Gray Metal Vintage Industrial Machinist Table Lights by Curt Fischer for Midgard

Metal work light with flexible / gooseneck arm. Iron shade. On/Off Switch on wire Priced per individual item. All lamps have been made suitable by international standards for ...

French Holophane Black Enamel Vintage industrial 2-arm machinist work table lamp Cast iron clamp and arm. Brass joints. Adjustable in height and angle. Including plug and switch Ava...

Grey metal industrial 2 arm machinist work light / table lamp. Adjustable in height and angle including plug and switch in top of shade Base size 9 × 9 cm + clamp Available with UK ...

Grey metal industrial 2 arm machinist work light / table lamp. Adjustable in height and angle including plug and switch in top of shade Base size 9 × 9 cm + clamp Available with UK ...

French black iron gooseneck machinist work light adjustable in height and angle including plug and switch in base Available with UK / US plug Weight: 1.00 kg / 2.2 lb Priced per i...

Iron and Aluminium gooseneck machinist work light by Ki-É-Klair, France. ca 1950 adjustable in height and angle including plug and switch B22 bulb ...

This vintage articulated work lamp was originally designed by Curt Fisher for Midgard / Industriewerke Auma. To improve lighting in industrial workplaces Midgard developed a range of...

- Industrial workshop table lamp produced by Midgard in Germany during the 1930s. - Designed by Curt Fisher. - The lamp has three adjustable joints. - Black iron shade and arm - DDR...

wonderful 1920s articulating table-mounted desk lamps by Curt Fischer for Midgard in original grey-green hammer finish and on/off turn switch on the shade, arm lengths of the smaller...

Midgard table lamp by Curt Fischer, type 113. Germany, 1950s.

A jointed fully adjustable German table light by Industrial designer Curt Fischer who was hugely inspired by the Bauhaus Movement and Walter Gropius in particular. This light came ou...

Typ 113 Peitsche Table Lamp By Curt Fischer For Midgard Circa 1940s - Curved adjustable arm with its original grey paint - Angled steel shade in original brown paint - Takes E27 fitting bulbs - Designed by Curt Fischer - Typ 113 the "Peitsche" (whip) - German ~ 1940s - 75cm tall x 16cm wide Curt Fischer/Midgard Midgard was founded in 1919 in Auma / Thuringia by the engineer Curt Fischer. Originally for internal needs of his machine factory IWA Ronneberger & Fischer (industrial plant Auma), Curt Fischer developed scissors lamps and articulated lamps. This is why he is considered the inventor of the "tractable light". The in these days widespread ceiling-mounted pendulous lampshades provided only static light from above. As such, the entrepreneur regarded them as rather inflexible. This type of lightning caused the workers to cast shadow over their workpieces themselves. Curt Fischer sketched and manufactured first prototypes of articulated lamps by passing the live cable through tubes and developing articulations between the tubes. He perfected the system, developed many multi-armed desk lamps, work lamps and wall lamps. Within few years he turned to be a luminaire manufacturer which he called Midgard (as the Norse Mythology called the bright Middle Earth inhabited by people). Early on his designs were recognised and valued by Walter Gropius, among others, and hence used at the Bauhaus. Gropius supported Fischer's developments. Their original correspondence has been preserved until the present day. The post-war period Curt Fischer passes away in 1956. His son Wolfgang takes over management in the spirit of his father's. Up until in the late 60s Midgard produced their meanwhile three luminaire ranges: - the historic Steering Lamps, which were used among others at the Bauhaus - the robust and modular as well as maintenance-free Machine Lamp...