Outstanding Graphic Designer
Hermann Bongard (1921–1998) was a well-known graphic and glassware designer in Norway. A versatile, practical designer who insisted on simple and objective forms but took a more unrestrained line with purely decorative work.
Education
He studied lithography and commercial design at Oslo’s National School of Crafts and Industrial Design (Statens Handvaerks- og Kunstindustriskole).
Biography
He worked as a designer at the Hadelands glassworks from 1947 to 1955 under his former teacher, Sverre Pettersen, a book illustrator and glass designer. Bongard made art glass with unique forms and imaginative engraved design and more restrained table glassware, such as “Ambassador” (1954), a service for Norwegian embassies. He also dabbled with various mediums such as glass, wood, pottery, textiles, silver, and monumental architectural decoration. He worked as a design consultant for numerous firms after 1955, and he has focused on graphics and the printed page since the mid-1960s.
Recognition
At 1954 (X) Triennale di Milano, he was awarded the 1957 Lunning Prize and gold and silver medals. His work was featured in the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s ‘Design Since 1945’ exhibition from 1983 to 1984.
Sources
Byars, M., & Riley, T. (2004). The design encyclopedia. Laurence King Publishing.
Hiesinger, K. B., & Bill, M. (1983). Design since 1945: published in conjunction with the exhibition “Design Since 1945”, Philadelphia Museum of Art, October 16, 1983 to January 8, 1984.
Zahle, E. (1963). Scandinavian Domestic Design: Methuen. Internet Archive. Retrieved February 2, 2022, from https://archive.org/details/scandinaviandome0000erik/page/270/mode/2up?q=%22Hermann+Bongard%22.
Comments are closed, but trackbacks and pingbacks are open.