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Marianne BRANDT Lamp Germany 1939 #1096772

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Marianne BRANDT Lamp  Germany 1939 #1096772
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Scarce Bauhaus lamp (model 1089) designed by Marianne Brandt, and produced by Kandem (Korting & Matthieson), Leipzig. Marianne Brandt working with Hin Bredenieck, in 1927 created the definitive form for small adjustable bedside and desk lights, with bell-shaped lacquered steel shades (intended to give a directional focused and evenly distributed source of light), gently curved necks and wedge-shaped feet from which the cord disappears neatly out of at the rear. Dark green. Oblique shade. Marks: Kandem Logo. Approx. 15.75" ht. <p> Literature: Bauhaus Lighting Kandemlight, Klaus Weber, Olaf Thormann, et al, 2002, pg.143. <p> Marianne BRANDT (1893-1983)
Brandt studied painting and sculpture at the Grand Ducal College of Fine Arts in Weimar. She returned to Weimar in 1924 to enroll at the Bauhaus, where she entered the metal workshop, under the newly appointed head holy-Nagy. Moholy-Nagy assisted by the silversmith Christian Dell, took over as the metal workshop's Form Master from Johannes Itten in 1923. In 1928 Brandt became temporary head of the metal workshop. In 1929 she left the Bauhaus to work in Walter Gropius's architectural office in Berlin (1928-29) before being appointed as a designer for the Ruppelwerk GmbH, a metalware manufacturer in Gotha (1929-1932). In 1932 she returned to Chemnitz and worked independently, returning also to painting. In 1949-1951 she taught at the Dresden College of Free and Applied Arts as well as the Institut Fur Anfgewandte Kunst in ...
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