Ingo Maurer (Reichenau, May 12, 1932) is a German designer and entrepreneur specializing in the design of lighting equipment.
After working as a typographer in Germany and Switzerland, and completed his studies in graphic Monaco of Bavaria in 1958, between 1960 and 1963 he lived in New York and San Francisco working as a freelance designer.
In 1960 the company founded Design M, which later became Ingo Maurer GmbH: among the first creations of the house there is a desk lamp bulb (1966), chromed metal and glass blowing. Following the company will produce other lamps designed by the same Maurer, several of which will be included in the design collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York among them Gulp (1969), Light Structure (1970), Little Black Nothing, and the system Low voltage YaYaHo (1988), Los Dos Minimalos, Lucellino Wall, Wo bist du, Edison ...? and Zettel'z (1999) and Porca Miseria! (2003).
Trade shows and exhibitions dedicated to him and he treated were held in various cities in Europe and elsewhere: in Paris (aha Soso Light Ingo Maurer, 1986, and Ingo Maurer: Light Hasard Réflexion, 1989), St. Petersburg (Design.. .? - -! Lighting of Ingo Maurer and his team / command at the Russian Ethnographic Museum, 1992), Monaco of Bavaria (Ingo Maurer: Lich Museum Villa Stuck, 1992), Amsterdam (Stedelijk Museum Licht licht , 1993), Cologne (Tales of Light, 1998), New York (66 Projects at the Museum of Modern Art, 1998), Barcelona (Ingo Maurer. Steps to Llum, 2001) and Frankfurt (Ephemera Visionäre Ingo Maurer. Licht, 2002 ). Some of his installations have finally found a place in the stations and Westfriedhof Münchner Freiheit subway of Monaco of Bavaria.
For his research on the importance of lighting fixtures, has received several international awards: among them the Design Prize by the city of Monaco of Bavaria (1999), the Spring of Disseny in Barcelona (2001), and the prize Georg Jensen in Copenhagen in 2003. In 2005 he was appointed Royal Designer of Industry by the Royal Society of Arts in London, while a year later he was awarded an honorary degree at the Royal College of Art in 2011, he received the Golden Compass Association Industrial Design.
Ingo Maurer lives and works in Monaco of Bavaria.
1960: Departure for the United States. He works as a freelance designer in New York and San Francisco. 1963 return to Europe. 1966: Foundation of "Design M" Monaco of Bavaria. First lamp: Bulb. Several design awards. Integration of many lamps in the collections of several museums. In the design collection of the Museum of Modern
Art in New York are: Bulb and Gulp (1969), Light Structure (1970, as co-designer), and Little Black YaYaHo Nothing (1988), Los Dos Minimalos, Lucellino Wall, Wo bist du, Edison ...? and Zettel'z (1999), Porca Miseria! (2003).
June 1985: Installing YaYaHo at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris for the exhibition "Lumière Je pense à vous".
May 1986: Exhibition "aha Soso Light Ingo Maurer" at the Institut Français d'Architecture in Paris.
October 1986: Creation of special effects lighting for the exhibition "Design a la Villa Medici" in Rome. Decorated by the French Minister for Culture as a "Chevalier des arts et des lettres".
May 1988: Installation of a lighting system for the exhibition "Design heute. Mass-Stab: Formgebung zwischen Industrie und Kunst-Stück" at the Deutsches Architecture Museum in Frankfurt.
April / May 1989: For the first time Ingo Maurer presents research on light non-commercial at the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain in Jouy-en-Josas (Paris) entitled "Ingo Maurer: Light Hasard Réflexion".
July / August 1989: Exhibition at the Museum of Ethnology of the Soviet peoples in Leningrad: "... Design? ---! Lighting of Ingo Maurer and his team / Commando".
February 1991: Participation in the exhibition "Münchner Räume" at the Stadtmuseum, Monaco of Bavaria.
January 1992: Exhibition at the Museum Villa Stuck, Monaco of Bavaria "Ingo Maurer: Licht".
March 1993: Exhibition "Licht licht" at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam.
November 1994: Participation in the exhibition "Identity and difference. The stories of living" at the Triennale di Milano and pezziunici installations.
March 1995: Participation in the exhibition "Die Kunst und das schöne ding" at the Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen.
January 1998: Elected "Designer des Jahres 1997" by the magazine "Architektur & Wohnen".
November 1998: Exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, "66 Projects" (with Fernando and Humberto Campana.)
March 1999: Collaboration with Issey Miyake Japanese fashion designer. Installation with special effects for the Issey Miyake fashion show at La Villette.
September 1999: Design Award 1999 in the city of Monaco.
October 2000: Award "Lucky Strike Designer Award 2000" of the Raymond Loewy Foundation.
April 2001: Received the Spring of 2000 the city Disseny Barcelona. Exhibition "Ingo Maurer. Llum passed through the" retrospective at the Museum with Santa Monica in Barcelona.
July 2001: Participation in the exhibition "Wohnkultur" at the Stadtmuseum, Monaco of Bavaria.
March 2002: Exhibition at the Museum für Angewandte Kunst in Frankfurt on "visionary Ingo Maurer.Licht ephemera." Exhibition "Ingo Maurer - Light - Reaching for the Moon".
2002/ August October 2003: Vitra Design Museum, Weil, Germany.
April / May 2004: Dansk Design Center, Copenhagen.
July / August 2004: Beurs van Berlage, Amsterdam.
2004/January September 2005: The Grand Hornu, Hornu, Belgie.
December 2005/January 2006: IVAM, Valencia, Spain.
2006 June April 2006: Tsukuba Museum of Art, Ibaraki, Japan.
July 2006 / septembre 2006: Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan.
October 2006 / November 2006: Suntory Museum, Osaka, Japan.
November 2002: Award "Collab's Design Excellence Award" by the Philadelphia Museum of Art
January 2003: Award of the Georg Jensen Prize in 2002, Copenhagen.
September 2003: Award "The Fourth Oribe Award" from the Design Academy Division of the province of Gifu, Japan.
February / April 2004: participation in exhibition "Brilliant" at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London.
February / May 2004: participation in exhibition "From Luz Ilumina Design 1920-2004" at the Museu de Arte Brasileira, Fundacao Armando Alvares Penteado, "São Paulo.
November 2005: Appointed Royal Designer of Industry (honorary) awarded by The Royal Society of Arts, London.
April 2006: participation in exhibition "The movement des images" at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris.
June 2006: Received the title of Doctor Honoris Causa from the Royal College of Art in London.
September 2006: Award "Abitare Il Tempo" from the exhibition "Abitare Il Tempo" in Verona.
September 2007: Exhibition "Provoking Magic: Lighting of Ingo Maurer" at the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, New York.
May 2008: Exhibition "Ingo, Piero and the egg" in Carispe Foundation in La Spezia, Italy.
February 2010: Design Prize of the German Federal Republic.
June / August 2010: Exhibition "Complete with Bulb - Light by Ingo Maurer" Bauhaus Archive in Berlin.