DIE GUTE MODERNE – Grassi Museum Leipzig

The GRASSI Museum für Angewandte Kunst presents 600 exhibits by over 60 designers from the collection of the married couple Inge and Wilfried Funke in its Art Deco pillar hall. In view of the more than 10,000 individual objects from the Funke collection, which the GRASSI MAK brings together under around 2,500 inventory numbers, this is a seemingly small but varied selection.

For many years, the collecting couple repeatedly donated smaller convolutions to the museum, but finally bequeathed their entire collection to the GRASSI MAK. Inspired by a visit to an exhibition dedicated to the designer Heinrich Löffelhardt (1901-1979) at the Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe in 1980, the couple sought to continuously collect and meticulously document the ‘Good Form’ propagated by the German Design Council, especially after the Second World War – a moral demand on consumer goods and a taste-educational programme for the buying public.

Thus, in almost 40 years, one of the largest collections of 20th century industrial design was created. Century: Starting with the …

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Abb. oben: Coffee service ‘Urbino’, porcelain, cast, glazed with sponge-dot décor Staatliche Porzellan-Manufaktur Berlin (KPM) (execution), Trude Petri (design form), Enzo Mari (design décor), Berlin (place of manufacture), 1947 (form), 1995 (execution, décor).

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