GDR product designer Karl Clauss Dietel dies
Created: 01/03/2022Updated: 01/03/2022, 4:35 PM
The designer Karl Clauss Dietel is in the Chemnitz art collections.
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The designer Karl Clauss Dietel, who gave numerous GDR products their appearance, is dead. According to his family, the form and product designer died on January 2nd at the age of 87.
Dietel made design history in eastern Germany.
These include the Simson S50 moped, the RK5 radio with ball speakers and Erika typewriters.
Chemnitz - He also worked intensively on drafts for motor vehicles, but most of them never went into series production.
He created the basic design for the Wartburg 353, which was implemented in modified form, as well as work on a successor to the Trabant 601.
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The Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz had only given an exhibition last year to gain insight into his diverse work.
The museum confirmed the news of death on Monday upon request.
In 2014 Dietel, who lived in Chemnitz, was awarded the Design Prize of the Federal Republic of Germany for his life's work.
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