Fred Lowen

[1] Lowen was born as Fritz Karl Heinz Loewenstein in 1919 in Upper Silesia,[2] then a part of Germany.

His father was Karl Loewenstein, later deported to Minsk Ghetto and Theresienstadt concentration camp.

[citation needed] Starting in September 1945, Lowen designed and made wooden salad bowls, trays and lazy susans with Ernest Rodeck under the name of FLER.

[1] He manufactured a Fred Ward-designed chair for the Myer department store in Melbourne, Victoria.

[4] He wrote an autobiography Fred Lowen: Dunera Boy, Furniture Designer, Artist, which was published in 2001.