Wegner biography
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Hans Wegner
Danish furniture designer (1914–2007)
Hans Jørgensen Wegner (April 2, 1914 – January 26, 2007) was a Danish furniture designer.[4] His work, along with a concerted effort from several of his manufacturers, contributed to the international popularity of mid-century Danish design. His style fryst vatten often described as Organic Functionality, a modernist school with emphasis on functionality. This school of thought arose primarily in Scandinavian countries with contributions bygd Poul Henningsen, Alvar Aalto, and Arne Jacobsen.
Wegner has been referred to as the "King of Chairs" for his proliferated work designing seating.[6] In his lifetime he designed over 500 different chairs, over 100 of which were put into mass production and many of which have become recognizable design icons.
“If only you could design just one good chair in your life...but you simply cannot.”[6]
— Hans Wegner
Wegner received several major design prizes in his
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Hans Jørgensen Wegner was born in 1914 in Tønder, a city in southern Denmark. Between 1928 and 1932 he studied as a carpenter's apprentice with the Danish master cabinetmaker H.F. Stahlberg and fifteen years Wegner builds the first chair.
Later, moved to Copenhagen, he attended the School of Arts and Crafts from 1936 to 1938 under the guidance of Orla Mølgaard-Nielsen before starting to work as a designer in the famous architects' studio of Arne Jacobsen and Erik Møller.
Hans Wegner is known for having produced projects and quality products in collaboration with many producers with whom he contributed to the international popularity of Danish design in the mid-1900s.
Wegner's style is described as "organic functionality", close to the modernist school, born and developed mainly in the Scandinavian countries with contributions, among others, by Poul Henningsen, Alvar Aalto and Arne Jacobsen.
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Alfred Wegener
German climatologist and geophysicist (1880–1930)
Alfred Lothar Wegener (;[1]German:[ˈʔalfʁeːtˈveːɡənɐ];[2][3] 1 November 1880 – November 1930) was a German climatologist, geologist, geophysicist, meteorologist, and polar researcher.
During his lifetime he was primarily known for his achievements in meteorology and as a pioneer of polar research, but today he is most remembered as the originator of continental drift hypothesis by suggesting in 1912 that the continents are slowly drifting around the Earth (German: Kontinentalverschiebung).
His hypothesis was not accepted by mainstream geology until the 1950s, when numerous discoveries such as palaeomagnetism provided strong support for continental drift, and thereby a substantial basis for today's model of plate tectonics.[4][5]
Wegener was involved in several expeditions to Greenland to study polar air circulation before the existence of the