BONUS EPISODE 1 – ENGLISH

In this bonus episode you will hear the original interview with Martin Mäntele, head of the HfG Ulm Archive, and bauhaus faces.

Discover how Max Bill played a central role in the founding and first years of the HfG Ulm, the Ulm School of Design – and how it evolved without him. And join us as we discuss the design icons of the HfG: the Ulm stool, the Braun radio ‘Snow White's Coffin’ and the stackable TC 100 tableware. And so much more …

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HfG ULM ARCHIVE

HAUS BILL, ZUMIKON

COVER IMAGE

SK 4 radio-record player combination, Design: Hans Gugelot (HfG) and Dieter Rams (Braun), Manufacturer: Braun AG, 1956, photo by Oleg Kuchar, © HfG Archive Museum Ulm

CHAPTER IMAGES

1 Portrait Dr. Martin Mäntele, 2022, photo by Max Braun, © HfG-Archiv Museum Ulm

2 Max Bill with Walter Gropius, Inge Aicher-Scholl, Otl Aicher, 1954, photos by Sigrid von Schweinitz, © HfG-Archiv Museum Ulm

3 Inge Aicher-Scholl and Walter Gropius at the opening of the HfG building, October 1955, photo by Hans and Ike Rosenberg, © HfG-Archiv Museum Ulm

4 Max Bill in Ulm, ca. 1955, photo by Sigrid von Schweinitz, © HfG-Archiv Museum Ulm

5 Hans-Werner Richter and Inge Scholl in Ulm, 1949, photo by Hannes Rosenberg, © HfG-Archiv Museum Ulm

6 Ingela Albers and Walter Peterhans preparing the presentation of the results of problem no. 9 for group discussion, 1953, © HfG-Archiv Museum Ulm

7 Exercise from Walter Peterhans' course, Lecturer: Walter Peterhans, Student: Immo Krumrey, 1955, photo by Oleg Kuchar, © HfG-Archiv Museum Ulm

8 Josef Albers in the classroom, ca. 1955, photo by Rolf Schroeter, © HfG-Archiv / Museum Ulm & Josef Albers teaching the Grundlehre course at the Ulm School of Design, ca. 1954, photo by Ernst Hahn, © HfG-Archiv Museum Ulm

9 Colour exercise, Lecturer: Helene Nonné-Schmidt, Student: Bertus Mulder, photo by Oleg Kuchar, © HfG-Archiv Museum Ulm
10 Johannes Itten in class, 1955, photo by Sigrid von Schweinitz, © HfG-Archiv Museum Ulm

11 Max Bill teaching at HfG Ulm, 1955, photo by Ernst Hahn, © HfG-Archiv Museum Ulm

12 Tomás Maldonado discussing designs, 1955, photo by Wolfgang Siol, © HfG-Archiv Museum Ulm

13 Handover of the million-mark cheque at Ulm Town Hall, 1952. From left to right: Mayor Pfizer (in the background), Inge Aicher-Scholl, Ellen McCloy, John J. McCloy, Photographer unknown © HfG-Archiv Museum Ulm

14 ADGB Trade Union School Bernau, 1930, Postcard, bbb e. V. Archive

15 The completed main building, photographed from an aeroplane, 1955, photo by Ernst Hahn, © HfG-Archiv Museum Ulm

16 The Ulm Stool, 1954, Design: Max Bill, Hans Gugelot in collaboration with Paul Hildinger and Josef Schlecker, photo by Ernst Hahn, © HfG-Archiv Museum Ulm

17 Construction oft he teachers‘ houses, 1961, photo by Wolfgang Siol, © HfG-Archiv Museum Ulm

18 Anti-War March, Chicago 1968, by David Wilson, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=48476311

19 View of the permanent exhibition, 2013, photo by Jens Kramer, © HfG Archive Museum Ulm

20 SK 4 radio-record player combination, Design: Hans Gugelot (HfG) and Dieter Rams (Braun), Manufacturer: Braun AG, 1956, photo by Oleg Kuchar, © HfG Archive Museum Ulm | Stackable tableware TC 100, 1961, Design: Hans (Nick) Roericht, 1959, Manufacturer: Thomas / Rosenthal, 1961, photo by Wolfgang Siol, © HfG Archive Museum Ulm

21 SK 4 radio-record player combination, Design: Hans Gugelot (HfG) and Dieter Rams (Braun), Manufacturer: Braun AG, 1956, photo by Oleg Kuchar, © HfG Archive Museum Ulm

22 Stackable tableware TC 100, 1961, Design: Hans (Nick) Roericht, 1959, Manufacturer: Thomas / Rosenthal, 1961, photo by Wolfgang Siol, © HfG Archive Museum Ulm

23 Mitropa tableware RATIONELL, 1969/1970, https://www.etsy.com/de/listing/1278132116/geschirr-rationell-ddr-porzellan-colditz