Designer Rudolf Horn is dead

The designer Rudolf Horn is dead. He died on Sunday afternoon at the age of 96 at the home of his partner in Halle, the director of the Saxony-Anhalt Art Foundation, Manon Bursian, told the German Press Agency.

The designer was born in Waldheim in Saxony in 1929. He first completed an apprenticeship as a carpenter and then studied in Mittweida (Saxony), Dresden and Halle. From 1968 to 1996, he was a lecturer and professor at the Burg Giebichenstein University of Industrial Design - Halle, from 1989 Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle.

Together with Eberhard Wüstner, Horn developed the MDW furniture program (assembly furniture of the Deutsche Werkstätten) for the Hellerauer Werkstätten in the 1960s.