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Carl Jacob Jucker (1902 - 1997) was born in Zurich in 1902. After completing a four-year apprenticeship as a silversmith at the Zurich School of Applied Arts in 1922, he was a student at the Bauhaus in Weimar. Read the full biography

Carl Jacob Jucker (1902 - 1997) was born in Zurich in 1902. After completing a four-year apprenticeship as a silversmith at the Zurich School of Applied Arts in 1922, he was a student at the Bauhaus in Weimar. In 1922 he began training in the metal workshop. Here he met Wilhelm Wagenfeld, with whom he developed the glass version of the Bauhaus lamp together in 1923. In his projects he prefers to use technical materials such as glass and metal, mirror lamps and reflectors. In his first year in the metal workshop, he worked on prototypes of a geometrically simple and functional table lamp. The lamp is composed of the geometric elements characteristic of the Bauhaus: circular base, cylindrical stem, pull switch with metal sphere and lampshade in opaline glass or Jena glass in the shape of a 5/8 sphere. Jucker is considered one of the first Bauhaus students to design glass table lamps. He died in 1997 in Schaffhausen, Switzerland.