Industrial DDRP Desk or Wall Lamp by Curt Fischer for Midgard, 1930s

Large industrial table lamp with three adjustable joints made in former Czechoslovalia during the 1960s.It features grey iron base and arm and w...

Industrial table lamp made in former Czechoslovakia during the 1950s.It features a black enamel shade with white enamel interior, an iron base and a chrome plated arm with three adju...

Vintage German bakelite desk lamp in Bauhaus style.It features a black bakelite shade, chromed gooseneck and cast iron base with original switch. The socket requires E 27 light bulbs...

This dark brown industrial desk lamp was made in former Czechoslovakia during the 1960s. The lamp has an aluminium shade, a wooden base and iron arm with two adjustable joints. Orig...

Midgard R2 desk lamp, originally designed by Curt Fischer, this version was manufactured in the 1960s. Adjustable height thanks to several joints and rotatable on the base. The shade...

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...

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

Industrial architect desk or wall light designed by Bauhaus Icon Marianne Brandt. It was manufactured by German Kandem in the 1930s. The adj...