9 April 2021
Pamela Buxton
Vitra museum’s exhibition of design during 40 years of a divided Germany challenges lazy stereotypes to unveil a complex story of unlikely connections
Advertising brochure Trabant 601 Universal, (1965). Credit: © facsimile: Trabant Team Freital e V. (www.trabantteam-freital.de) Freital, 2020
The Vitra Design Museum was founded in 1989, the year the Berlin Wall came down ahead of German reunification in 1990. How appropriate then that it should host the first exhibition to look at German design in both the East (German Democratic Republic) and the West (Federal Republic of Germany) during the four decades of separation.
The resulting show, German design 1949-1989 – Two Countries, One History, challenges the popular but lazy stereotypes that have prevailed – that of the sleek, functionalist and sophisticated designs of West Germany and the cheap, tacky and generally all round inferior output of the GDR, perhaps best personified by the Trabant car,
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