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Aloys Ferdinand Gangkofner Granada Pendant Lamp -1960 Catalogue Picture
Aloys Ferdinand Gangkofner Granada pendant lamp together with the Ibiza pendant lamp in a 1960 Peill + Putzler lighting catalogue. The Ibiza pendant lamp is also an Aloys Ferdinand Gangkofner design.
Aloys Ferdinand Gangkofner Granada Pendant Lamp – Peill + Putzler Logo
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Lamps by Aloys Ferdinand Gangkofner
Aloys Ferdinand Gangkofner Granada Pendant Lamp
Materials: Crystal vetro doublé hand blown white opal glass convex lampshade. Clear frosted, satin on the outside, white on the inside. Some metal parts. Metal E27 socket.
Cord Length: 100 cm / 39.37’’
Height: 50,5 cm / 19.88”
Width: ∅ 22 cm / 8.66”
Electricity: 1 bulb E27, 1 x 100 watt maximum, 110/220 volt.
Any type of light bulb can be used, not a specific one preferred. But a white, opaque or frosted one gives the most beautiful result.
Period: 1950s, 1960s – Mid-Century Modern.
Designer: Aloys Ferdinand Gangkofner (1920-2003).
Manufacturer:Peill + Putzler, Düren, Germany.
Other versions: This Aloys Ferdinand Gangkofner Granada pendant lamp exists with several designs, but it has always the same form. Some small variations in height. These lamps are all hand blown.
Vetro Doublé: an object made of two layers of glass normally of two different colours. In this case clear frosted/satin/matt on the outside and white on the inside.
Aloys Ferdinand Gangkofner
Aloys Ferdinand Gangkofner (1920–2003) was a German glass and lighting designer from the Bavarian Forest. Trained at the Staatliche Fachschule für Glasindustrie (State Technical School for the Glass Industry) in Zwiesel, he explored free-blown techniques at Lamberts in Waldsassen and translated those methods into serial production, treating glass and light as an inseparable pair throughout his career.
From 1953 he worked as a freelance designer for Peill + Putzler in Düren, developing blown-glass pendants and ceiling lights that became widely distributed; from 1959 he designed for ERCO in Lüdenscheid, where many 1960s–70s acrylic/geometric pendants entered the market. He also created designs for Hessenglaswerke and collaborated with Corning in the U.S. (industrial glass). In 1954 his work earned a Gold Medal at the Milan Triennale.
Alongside product lighting, Gangkofner built large light installations—often arrays of prisms or crystal spheres—and taught for decades at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, becoming Honorary Professor (1973) and later establishing the Chair of Glass and Light (1983). He died in Munich in 2003.
Legacy. Several of his mid-century lighting designs have been reissued by mawa design in recent years (including a 2025 relaunch).
Peill + Putzler
Glashüttenwerk Peill und Sohn was founded in 1903 in Düren, a small town in (West) Germany. Peill und Sohn merged with Putzler (founded in 1869) in 1947 as a glass works and lighting company and became Peill + Putzler Glashüttenwerke.
The company always worked with important designers such as Wilhelm Wagenfeld, William Brown, Helmut Demary, Aloys Ferdinand Gangkofner, Horst Tüselmann and many others.
In the 1950s 1500 people were working for the company. They also produced glass for other light companies in Europe, such as Raak, Amsterdam, The Netherlands and Massive from Belgium (and many others).
In 1995 the production of glass and lighting moved to Slovenia, Poland and the Czech Republic. Only the trading of lamps en glass stayed in Düren. 1 year after the 100th anniversary in 2004, bankruptcy was filed.
In 2008 the name Peill + Putzler was re-used for several years for among others the Wagenfeld lighting of the German lighting company of Paul Neuhaus.
Today the Peill + Putzler factory is called Glashütte Düren and is converted to many other businesses and conference centre.
