Midgard Scissor Lamp Circa 1930s

Industrial Scissor Lamp By PeHaWe Circa 1930s - Large extendable scissor - Takes E27 fittings bulbs - Original On/Off toggle switch on the shade - Made by PeHaWe, Dresden - German ~...

Industrial Task Lamp By Willhelm Bader Circa 1930s - Black enamel shade - Original bakelite head with On/Off switch - Articulated arms - Takes E27 fitting bulbs - By Willhelm Bader ...

Typ 113 Peitsche Table Lamp By Curt Fischer For Midgard Circa 1940s - Curved adjustable arm with its original grey paint - Angled steel shade in original brown paint - Takes E27 fitting bulbs - Designed by Curt Fischer - Typ 113 the "Peitsche" (whip) - German ~ 1940s - 75cm tall x 16cm wide Curt Fischer/Midgard Midgard was founded in 1919 in Auma / Thuringia by the engineer Curt Fischer. Originally for internal needs of his machine factory IWA Ronneberger & Fischer (industrial plant Auma), Curt Fischer developed scissors lamps and articulated lamps. This is why he is considered the inventor of the "tractable light". The in these days widespread ceiling-mounted pendulous lampshades provided only static light from above. As such, the entrepreneur regarded them as rather inflexible. This type of lightning caused the workers to cast shadow over their workpieces themselves. Curt Fischer sketched and manufactured first prototypes of articulated lamps by passing the live cable through tubes and developing articulations between the tubes. He perfected the system, developed many multi-armed desk lamps, work lamps and wall lamps. Within few years he turned to be a luminaire manufacturer which he called Midgard (as the Norse Mythology called the bright Middle Earth inhabited by people). Early on his designs were recognised and valued by Walter Gropius, among others, and hence used at the Bauhaus. Gropius supported Fischer's developments. Their original correspondence has been preserved until the present day. The post-war period Curt Fischer passes away in 1956. His son Wolfgang takes over management in the spirit of his father's. Up until in the late 60s Midgard produced their meanwhile three luminaire ranges: - the historic Steering Lamps, which were used among others at the Bauhaus - the robust and modular as well as maintenance-free Machine Lamp...

Kandem 756 desk lamp Circa 1930s. - Cast iron stepped base - Steel arm and shade - Original On/Off toggle switch on the shade - Produced by Kortin...

Clamp lamp from the 1930s, chosen by Walter Gropius to equip the Bauhaus building in Dessau in 1926. This adjustable clamp lamp, known as model Typ 113 Peitsche, has a bent arm hous...

A large and impressive scissor wall lamp by Curt Fischer for Midgard, Germany, 1940s. It features a long scissor construction holding an enamel metal shade that can be adjusted in mo...

- Industrial workshop adjustable DDRP scissor wall lamp produced by Midgard in Germany during the 1930s. - Designed by Curt Fisher. - Metal shade - Grey iron scissor arm is extendab...

An impressive Midgard wall scissor light, a early version of modell 110, with a length of 149 cm in total. The light can be moved to almost any position at a 180-degree angle. The la...