Maker/Artist
Brandt, Marianne
German metalworker and designer, 1893-1984
Brandt studied painting and sculpture at the Grand-Ducal Saxony Academy of Fine Arts in Weimar from 1911 to 1917 and she studied at the Bauhaus in Weimar and Dessau from 1923 to 1928 or from 1924 to 1926. She and Max Sinowjewitsch Krajewski designed the lamp fittings for the Bauhaus building in Dessau from ca. 1925 to 1926. She served as assistant in the Bauhaus metal workshop from 1927 and then filled the position of its acting head in 1928. In 1929 Brandt was employed in Walter Gropius's architectural office in Berlin. From 1930 to 1933 Brandt worked at the Ruppel Metal Goods factory in Gotha, Germany. From 1949 to 1951 Brandt was a lecturer at the Dresden Academy of Fine Art in the wood metal and ceramics department and from 1951 to 1954 she worked at the Academy of Applied Art in Berlin. German metalworker and designer; studied and worked at the Bauhaus in the 1920s.
