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Description

Marianne Brandt (1893-1983) for Ruppelwerke Germany (attributed)
Art Deco Bauhaus geometric metal box with a wooden interior.
Period 1930's.
Measurements: 10.5x8x3.5cm (4.1x3.1x1.3 inches)
Not marked.
Condition: visible signs of age, spots, scratches and the metal has become slightly duller (see photos)
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German painter, sculptor, photographer and designer Marianne Brandt, born October 1, 1893 in Chemnitz - died June 18 in Halle.
Marianne Brandt studied at the Bauhaus where she was put in of the metal workshop in 1928. Her lamps, ashtrays and tea sets are considered the precursors of modern industrial design.
Biography
Brandt was born in Chemnitz as Marianne Liebe. Her father Franz Bruno was musically gifted, traveled to Italy many times and took care of art collections in the city. The three sisters (Marianne was the youngest) had inherited father's musicality. They each played a different instrument so that making music together became part of everyday life. The girls learned French and German and went to boarding school in England and France for a year, as was customary at the time for upper-class ladies.
Marianne attended the Hochschule fu00fcr Bildende Kunst in Weimar, something that was certainly not common for girls at the time. In 1919 she married the Norwegian painter Erik Brandt with whom she traveled in Norway and France. Before her studies at the Bauhaus in 1924, she practiced painting.