Biography
Hans Brockhage invented this ingenious piece of play furniture, which invites children to swing, ride and climb, during his studies at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste (then Werkkunst) in Dresden in 1950 in a seminar for toys. According to tradition, after his teacher Mart Stam responded to a conventional design for a rocking horse with the words: "If horse falls over, horse is dead. You must make horse that is not dead when falls over," Brockhage recalled the essential forms already propagated at the Bauhaus and created the multifunctional rocking carriage, which, patented in 1951, began its triumphal march in the kindergartens of the GDR and was exported. In 1957, Brockhage was honored by the Ulm University of Applied Sciences with the "Spielgut" award, followed by honors at the XII. Triennale in Milan and in 1983 the National Prize of the GDR. The rocking trolley was produced by various companies.
