Karl Clauss Dietel. Die offene Form

In the work of designer Karl Clauss Dietel, the potential of industrial design is explored, which during the GDR era was committed to the ideals of a humanistic-social society. Key concepts of Dietel, such as "use patina" and "the open principle," have lost none of their significance to this day, and "poetic-functional" forms, which he developed with Lutz Rudolph for Heliradio, Wartburg and Trabant, Simson Suhl, or Robotron as a freelance designer, are among the enduring, outstanding works of East German modernism. Karl Clauss Dietel (born 1934) worked as a freelance designer in collaboration with Lutz Rudolph for private and nationalized enterprises in the GDR. Lutz Rudolph (1936-2011) worked at the Central Institute for Design in Berlin and as a freelance designer from 1968 to 2000.