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Hans Günther Reinstein was born in Plauen in 1880 and was a German artist, designer, advertiser and poster artist. He became internationally known above all for his cardboard furniture, for which he had applied for a patent. Read the full biography

Hans Günther Reinstein was born in Plauen in 1880 and was a German artist, designer, advertiser and poster artist. He became internationally known above all for his cardboard furniture, for which he had applied for a patent. After spending some time on the fringes of the Darmstadt artists' colony, he finally established his studio at Kahlerstrasse 4. In the summer of 1902, Reinstein founded the artist group Vereinte Kunstgewerbler Darmstadt together with the architect Alfred Koch and the sculptor CF Meier, both students of Peter Behrens' project. On 16 August 1904 he went on a trip and the following year married Marie Elisabeth Kleinsteuber, possibly settling in Hanover by 1905, although he was no longer sighted in Darmstadt. In 1908, Reinstein designed an armchair made of corrugated cardboard, laminated wood and bentwood, which was produced in the same year by Vereinigte Möbelfabriken Germany, based in Bad Lauterberg, or starting in 1911 by Press-Stoff-Möbel-Gesellschaft, located in Vienna. Hans Günther Reinstein left Hanover for Berlin on March 31, 1938, and the date of his death could not be determined, at least until the early 1980s.