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Heinrich Löffelhardt
Heinrich Löffelhardt was born on Dec. 24, 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 being produced.
In 1920, after studying at high school, Löffelhardt began an apprenticeship in Heilbronn, where in 1924 he had the opportunity to study sculpture in Berlin. Starting in 1934, Löffelhardt was commissioned by an agency to design canteen tableware. And in 1937 he began designing tea sets. Characteristic of these were 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 he 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.