Heinrich Löffelhardt
Heinrich Löffelhardt was born on 24 December 1901 in Stuttgard. He was a German designer who was instrumental in shaping industrial design in Germany in the 1950s and 1960s. A number of glass and porcelain designs for Arzberg and Schott-Zwiesel are still produced today.
In 1920, after studying at secondary school, Löffelhardt began an apprenticeship in Heilbronn, where he was given the opportunity to study sculpture in Berlin in 1924. From 1934, Löffelhardt was commissioned by an agency to design canteen tableware. And in 1937, he started designing tea sets. These were characterised by the onion-shaped, smooth pot body with a finger-wide neck ring, the curved tubular spout and the ribbon handle.
In 1941, Löffelhardt was drafted into the Wehrmacht and did not return from Soviet captivity until 1947. Prospects were few and he worked in the design department of the state trade bureau in 1949. In 1950, he became department head and this was a remarkable achievement.
