Typisch bremisch Typically “Bremish”

Das Wilhelm Wagenfeld Haus ist Sitz des Designzentrums in Bremen.
links: Wagenfeld-Leuchte von 1924
The Wilhelm Wagenfeld House accommodates Bremen Design Centre.
left: Wagenfeld lamp dated 1924
INNOVATIVE DESIGN
From the Wagenfeld lamp in Bauhaus style via the
“Goldene Kamera” statue through to Urbanscreen’s
projections: a look at Bremen’s creative industry with
the Überseestadt as its new focal point.
An evening stroll through parts of Bremen such as
Schwach hausen or the Gete district reveals the Wagenfeld
lamp in every second window. It is a part of design history,
closely associated with the Bauhaus school and the designer
Wilhelm Wagenfeld. Born in Bremen in 1900, the
product designer studied at Bauhaus in Weimar in 1923
after being a silver smith apprentice with Koch & Bergfeld
in Bremen. It was at Bauhaus in 1924 that he designed
the famous lamp together with his teacher László Moholy-
Nagy.
The timeless, classic design and the warm light exuded by
the opaque glass lampshade is popular not just with the
people of Bremen. For the company Tecnolumen founded
in Bremen in 1980, the Wagenfeld lamp with the product
designation WA 24 and WG 25 GL is a best-selling product
right through to the present day. Tecnolumen holds the
only licence worldwide to replicate the classic Bauhaus
lamp. Which still does not stop product pirates from