An international collective of writers, motivated Hartmut Warkuss was born in Breslau in and started his career in as a designer for Mercedes-Benz. In he was hired by Ford, and in by Audi, where he designed his first Audi
ISBN: 8879601306. Size: 26 Hartmut Warkuss is awarded the Car Design Review Lifetime Achievement Award. In an exclusive interview, he talks about his career and offers some advice for the next generation of designers. Hartmut Warkuss might not be as high-profile as some of the more ‘showbiz’ late 20th Century car designers.
Hartmut Warkuss was head of There is a story behind the name, and it links back to Audi. Warkuss, like many auto designers, was an admirer of the Oldsmobile Toronado, General Motors’ first modern front-wheel drive car;.
Designer Hartmut Warkuss helped shape the Hartmut Warkuß (* in Breslau) ist ein deutscher Automobildesigner. Nach einer Ausbildung zum Metallgraveur war Warkuß zunächst für Daimler-Benz sowie Ford tätig, bevor er zur Audi NSU Auto Union AG nach Ingolstadt wechselte.
Passat first sold in I have written about them for Car Design News, Wallpaper* and YesAuto and also for high-quality classic car monthly Octane. My most recent long-form feature profiled car design great Hartmut Warkuss. Here’s the intro.
"We set up a project For said ‘Bavarians’ were the very Austrian newly-appointed VW CEO, Ferdinand Piëch, Silesia-born chief designer, Hartmut Warkuß, the latter’s deputy, Peter Schreyer (a true Bavarian, for once) and quite a few other key personnel.
Based on the Audi Volkswagen’s upmarket Passat derivative – was it misunderstood or simply misconceived? (c) privatefleet. If one was to plot the course of Volkswagen’s design heritage in purely aesthetic terms (if indeed such a thing were possible), it would be represented on a somewhat undulating graph, and it could be argued with some conviction that overall, the troughs have tended to outweigh the peaks.
Designer Hartmut Warkuss helps
Just how much the head of Italdesign, a company belonging to Volkswagen AG since , influenced the “Golf” product brand is emphasized by Hartmut Warkuß (70).. The ardent amateur pilot was chief designer of Volkswagen AG until his retirement in ; Hartmut Warkuß and his team created the Golf of the fourth and fifth generation.