has worked for Fritz Hansen and Rudolf Rasmussen as well as for the Thorvaldsen and the Kunstindustrimuseet in Copenhagen.
Klint founded in 1924 at the Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Kopenhagendie the new department for " furniture design and interior design ." His pupils were among other Mogens Koch and Børge Mogensen. From 1944 Klint was Professor of Architecture. His style is characterized by a technically clear, simple and honest design language to the smallest detail. Its lines are justified simply and straight and often out of the material. Furniture is partially prefabricated, manufactured with high quality craftsmanship.
Work
Klint is considered one of the most influential of modern Scandinavian design and the "father of Danish furniture school". His particular interest was the ergonomics of its furniture. He tried as accurately as possible to adapt to the human proportions to which he already hired in 1913 first research and thus was the first designer who is seriously concerned with anthropology. Together with his students he also explored the workings of a piece of furniture that laid the foundation for the later Scandinavian style.
For the first popular chair of Klint designed for the Faaborg Museum Faaborg - chair of mahogany wood with a braided back and bovine leather upholstery for the seat was. The chair later, manufactured by Rasmussen deemed to be typical of the style Klint due to the synthesis of tradition and modernity. In 1933 Klint developed the functionalist safari chair made of ash wood, leather and cotton cloth, which was also foldable and adjustable in height as a prototype. In addition to these chairs to the classics Klint include the folding chair from 1927, the church chair 4133 of 1936 and the deck chair from 1936.
His work as an architect of the renovation of the hospital for Friedrich Museum of Art (now the Design Museum Danmark ) belonged to the early 1920s. In 1940 he completed the work of his late father Peder Klint at the Grundtvig.
Awards
In 1935 Klint for his work in the Grand Prix of the World's Fair Exposition universelle et international in Brussels, 1954, the CF Hansen medal.