MARIANNE BRANDT (1893-1983) FOR RUPPELWERK METALLWARENFABRIK, GOTHA
NAPKIN HOLDER, CIRCA 1930
enamelled metal, printed maker's marks
19.6cm wide, 11cm high
Literature: The Times Magazine, 16 March 2002, p.51 Nest: A Quarterly of Interiors, Spring 2002, where this lot is illustrated in Andrew McIntosh Patrick's home at 34 Craven Street, near Trafalgar Square, London.Note: Marianne Brandt was a German painter, sculptor, photographer, metalsmith, and designer who studied at the Bauhaus art school in Weimar and later became head of the Bauhaus Metall-Werkstatt (Metal Workshop) in Dessau in 1928. She joined Ruppelwerk GmbH in Gotha in 1929 as head of the "design department for metal goods in coated steel panel". Besides making new designs, she was also in charge of revising the Ruppelwerk's artisan products. It was her declared goal to "bring the confusing and uncharming product range of the Ruppelwerk in line with the Bauhaus philosophy".