Erich Dieckmann

Germany

Person

Designer

Born 5 November 1896 Kauernick, Prussia Died 8 November 1944 Berlin, Germany Erich Dieckmann studied architecture at the Technische Hochschule in Danzig from 1918 to 1920 before pursuing studies in painting and drawing in Dresden. From 1921 to 1925 he attended the Staatliches Bauhaus in Weimar, where he worked in the cabinetmaker’s workshop from 1922 and, after completing his apprenticeship in 1924, became an employed journeyman. Following the Bauhaus move to Dessau, he continued to run the Weimar cabinetmaker’s workshop in 1925/26. In 1926 he designed furniture and interiors for a children’s home in Neuruppin and from 1926 to 1930 headed the cabinetmaking department at the Staatliche Hochschule für Handwerk und Baukunst in Weimar. Among his most important works were standardized furniture for an apartment in the Weißenhofsiedlung in Stuttgart and school furniture for the university school in Jena. He participated in the exhibitions 'Der Stuhl' (1927) and 'Bauen und Wohnen' (1928). In the early 1930s he designed furniture for several manufacturers and presented many of these works in his book 'Möbelbau in Holz, Rohr und Stahl' (1931). From 1931 to 1933 he served as artistic director of the cabinetmaker’s workshop at Burg Giebichenstein in Halle.