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Ingo Maurer (– 21 October ) was a German industrial designer who specialised in the design of lamps and light installations.!
Biography.
Ingo Maurer
German industrial designer (–)
Ingo Maurer (12 May – 21 October ) was a German industrial designer who specialised in the design of lamps and light installations.
He was nicknamed "poet of light".[1][2]
Life
Maurer was born in Reichenau Island, Lake Constance, Germany,[3] and was the son of a fisherman and grew up there with four siblings.
After an apprenticeship as typesetter, he studied graphic design in Munich.[3] In Maurer left Germany for the U.S., where he worked in New York and San Francisco as a freelance graphic designer, including for IBM.[4] In , he moved back to Germany, founding Design M, a company developing and manufacturing lamps after his own designs.[4] The company was later renamed to "Ingo Maurer GmbH".[3] One of his first designs, the Bulb (), was included in the design collection of the Museum of Modern Art in [3]
In he presented the low-voltage wire