Labor für Gestaltung · Hannover
Bernhard Lubos · This page is a showcase for my artistic and creative projects. I am an artist and graduate designer living in Hanover, Germany. In terms of design, there are training, experience and projects on the one hand in product design, interior design and architecture, and on the other in graphic design, corporate design, illustration and screen design. There is a lot to discover about this. But I would like to say a few words about how I got my passion for art, especially drawing and sculpture.
Born in Donauwörth in Bavaria in 1966, I grew up in the Allgäu in Württemberg. My father had studied mathematics and physics in Munich, but was also a master in drawing, watercolors and carving. When I didn't want to sleep as a child, he drew me jet fighters – who flew over our heads at low altitude – three dimensional with pilots in the cockpit, which I got the next day.
The high school teacher Mägdefrau later brought me closer to sculpture, especially that of modernism. In the advanced art course we studied them and their epoch from Kolbe to Moore. I was impressed of the spatial effect of the figures and the sacred atmosphere in the exhibitions, on various trips we saw sculptures by Lehmbruck, Bracusi or Wotruba.
The drawing then continued in Munich. First it was technical drawing, because I started an apprenticeship as a precision mechanic at Thomas Markl Mechanische Werkstätte, and for the second I took three semesters at Studio Zeiler, art school for drawing and painting, on Schellingstrasse in Schwabing, a historical place, because in this one lived sculptor Wilhelm Hüsgen, who founded the art school Phalanx together with Wassily Kandinsky and others in 1901. The curriculum included figurative objects, portraits and nudes. I drew airplanes in the Deutsches Museum, and marble heads in the Glyptothek.
Then I left the metropolis and the apprenticeship, first registered for architecture in Kaiserslautern and a little later I began the product design diploma course in Hildesheim. There I attended the nude drawing course with the sculptor Otto Almstadt almost every semester, which further sharpened my figurative perception after the courses in Munich-Schwabing. Other courses with him dealt with a certain degree of accuracy with pencil and ink, humans and animals were sculpted from clay and plaster of paris.
The sculpture “Muse” was created in 2001/2002 in Hanover. Since 2015 I have been dedicating myself with increasing intensity to figurative sculpture, both sculpturally and historically. I'll keep you posted here. Best regards, Bernhard Lubos.
labor für gestaltung · hannover started in 2003 as an editorial design agency. Founded by Bernhard Lubos, the laboratory focused on the design and production of magazines and specialist journals. For a good ten years everything happened that was necessary to give an editorial team a copy of the magazine at the end of the production, which was convincing from the title to the last page. Meanwhile, but especially from 2013 onwards, further development tasks were tackled, such as corporate designs, illustrations, design of websites and mobile apps.
