In the 1930s, industrial designers began to make cars and other objects with smooth, curving lines.
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Once the work is completed, the heritage trust hopes to create a new 971 square metre exhibition space, allowing the museum to display some of the large industrialobjects in its reserve collections for the first time.
Beuys's distinctive use of industrialobjects took shape in his Kurhaus years, but some of his earliest artistic traces can be found in Schloss Moyland ( moyland.de), a neo-Gothic castle outside Kleve housing the art collection of the van der Grinten brothers, two early supporters.
Squeezed in the TV and smart phone market by Samsung, LG, Apple and others, Panasonic, Sharp, Toyota and others are trying to adapt their expertise in precision engineering and industrial design to everyday objects.