With the invention of the bicycle, man's most efficient means of transportation using muscle power was created. With it, man expanded his radius of action with increasing acceleration, and at the same time individualized transport began. The exhibition "Your own drive. Fine Bicycles" is dedicated to the highlights of bicycle design from three centuries: from Karl Drais' running machine to high, low and folding bicycles to the everyday bicycle or sports equipment of today. The spectrum ranges from handcrafted frame construction to industrial series production and bicycles from 3D printers.
Over the course of its more than three centuries of development, the bicycle has become the world's most widespread means of transportation. In addition, societal, political, social and economic conditions have shaped the significance of this means of transportation and the visions of the future associated with it. At the same time, the bicycle has always been more than just a means of transportation, as it also stands for sport, health, lifestyle and often that interplay of design and sophisticated functional technology that makes it an almost cultishly charged design object. The fact that the design of bicycles is closely linked to the history of technical innovations and manufacturing processes can be seen in the drive, suspension and wheels, but especially in the frame and its materials - design and technology are increasingly merging and the limits of what is feasible are being explored time and again.
The exhibition focuses on local companies and institutions that played a central role in the development and distribution of bicycles in the German Empire and the Weimar Republic: Adlerwerke (formerly Heinrich Kleyer AG), which was once based in Frankfurt am Main, the Arbeiter-Radfahrerbund Solidarität, which was founded in Offenbach am Main in 1889, and the Offenbach bicycle company Frischauf, which began producing its own inexpensive bicycles in 1922.
A cooperation between the Museum Angewandte Kunst, the German Bicycle Museum, Bad Brückenau and Die Neue Sammlung - The Design Museum, Munich.
Over the course of its more than three centuries of development, the bicycle has become the world's most widespread means of transportation. In addition, societal, political, social and economic conditions have shaped the significance of this means of transportation and the visions of the future associated with it. At the same time, the bicycle has always been more than just a means of transportation, as it also stands for sport, health, lifestyle and often that interplay of design and sophisticated functional technology that makes it an almost cultishly charged design object. The fact that the design of bicycles is closely linked to the history of technical innovations and manufacturing processes can be seen in the drive, suspension and wheels, but especially in the frame and its materials - design and technology are increasingly merging and the limits of what is feasible are being explored time and again.
The exhibition focuses on local companies and institutions that played a central role in the development and distribution of bicycles in the German Empire and the Weimar Republic: Adlerwerke (formerly Heinrich Kleyer AG), which was once based in Frankfurt am Main, the Arbeiter-Radfahrerbund Solidarität, which was founded in Offenbach am Main in 1889, and the Offenbach bicycle company Frischauf, which began producing its own inexpensive bicycles in 1922.
A cooperation between the Museum Angewandte Kunst, the German Bicycle Museum, Bad Brückenau and Die Neue Sammlung - The Design Museum, Munich.
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