When it comes to the practical art of industrial works, most likely no other name rings a bell louder than that of Wagenfeld. One of the best industrial designers of the 20th century, the German industrial designer and Bauhaus sensation Wilhelm Wagenfeld is one of the typical icons of industrial design, some of what are at present iconic bits of industrial works for instance as the Wagenfeld Lampe and Moka Machine.

Birthed on April 15, 1900 in Bremen, Germany, Wagenfeld was first set to drawing and was an apprenticed at the Silberwarenfabrik Koch& Bergfeld as a young boy. In 1918 Wagenfeld studied at the Academy of Hanau but afterwards reassigned to the Bauhaus design school where he rested for numerous years. It was during his journeyman days at Bauhaus that Wagenfeld refined himself as a designer, and it was here that he made his illustrious Wagenfeld Lampe or Bauhaus table lamp in partnership with Karl Jacob Jucker. Wagenfeld was heavily win over by the modernist aesthetics nurture at the Bauhaus, and in spite of stark analysis from his colleagues went as one of the school's most prosperous prodigies.

After his learnings at the Bauhaus were finished, Wagenfeld got work for various business and factories including the Lausizter Glassworks Factory, the kitchenware giant WMF and the Braun appliance company. In addition, Wagenfeld also tutored for a short-range at the Staatliche Kunsthochschule in Berlin in 1931. When the World War II erupted, Wagenfeld was among the some of the German designers who declined|rejected} to move away Germany and was sent out to the Eastern Front where he was arrogated and captive by the Soviets in a prison camp ceased and he was released from prison Wagenfeld procedeed his teaching career and worked his own studio, the Werkstatt Wagenfeld, which he supervisedhandled up to the 1970s. In 1980, Wagenfeld also began cooperating with producers to mass-produce his Wagenfeld Lampe and other industrial designs.

Wilhelm Wagenfeld maintained teaching and establishing designs but he passed away on May 1990 in Stuttgart, Germany. Today his inheritance remains, the Wagenfeld Lampe and other designs are housed as collection patches in different design museums worldwide and are generated as reproductions by various troupes.