A pair of beechwood, a Bauhaus lounge chair by Erich Dieckmann with a tension sprung articulated seat and back is very rare. less exemplars has 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.

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

Price for the pair*

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 Gdańsk , 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 in Weimar . After the move of the Bauhaus to Dessau , he remained at its successor institution, the State University of Applied Sciences Weimar , 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 Giebichenstein 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. 

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