Erich Dieckmann

Pair of Armchairs

Made of beechwood with a tension sprung articulated seat and back, is very rare.

Fewer exemplars have been produced of this chair than any other design of Dieckmann for Gelenka DDP (Manufacturer), 1933.

With a beautiful natural patina and few extra screws has been added to the chairs to maintain the stability after almost 100 years of use.

Dieckmann's youth is little known. At the age of 16, he went to sea, in 1914 he volunteered for military service and was wounded. At the Technical University of Gdansk, he studied architecture from 1918 to 1920. After that, he began painting and drawing studies in Dresden.

From 1921 to 1925 he did a carpentry apprenticeship at the Bauhaus Weimar. After the move of the Bauhaus to Dessau, he remained at its successor institution, the State University of Applied Science, and in 1925 head of the carpentry workshop.

From 1931 to dismissal by the National Socialists in 1933, he led the carpentry workshop of the School of applied arts Burg Giesbichestein in Halle. In 1936, he was a clerk for operations design at the Office Beauty of work in Hannover.

From 1939 he worked as a speaker for the German crafts at the Reich Chamber of Fine Arts in Berlin. 

Dieckmann was the interior design of the "Music Home" in Frankfurt Oder, and the "Dining and Gentlemen's room" in the "Model House Am Horn" in Weimar come from him.

Dieckmann is one of the most important furniture designers of the Bauhaus. His designs are strictly geometric, with almost square-square or flat wood. For this he used quality woods such as ash, beech, cherry or oak. He also experimented with tubular steel, like Bauhaus member Marcel Breuer.

Provenance from a family in Zehlendorf, Berlin, Germany.

Pair in good original condition

H: 76cm x W: 59cm x D: 76cm

Price for the pair