Design: Christian Dell, c. 1933/34.
Manufacture: Gebr. Kaiser & Co., Neheim-Hüsten, Germany, modelno. 6739 Super.
Mark: embossed in the dome: „Original Kaiser Idell“.
Measures: Extrusion max. 27,5”, diameter reflector 8,3”.

_{State: Tracks of use on the outside of the reflector, within a few ships at the edge inside, scratchers in the lacquer of the screw clamp, cableconstruction from the 70s.}

Reflector half of a globe inside torus on the edge, steel, black lacquer, inside white, screw clamp lacquered, power button made of white plastic.

Between 1922 and 1925 Christian Dell worked in the Weimar Bauhaus with the workshop’s artistic director László Moholy-Nagy and students such as Wilhelm Wagenfeld, Carl Jakob Jucker and Gyula Pap, building on experiences of modern lighting design. In 1926 he was appointed director of the newly established metalwork course at the Frankfurt School of Art, a post he held until dismissal by the Nazis in 1933. In Frankfurt, as well as teaching and practising as a silversmith, he launched his career as a lighting designer.

Walter Gropius reviewed, that he was an experienced silversmith and talented teacher, because under his leadership the metal workshop of the Bauhaus got its actual contours and small-scale basis for a productive work.

After his dismissal in Frankfurt Dells begins his probably most fertile cooperation with the lighting manufacturer Gebr. Kaiser & Co. in Neheim-Hüsten. Under the “Kaiser Idell” label he developed from 1933/34 on a whole range of lights. There is also the light with a flexible tube arm, which is even in the collection Bauhaus Archive - Museum of Design in Berlin. The applied modular system comes here to an exemplary way in the manufacturing process.

In: Kat. Die Metallwerkstatt am Bauhaus, Ausstellung im Bauhaus Archiv Museum für Gestaltung Berlin 1992, S.204, Kat.Nr. 162b. Brochure of Gebr. Kaiser & Co. with different „Kaiser Idell“ lightings, which are designed by Christian Dell, c. 1935 (cp. image).

Viewing by appointment possible. Location Berlin/Germany.