Designer · Switzerland · 1911–1972
Alfred Altherr
Alfred Altherr (1911–1972) – Swiss architect, industrial designer and educator, initiator of the “Die Gute Form” award.
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About the designer
- Lifetime
- 1911–1972
- Country
- Switzerland
Alfred Altherr junior was born on 8 March 1911 in Wuppertal and died on 15 June 1972. After training as an architectural draughtsman, he worked in 1930 in Paris at the studio of Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret, followed, among others, by work with Karl Moser and Alfred Roth and at the Gebrüder Pfister furniture company in Zurich. From 1934, he ran his own practice and taught at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Zurich.
With Walter Frey, he founded the magazine “Bauen + Wohnen”. From 1949 to 1961, he was director of Schweizerischer Werkbund (Swiss Werkbund) and in 1952 initiated the “Die Gute Form” award; from 1961 to 1963, he headed the Kunstgewerbeschule and Kunstgewerbemuseum in Zurich. His designs included the “Landi” bench for the 1939 national exhibition, created with Charles Hoch, and FREBA standard furniture.
