Christian Dell
- Birthdate
- 1893
- Nationality
- Germany
- Occupation
- Designer, professor, silversmith
Christian Dell (February 24, 1893, Offenbach-am-Main, Germany – July 18, 1974, Wiesbaden, Germany) is a German designer, teacher, and silversmith.
He first studied goldsmithing and drawing in Hanau, before entering Weimar School of Applied Arts. After his military service, he directed the metal workshop at the Bauhaus School from 1922 to 1925 before joining the Frankfurt School of Art. In 1933, under pressure from the Nazi regime, he was no longer allowed to work. Walter Gropius invited him on several occasions to join him in the United States, but Christian Dell refuses, preferring to stay in Germany, in support of internal emigration. After World War II, he opens a jewellery store in Wiesbaden, where he works until his retirement in 1955.
Icon of the Bauhaus, he is recognized as a designer for the lighting he designed in the 1920s and 1930s, notably the Kaiser Idell collection, created in the 1930s for Gebr. Kaiser & Co. Leuchten KG (Arnsberg), now edited by Danish house Fritz Hansen.
