Peill + Putzler Lissabon Pendant Lamp

Peill + Putzler Lissabon pendant lamp white opal glass globe dotted lampshade design: Aloys Ferdinand Gangkofner 1950s 1960s

Peill + Putzler Lissabon Pendant Lamp
1976 – 1977 Catalogue Picture

On this page in the catalogue, the Lissabon pendant lamp model 8999, Together with the Bologna pendant lamp, models 6300, 6301 and 8203, also a Gangkofner design. And table lamp model 70105 and 70106.

Peill + Putzler Lissabon Pendant Lamp
Peill + Putzler Logo

Many thanks to Max from AfterMidnight for the catalogue picture.

Materials: White opal hand blown onion/tulip shaped glass globe lampshade with many dots. Brass rod and clamps. Metal E27 socket.

Cord Length: 80 cm / 31.49”

Height: 33 cm / 12.99”

Width: ∅ 28 cm / 11.02”

Electricity: 1 bulb E27, 1 x 100 watt maximum, 110/220 volt.
Any type of light bulb can be used. But preferably a white/opaque bulb. A clear bulb creates stripes on the glass and therefor also on the walls.

Period: 1950, 1960s – Mid-Century Modern.

Designer: Aloys Ferdinand Gangkofner (1920-2003).

Manufacturer: Made and sold by Peill + Putzler in Düren, Germany and also produced for Raak, The Netherlands.

Other versions: This Peill + Putzler Lissabon pendant lamp is made in only one version. Gangkofner designed several lamps in this style for Peill + Putzler. Several of them were sold by Raak and probably some other companies. This lamp appears in Raak catalogue 4 from 1958.

This pendant lamp is often confused with the Satellite pendant lamp Vilhelm Wohlert designed for Louis Poulsen, but the Satellite does not have the motifs on it and is completely opaque.

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, often named Peill & Putzler.

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.