Ulm School of Design

The Ulm School of Design ( Ulm School ) was founded in 1953 by Inge Aicher -Scholl, Otl Aicher, Max Bill and others in Ulm and existed until 1968. Considered the most important international design school after Bauhaus. International, she enjoyed an excellent reputation and was a pioneer and role model both for future design courses at colleges of design, as well as for the profession of Dipl.- Designer.

History

The years 1945-1952 were marked by Konzipierungs, financing and structuring plans. Through contacts Bills to Walter Gropius U.S. foundations on the project were attentive. The Allied High Commissioner John McCloy supported the initiative to HfG foundation as Project No. 1 HfG should receive a college -like campus on the U.S. model, so that the members of the university were able to live together teacher and learner in free union. John McCloy presented Inge Scholl in 1952, shortly before his departure as High Commissioner to a check for one million DM Today is suspected that the money that had McCloy presented came from a foundation whose funds uses have been coordinated for cultural policy purposes by the CIA.

Official carrier of the future HfG should be the Scholl Foundation, which was founded by Inge Scholl in memory of her siblings Sophie and Hans Scholl. This had been executed as members of the resistance group White Rose in 1943 by the Nazis. On April 1, 1953, Max Bill, first rector of the newly founded university.

On August 3, 1953, the teaching began at the premises of Ulm Community College. Josef Albers, Walter Peterhans, Johannes Itten and Helene Nonne -Schmidt taught the first 21 students. The training was run for four years. In the first year of undergraduate studies took place, the other three years served to deepen in the fields of designers for product design, visual communication, construction, information (up to 1964) and film, which was located until 1961 in visual communication, and from 1962 as a separate subject area was continued. With this concept, the teaching methods and content of future professional image design were developed.

On September 8, 1953, the groundbreaking ceremony for the construction of the HfG complex on the " Upper Cow Mountain " to a design by Max Bill was. The HfG was there one of the first Stahlbetonskelettbauten Germany with spacious workshops, dormitory and refectory. The interior and the furniture were designed for flexible use of the university. On 5 July 1954, the topping-out ceremony was celebrated. From 1955 onwards, the teaching took place in the premises of the HfG. The official opening of the classroom building took place on October 2, 1955, gave the opening speech at the Walter Gropius. Today the premises are part of the University Hospital, Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy.

1955 Max Bill resigned for reasons of direction change in the educational structure and the courses of the HfG as rector and left this in 1957 for the same reasons. Bill favored a continuation of the Bauhaus model, other teachers wanted a more oriented to science and theory training model. A Rectorate was used, among them Otl Aicher.

1958, the first issue of the magazine HfG " ulm ", which was published until the end of the university in German and English. The public was in 1959 by radio and television on the HfG attention after previously accumulated in the years faculty and students first success with the design for the audio equipment Braun, the appearance of Lufthansa and the trains of the Hamburg elevated railway, the reputation of the HfG impressed. After seven years Rectorate joined in 1962 a new constitution for the HfG in force again provided for a sole principal. The choice fell on Otl Aicher. 1963 was the university, the facilities of Siemens Electronic Music Studio given that had been shorted previously for cost reasons.

Internal disputes concerning the pedagogical orientation of the teaching activities of the university gave the press in 1963 first opportunities for attacks against the HfG. The Landtag of Baden- Württemberg presented a 10-point ultimatum to the HfG came in, bringing the grants were secured by the Province. Nevertheless, the problems piled up after the state legislature in 1967, the annexation of the HfG to the Engineering School, the forerunner of the University of Applied Sciences demanded. Federal subsidies were removed, the financial situation more difficult.

During the year 1968, the first had to lay off teachers and the number of courses are limited due to the difficult financial situation. The Scholl Foundation, the carrier HfG was deeply in debt. Internal dissensions and attacks in the press prompted repeatedly debates in Parliament on the eligibility of HfG. The remaining faculty denied the teaching of financial and personal reasons. After the state government had set of Baden-Württemberg, grants for HfG, presented the foundation launched the operation of the university in November.

As the first institution took over the 1970 College renamed College of Design in Offenbach am Main, large parts of the teaching concept of the Ulm School of Design. After Ulm, she was the only college that was being taken by the Bauhaus School of Design designation. Later followed other educational establishments.

In order to allow the remaining students a degree, the "Institute for Environmental Planning Ulm " Stuttgart University was founded. Several lecturers were appointed temporary. After the students had a degree, the Institute budget was transferred to the University of Stuttgart and served in part to the establishment of the beginning in 1973 led by Horst Rittel " Institute of Basic planning ".

Ulm School today

The former building of the HfG belong today to the University of Ulm. The Institute for Media Research and Media Development (IMM ) is the last " remnants " of the HfG. At the IMM documentation " Design for millions " was released et al 2003.

HfG Archive Ulm

The city of Ulm founded in 1987 in the former buildings of the HfG HfG Archive. The initiative for this came from former members of the College of Design, which in the club off ulm ev had joined forces and gathered archival HfG. The archive has the purpose of documenting the history of the HfG comprehensively. This is intended contents and importance of their work made ​​available to the general public.

The HfG Archive organizes this exchange exhibitions and symposia, and produces publications. 1993 HfG Archive was annexed to the Ulmer Museum as a separate department and shown its own permanent exhibition on the history and development of HfG in the Ulmer Museum. Since autumn 2013 a new permanent exhibition on the history of the Ulm School of Design is presented in the rooms of the HfG archive.

The HfG Archive features in addition to numerous archival materials using the historical library of the former college, and a collection of current books and magazines design history. These are publicly available as a reference library.

Lecturers HfG

  • Otl Aicher
  • Josef Albers
  • Bruce Archer, design theorists, Industrial Designer
  • Max Bill (1953-1957)
  • Gui Bonsiepe
  • Anthony Froshaug (1957-1961)
  • Hans Gugelot
  • Johannes Itten
  • Herbert W. Kapitzki (1962-1968)
  • Hanno Kesting, a sociologist
  • Alexander Kluge
  • Martin staples
  • Helmut Lachenmann
  • Tomás Maldonado
  • Thomas Mauch, cinematographer, screenwriter, film director and producer
  • Josef Müller- Brockmann
  • Helene Nonne -Schmidt (1953-1958)
  • Abraham Moles
  • Herbert Ohl (1955-1968)
  • Walter Peterhans
  • Erich Friedrich Podach
  • Harry Pross, journalism scholars
  • Edgar Reitz
  • Horst Rittel, mathematicians
  • Claude Schnaidt architectural historian and theorist, head of the Building Department and was recently Vice-Rector of the HfG
  • Vordemberge - Gildewart
  • Werner Wirsing (1967-1968)
  • Walter Zeischegg, sculptor, designer (1951-1968)
  • Hermann von Baravalle

Lectureships at the HfG

  • Kurd Alsleben, lecturer in structural theory and Boolean algebra
  • Nicolaus Sombart, sociologist and writer (1962 )
  • Konrad Wachsmann, Industrial Building (1954-1957)
  • Horst H. Baumann, photography and color (1963-1964)
  • Peter Cornelius, product photography, color feature (1963-1968)

Students and graduates

  • Giovanni Anceschi
  • Claudia von Alemann
  • Bernhard E. Bürdek
  • Jochen Claussen Finch
  • Gerhard Curdes
  • Hermann precious
  • Walter Eichenberger
  • Heiner Jacob
  • Günther Hörmann
  • Hans von Klier
  • Hans -Joachim Krietsch
  • Klaus Krippendorff
  • Realty Krumrey
  • Herbert Lindinger
  • Ekhard mouse
  • Almir Mavignier
  • Jeanine Meerapfel
  • Ernest Muchenberger
  • Rolf Müller
  • Alexander Neumeister
  • Ferdinand Alexander Porsche (two semesters, no degree)
  • Dieter Raffler
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