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Lot 316 Dα

Light "Typenklubsessel" armchair

Auction 1193 - overview Berlin
07.05.2022, 11:00 - The Prussian Sale & Berlin Salon
Estimate: 6.000 € - 9.000 €

Light "Typenklubsessel" armchair

Bog oak, alder, beech, pine, spring upholstery with the original rust red cloth covers. With the round brand stamp of the Staatliche Bauhochschule Weimar, round brand stamp "ED". The original covers with repairs, a consolidated hole in the front right of the seat, a small repair to the wood of the left armrest, overall in a museum quality state of preservation. H 70, W 62, D 81 cm.
Produced by the Staatliche Bauhochschule in Weimar, designed by Erich Dieckmann, 1926/27.

This armchair belongs to the type of furniture brought out by Dieckmann based on a simple cubic-geometric understanding of form and space, which was to be practically adapted to the new apartment buildings of the 1920s and the resulting living conditions.

The great designer Erich Dieckmann (1896 - 1944) was honored this year with exhibitions in Halle and Berlin. The locations in Halle are the Kunststiftung Sachsen-Anhalt and the Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule, in Berlin the Kunstgewerbemuseum and the Kunstbibliothek der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin. The exhibition at the SMB Museum of Decorative Arts, entitled "Chairs. Dieckmann. The forgotten Bauhäusler Erich Dieckmann" will open on 7th May.

Provenance

Presumably originally from the Villa Sonnenhaus in Lichtenfels.
From an important European private collection.

Literature

Cf. a similar design in: Zeitschrift für gestaltende Arbeit, 4/1929, p. 119, with explicit reference to the use of bog oak for the furnishings for Otto Bamberger in Lichtenfels.
Cf. Erich Dieckmann Möbelbau in Holz Rohr und Stahl, Stuttgart 1931, p. 49 and p. 90, no. 72.
A further example in the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, inv. no. 2011.320. The heavy "Typenklubsessel" armchair can be found, for example in the Klassik-Stiftung Weimar, inv. no. N 1/93b and the GRASSI Museum für Angewandte Kunst Leipzig.