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Hans Luckhardt The architect was born (1890) in Berlin and studied at the Technical College in Karlsruhe before he and his brother Wassili committed themselves to the “Arbeitsrat für Kunst”, the “Novembergruppe” and the architect's association “Der Ring”. In 1921 they founded an architectural office in Berlin. Some projects of their collaboration: the Hygiene Museum in Dresden, the Telschow business building at Potsdamer Platz, the redesign of Alexanderplatz in Berlin and the Medical University in Pressburg. Hans Luckhardt, who liked calling himself an inventor and was an interested technician and committed engineer, began developing chairs during the twenties. His goal was to achieve “aesthetically designed seating comfort”. The results were airplane seats, so-called “movement chairs” (Thonet Siesta) and the cantilever chair S 36. He died 1954
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