Ingo Maurer’s story is the tale of a great designer and entrepreneur, and it begins in Germany in 1932.
His working career began as a printer, but at the same time he studied graphic design in Munich and, in the following years, moved to America to work as an independent designer.
His personal company was founded in 1960, initially under the name Design M; it is now called Ingo Maurer GmbH. His early creations include the Bulb lamp in 1966, Gulp in 1969, Light Structure in 1970, Little Black Nothing and YaYaHo in 1988, Lucellino Wall and Wo Bist Du in 1999, Campari Light in 2002 and Porca Miseria! in 2003.
Some of his works are exhibited at MoMA in New York, also because Maurer’s poetics, besides being decidedly original and unrepeatable, brings his objects very close to the artistic world.
Many exhibitions and events have been dedicated to him and curated by him in Europe and beyond, and to name a few cities we could say Paris, St. Petersburg, Frankfurt, New York and Barcelona.
He has also received many awards, especially in the world of lighting, his great passion.
Lucellino 
Luzy on the Wall
For him, the light bulb was the center of everything and the poetic symbol of his entire career as a designer.
It represented the fulcrum of every object and every story he wanted to tell with his poetics. He was fascinated by the transparency of glass, which allows light to pass through in all its splendor. And besides that he was a great artist, because he started from a trivial concept like the light bulb and knew how to make each piece truly unique.
The characteristics that distinguished him were an unbridled imagination, a pinch of wit and a mixture of genius and madness: this was Ingo Maurer, and from all this he was able to create his wonderful empire of lights.
He was firmly convinced that if you don’t take a few risks, beautiful ideas can never blossom.
He lived to the age of 87 and passed away in 2019 in the city dear to him, Munich, where it all began.
CURIOSITY:
Already as a child Ingo Maurer was fascinated by light, and watched its reflections on walls and trees, fascinated by such magnificence. A passion that then lasted a lifetime.