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Ingo Maurer
Born: 1932.\ Death: 2019.\ Known works: Knot lamp, Birdie lamp, BiBiBiBiBi lamp, Campari lamp, Zettel lamp and Johnny B. Butterfly lamp.\ Education: Graphic designer.
The fisherman's son Ingo Maurer grew up on the island of Reichenau in Lake Constance with his four siblings. Instead of following in his father's footsteps, it was an apprenticeship as a typographer followed by studying graphic design in Munich, Germany. The international design teeth had to be cut and that happened in 1960, when Maurer left Germany for the USA. He spent three years as a freelance graphic designer in New York and San Francisco before moving back to Germany in 1963.
The company Design M was founded here and the production of lamps based on its own designs began, later changing its name to Ingo Maurer as we know it today. One of the first lamps from 1966 called Bulb is in the design collection of the Museum of Modern Art.
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Ingo Maurer's design adventure
Introduced in 1984, YaYaHo is an exciting low-voltage system with a wide range of elements that allow great flexibility. The backbone is the two horizontal wires on which the elements are mounted, and the flexibility and highly sophisticated adjustment options helped cement the system's instant success. Maurer has installed YaYaHo systems for the exhibition Lumieres je pense et vous at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, Villa Medici in Rome and the Institut Francais d'Architecture in Paris.
It continued in 1989 with the Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain (Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art) in Jouy-en-Josas near Paris, when they organized an exhibition on Ingo Maurer. Lumière Hasard Reflexion, as the exhibition was called, was the first time that Ingo Maurer created lighting installations that were not intended for serial production.
Since 1989, a number of lamps, systems and installations have been presented in exhibitions, including the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam (1993), and the Vitra Design Museum organized the exhibition "Ingo Maurer - Light - Reaching for the Moon" in 2002, a traveling exhibition that visited Europe and Japan. The Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York presented the exhibition "Provoking Magic: Lighting of Ingo Maurer" in 2007.
Ingo Maurer never stands still when it comes to innovation, even on a technical level. There was halogen and LEDs, and now it's LEDs that are being happily incorporated. In addition to the 'normal' series-produced lamps, there are the projects on the side, and to this day, Ingo Maurer is at the forefront, although today he is assisted by his team of younger designers and developers.
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