Marianne Brandt

Marianne Brandt

Marianne Brandt (1 October 1893 – 18 June 1983) 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. Today, Brandt's designs for household objects such as lamps and ashtrays are considered timeless examples of modern industrial design. Although she pursued painting early in life and attended a private art school and the Grand Ducal College of Art in Weimar from 1912-1917, where she produced many works in the Expressionists style and also studied sculpture, the artist is best known for her sleek and elegant industrial designs.Brandt also worked with photography at the Bauhaus, taking photographs that featured unusual angles—in particular, self-portraits—and disorienting and distorting reflections in glass and metal surfaces.She worked as head of the design department of the company Ruppelwerk Metallwarenfabrik GmbH in Gotha until 1932. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Marianne Brandt has received more than 141,587 page views. Her biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Marianne Brandt is the 46th most popular artist (down from 44th in 2019), the 2,107th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,885th in 2019) and the 9th most popular German Artist.