Wolfgang von Wersin

Wolfgang von Wersin ( born December 3, 1882 in Prague, † June 13, 1976 in Bad Ischl ) was a German architect and designer.

Life

After studying painting 1900-1901 in Prague he moved to Munich, where he graduated in architecture in 1904. While studying architecture, he studied from 1902 to 1905 also painting at the Teaching and Research workshop on Applied and Free Art in Munich, where he worked as a teacher after his military service from 1906. His wife Herthe (1888-1971), he studied at the school know. She worked as an illustrator and also illustrated one of his books.

Since 1912 he worked for the Germans workshops. He worked here with exhibition architecture and provided designs for furniture, fabrics, wallpaper and ceramics.

The design of a dinner service for the magistrate of Munich, which was produced in 1928 at the Nymphenburg Porcelain Manufactory, introduced him and so he took over in 1929 the management of the Department of Commercial Art at the Bavarian National Museum in Munich; his dismissal in September 1933 was carried out for political reasons.

Besides his work as director of the museum from 1932 he designed for Nymphenburg dinnerware shapes Adonis, Helios and lotus.

In the period 1936-1938 he designed the tableware for Rosenthal and Helena form for the porcelain manufactory Thomas in Marktredwitz (acquired in 1908 by Rosenthal) the service Ariadne. In 1946 he participated in the founding of the Upper Austrian Werkbund, which he was president until his death. He taught at the Art School of the City of Linz, 1956, he published his book by the rectangle in which he grappled with the application of different rectangular shapes in architecture and design. He distinguished between square Hemidiagon, Trion, Quadriagon, Biauron, Penton, Diagon, Bipenton, Hemiolion, Auron, Sixton and double square.

Work

Exhibitions

  • From arts and crafts to industrial design. Exhibition at the Villa Stuck, Munich, from October 30 to December 8, 1991; German Werkbund V., from January 31 to April 26, 1992 in collaboration with the Museum of Arts and Crafts, Frankfurt, Main; Schloß Pillnitz, Dresden, from 16 May to 30 August 1992.
  • Wolfgang von Wersin, 1882-1976. Design and product development. City Museum Linz Nordico in cooperation with the collection, Munich: 7 to 30 April 1983. Art Yearbook of Linz. In 1983.

Publications

  • The elemental ornament and its legality. A morphology of the ornament. (Recordings of Walter Müller- Grah text drawings of Herthe of Wersin ) Otto Maier Verlag, Ravensburg 1953.
  • The Book of the rectangle - Law and gestures of spatial. Otto Maier Verlag, Ravensburg 1956, ISBN 3-781403-20-3.
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