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ABC's "The Collectors" - Re-sale royalty?

May 7, 2010 One of my works recently resold via this program on the ABC television channel in Australia. My good friend Jane Burns, the foundation Executive Director of Craft Australia, noted: “I realised that you should now get some...

Justice for Australian craftspeople

December 7, 2011 Filed under: Crafts in Australia — Tags: Craft problems in Australia — helmut @ 12:16 am I am one of the people involved in the current rush of letters, emails and circular discussions regarding the issue of...

Helmut Lueckenhausen and Friends

Griffiths, A, Helmut Lueckenhausen and Friends, Design World, No 12, 1987, pp. 34-41. Some designers' work is recognisably representative of a particular style or school while others is idiosyncratic. For the former that most precious of...

CRC woodworks in Victorian public Galleries.

May 8, 2010 Filed under: Design for Wood — Tags: Lueckenhausen designs in public galleries and museums — helmut @ 1:51 am I was project manager for “Innovative Technologies in the Design and Manufacture of High Value...

Two works of Judaica by Lueckenhausen now in the collection of the Jewish Museum Berlin

February 11, 2011 Filed under: Judaica in craft and design — Tags: Lueckenhausen's works in Jewish Museum Berlin — helmut @ 11:47 pm 1. Magen David Yom-hashoah Candelabra The Hebrew name Magen David, literally...

Modern Australian Furniture: Helmut Lueckenhausen

Bogle, M and Landman, P, Modern Australian Furniture, Craftsman House, Roseville NSW, 1889, pp. 24-27 Helmut Lueckenhausen is a puzzling artist. He makes furniture, but it has all the attributes of sculpture. He seems a quiet, thoughtful...

Crafts downgraded by the Australia Council again

November 13, 2011 Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: Craft problems in Australia — helmut @ 12:26 am In a review of 40 key organizations 12-13 September, the Visual Arts Board of the Australia Council decided to bring a 40-year...

Organic Furniture

Patrick, J, Organic Furniture, Craft Arts, May/July 1986, pp. 36-40 The surprisingly functional mythological designs of Helmut Lueckenhausen combine old woodworking traditions with modern high-tech processes and materials. WOOD is one of...

Design is Art That Makes Itself Useful

Ed. Nathan, L, Profile Helmut Lueckenhausen, Design is Art That Makes Itself Useful, Australian Wood Review, Issue 3, 1993. The first lime I saw the work of Helmut, some ten or more years ago, I remember being intrigued as much by the forms...