TGL is a series on the state standards of the former GDR. It combines standard parts and colors of TGL (Technical Standards, Quality Specifications, and Delivery Conditions) and shows how color is encoded and administered through state, industrial, and technical systems.
In the planned economy of the GDR, industrial products were centrally standardized. The starting points of the research are a 1977 color register from the estate of GDR designer Lutz Rudolph and contemporary TGL standard sheets. Based on these sources, the historical use of the state-prescribed colors is traced. Selected color tones are reconstructed as lacquers and applied to TGL standard parts. Lacquering and staging remove the colors and objects from their industrial functional context and expose their historical layering.
In 1988, the NVA supplemented its traditional camouflage tone Olive Green — adopted from the Wehrmacht — with two new colors, including Twilight Grey 2403. This color was valid for only two years — it vanished with the state that had prescribed it.
TGL is a series on the state standards of the former GDR. It combines standard parts and colors of TGL (Technical Standards, Quality Specifications, and Delivery Conditions) and shows how color is encoded and administered through state, industrial, and technical systems.
In the planned economy of the GDR, industrial products were centrally standardized. The starting points of the research are a 1977 color register from the estate of GDR designer Lutz Rudolph and contemporary TGL standard sheets. Based on these sources, the historical use of the state-prescribed colors is traced.
