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Luigi Colani

1928 - 2019

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Luigi Colani (born Lutz Colani; 2 August 1928 – 16 September 2019) was a German industrial designer. His long career began in the 1950s when he designed cars for companies including Fiat, Alfa Romeo, Lancia, Volkswagen, and BMW. In 1957, he dropped his first name Lutz using the name Luigi. In the 1960s, he began designing furniture, and as of the 1970s, he expanded in numerous areas, ranging from household items such as ballpoint pens and television sets to uniforms and trucks and entire kitchens. A striking grand piano created by Colani, the Pegasus, is manufactured and sold by the Schimmel piano company. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Luigi Colani is the 45th most popular designer (up from 46th in 2019), the 2,790th most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,868th in 2019) and the 7th most popular German Designer.

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Among DESIGNERS

Among designers, Luigi Colani ranks 45 out of 104. Before him are Salvatore Ferragamo, Giambattista Bodoni, Mariano Fortuny, Hubert Blaine Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff Sr., Alexander McQueen, and Margarete Steiff. After him are Otl Aicher, Eiko Ishioka, Betsy Ross, Adrian Frutiger, John Baskerville, and Domenico Dolce.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Luigi Colani ranks 211. Before him are Cécile Aubry, Jörg Demus, William Peter Blatty, Sisavath Keobounphanh, Jack Kevorkian, and Willy Mairesse. After him are Cy Twombly, Gerard Damiano, Nicolas Roeg, Anatoly Filipchenko, Édouard Glissant, and Jimmy Jones. Among people deceased in 2019, Luigi Colani ranks 165. Before him are Sogyal Rinpoche, John C. Bogle, Jörg Demus, Peter Schreier, Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino, and Goro Shimura. After him are Jean-Pierre Marielle, Keith Flint, José de Jesús Pimiento Rodríguez, Johnny Kitagawa, Claude Goretta, and Pim Verbeek.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Luigi Colani ranks 2,791 out of 7,253. Before him are Leopold IV, Duke of Anhalt (1794), Stanisław Mikołajczyk (1901), Walter Heitler (1904), Wilhelm Roux (1850), Alfred Wünnenberg (1891), and Frederick Charles, Duke of Württemberg-Winnental (1652). After him are Hans von Marées (1837), Princess Maria Augusta of Saxony (1782), Michael Rummenigge (1964), Franz Joseph Emil Fischer (1877), Martin Walser (1927), and Werner Schroeter (1945).

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Among DESIGNERS In Germany

Among designers born in Germany, Luigi Colani ranks 7. Before him are Hugo Boss (1885), Michael Thonet (1796), Georg Elser (1903), Dieter Rams (1932), Hubert Blaine Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff Sr. (1914), and Margarete Steiff (1847). After him are Otl Aicher (1922), Anton Koberger (1440), Erik Spiekermann (1947), and Philipp Plein (1978).

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