Hans Bellmann
Swiss furniture designer

Hans Bellmann

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Swiss furniture designer
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Birth:
25 September 1911(Turgi, Aargau, Switzerland)
Death:
26 October 1990(Beinwil, Aargau, Switzerland)
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Education:
Bauhaus
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Hans Bellmann (1911–1990) was a Swiss furniture designer primarily active in the 1950s and 1960s. He designed furniture for companies such as Horgen-Glarus.

Early career

He completed an apprenticeship as a draftsman and studied from 1931 to 1933 at the Bauhaus in Dessau and Berlin. He subsequently worked as an architect in the studio of Mies van der Rohe. In 1934 he returned to Switzerland and began working as a freelance architect.By 1946 he had developed a hole series of “Typenmöbel” (type furniture).