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Alfa's last hero - Zbigniew Maurer

Name: Alfa Romeo 156
Brand: Alfa Romeo

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Created on June 16, 2023

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Thomas Wirth

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Chekandino/Angelo Bianchetti

Zbigniew Maurer

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Chekandino/Angelo Bianchetti

Zbigniew Maurer

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With the Alfa Romeo Giulietta Sprint, the model was not enough for the designer

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A wonder room for the designer Zbginiew Maurer

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A private model car collection built up over decades

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Not just one model is enough for designer Zbginiew Maurer

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La grande e la piccola - Alfa Romeo Diva prototype

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Review of concept cars - Zbigniew Maurer secured many photos in front of the Mülltönne before the Centro Stile Alfa Romeo closed

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Zbigniew Maurer worked at the Centro Stile Alfa Romeo from 1993 and was responsible for the design of the 156 model and the Diva study

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The 57-year-old Zbigniew Maurer is particularly proud of his created art 'Diva'

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Alfa Romeo 6C 2500 SS Villa d'Este - Design

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Alfa Romeo 6C 2500 SS Villa d'Este - Zbigniew Maurer draws his own design today

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Alfa Romeo 6C 2500 SS Villa d'Este - Zbigniew Maurer produces the design as a model today

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Alfa Romeo 6C 2500 SS Villa d'Este - Zbigniew Maurer makes his own model

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Zbigniew Maurer not only focuses on the design of the body, the mechanics are also processed down to the smallest detail

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The curved lettering on the models measures just a few millimeters

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Front view of the Alfa Romeo 33 Stradale and Diva at the end of model development.

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Side view of the Alfa Romeo 33 Stradale and Diva at the end of model development

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Rear view of the Alfa Romeo 33 Stradale and Diva at the end of model development.

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Alfa Romeo 33 Stradale basis for model development

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Alfa Romeo 33 Stradale design of the model development

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Alfa Romeo 33 Stradale detailed design of the model development

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Alfa Romeo 33 Stradale in its final form

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In 1987, Zbigniew Maurer drew this style study of a two-seater sports car by hand

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Concept car of the Alfa Romeo Spider (939)

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Two-seater coupé concept car by Zbigniew Maurer

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Alfa Romeo Giulietta Sprint next to the Alfa Romeo 147 concept car

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Wooden model of the Alfa Romeo Spider (939) concept car - rear view

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Wooden model of the Alfa Romeo Spider (939) concept car - front view

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Wooden model of the Alfa Romeo Spider (939) concept car - side view

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Summary

Zbigniew Maurer wanted Alfa Romeo to be as emotionally charged as it once was. His design inspired the brand's renaissance in the 1990s. From 1993, the Polish-born designer worked at the Centro Stile Alfa Romeo and was responsible for the design of the 156 model and the Diva concept car.

This article contains the following chapters

Designer with a heart for Alfa
The beginning of a career
Alfa Romeo Diva
Alfa models from Maurer
Biography

Estimated reading time: 4min

Preview (beginning of the article)

He speaks quietly, calmly. And says sentences like this: "Everyone thinks that Italian designers work very artistically." But this impression is not true, is premature: "They are very precise. Very scientifically. They work rigorously." At least that was the case in the past, when Turin (and Milan, in second place) formed the nucleus of great automotive design for several decades. Zbigniew Maurer knows this era, although when he finally became a designer, he witnessed its demise. He is an Alfista through and through. The passion caught him as a schoolboy in Poland, where an acquaintance of his parents drove an Alfa 1750 GTV - an unheard-of frivolity for Poland in Soviet times.

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