Designer · Austria · 1934–2014
Hans Hollein
Hans Hollein (1934–2014) – Austrian architect and designer, Pritzker Prize laureate (1985), collaborator with Memphis and Alessi.
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About the designer
- Lifetime
- 1934–2014
- Country
- Austria
Hans Hollein was born on 30 March 1934 in Vienna, where he died on 24 April 2014. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in the class of Clemens Holzmeister (1956), the Illinois Institute of Technology (1959) and the University of California, Berkeley (1960). In 1964, he opened his own office in Vienna.
He was a professor at, among others, the academy in Düsseldorf (1967–1976) and the University of Applied Arts Vienna (1976–2002). He also gained recognition as a designer for the Memphis group and Alessi, as well as a set designer. Since the opening of the Abteiberg Museum in Mönchengladbach, he has been regarded as one of the most important representatives of postmodernism in Europe. In 1985, he received the Pritzker Prize.
