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KAJ FRANCK TEEMA MED VARIATIONER WITH VARIATIONS<br />

KAJ FRANCK KAJ FRANCK DEN INDUSTRIELLE PRODUKTIONS ÆSTETIK<br />

Kaj Franck (1911-1989) var en af de helt<br />

store finske designere, der udøvede en<br />

markant indflydelse på både finsk og nordisk<br />

formgivning i perioden 1940-1980. Han<br />

var ansat ved Iittala (1946-50) og Nuutajärvi<br />

(1950-1976) som glasformgiver og som<br />

formgiver af keramik ved Arabia fra 1946.<br />

Som underviser og siden kunstnerisk leder<br />

af Konstindustriella Läroverket i Helsinki<br />

inspirerede han fra 1945 generationer af<br />

kunsthåndværkere og designere.<br />

Karrieren fik en flyvende start i 1950’erne,<br />

og blev båret frem af den begyndende velstand<br />

som de nordiske velfærdssamfund<br />

muliggjorde. Dagsordenen var i høj grad<br />

social, og drømmen var at skabe den optimale<br />

genstand. Dette fandt sted gennem en<br />

syntese af nytte og skønhed. Udgangspunktet<br />

var den klassiske modernismes funktionelle<br />

tilgang til formgivningsprocessen, og<br />

resultatet blev et demokratisk design.<br />

I 1955 modtog Franck den fornemme Lunning<br />

Prisen, der er blevet kaldt kunstindustriens<br />

nobelpris.<br />

Kaj Franck (1911-1989) was a leading Finnish<br />

designer and a prominent influence on<br />

both Finnish and Nordic design in the period<br />

of 1940-1980. He worked as a glass<br />

designer for Iittala (1946-50) and Nuutajärvi<br />

(1950-1976) and as a ceramics designer<br />

for Arabia from 1946.<br />

From 1945, as a teacher and later artistic<br />

director of the Institute of Industrial Arts in<br />

Helsinki, he inspired generations of makers<br />

and designers.<br />

His career received a boost in the 1950s,<br />

driven by the growing prosperity enabled by<br />

the Nordic welfare societies. The prevailing<br />

design agenda at the time had a strong<br />

social component, and the dream was to<br />

create optimal objects. This was pursued in<br />

a synthesis of utility and beauty. The point<br />

of departure was classic modernism and its<br />

functional approach to the design process,<br />

and the result was democratic design.<br />

In 1955, Franck was awarded the prestigious<br />

Lunning Prize, which has been called the<br />

Nobel Prize of industrial design.<br />

THE AESTHETICS OF INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION<br />

Wilhelm Wagenfeld underviste på Bauhauskolen<br />

i Tyskland i mellemkrigsårene, og<br />

satte nye standarder for funktionalitet, systemtænkning<br />

og rationalisering i udformningen<br />

af brugsglas. Kubus køleskabsboksene,<br />

der blev sat i produktion fra 1938, er<br />

et godt eksempel. I 1930’erne var optagetheden<br />

af den industrielle produktions<br />

æstetik et gennemgående træk og den<br />

ikoniske udstilling ”Machine Art” fra 1934<br />

på Museum Of Modern Art (MOMA) i New<br />

York City hyldede netop skønheden i alt fra<br />

laboratorieglas og petriskåle til propeller og<br />

maskindele. Tendenserne bredte sig til<br />

Norden om end ikke med samme radikalitet<br />

og konsekvens.<br />

4 5<br />

DESIGNMUSEUM DANMARK - 2013<br />

KAJ FRANCK, KANDE OG BÆGER, 1954, DESIGNMU-<br />

SEUM DANMARK / KAJ FRANCK, JUG AND TUMBLER,<br />

1954, DESIGNMUSEUM DANMARK<br />

WAGENFELD ”KUBUS”, 1938, DESIGNMUSEUM DANMARK<br />

Wilhelm Wagenfeld taught at the Bauhaus<br />

School in Germany in the years between the<br />

world wars, and he set new standards for<br />

functionality, systems thinking and rationalization<br />

in glassware design. This is exemplified<br />

in his Kubus refrigerator storage<br />

containers, which were put into production<br />

in 1938. In the 1930s, the emphasis on the<br />

aesthetics of industrial production was a<br />

prominent feature, and the iconic exhibition<br />

“Machine Art” from 1934 at the Museum of<br />

Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City celebrated<br />

the beauty in everything from laboratory<br />

glassware and Petri dishes to propellers<br />

and machine components. This<br />

trend also spread to the Nordic countries,<br />

albeit in a less radical and consistent incarnation.

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