Island of Reichenau, Germany, 12/5/1932

Ingo Maurer began working as a typographer in Germany and Switzerland; from 1954 to 1958 he studied graphics at Munich. In 1960 he moved to the US where he worked freelance. In 1966 he founded the studio “Design M” in Munich where he designed his first lamp: Bulb. In 1985 the YaYaHo lighting system was shown in Paris at the Centre Georges Pompidou, in an exhibition entitled “Lumières je pense à vous”. In 1986 l’Institut Français d’Architecture in Paris hosted the exhibition “Ingo Maurer Lumière aha SoSo”. In 1986 he was made a Chevalier des arts et des lettres.

In 1989, Maurer presented for the first time at the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain in Jouy-en-Josas, his non commercial work with light entitled: “Ingo Maurer: Lumière Hasard Réflexion”. He has had a number of exhibitions: at the Ethnological Museum for Soviet People in Leningrad, the Museum Villa Stuck in Munich, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, the Neues Museum Weserburg in Bremen and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

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