Brandt, Marianne (1893 Chemnitz - 1983 Kirchberg)

Lot 9003 limit € 650

Watercolor and pen on firm paper, steamer pier on the Elbe, lively scenery when a ship is unloaded, signed M. Brandt lower left, a comparable landscape on the banks of the Elbe dated 1958 shown in Brockhage/Lindner: Marianne Brandt. Did I ever think of art, Chemnitz 2001, fig. p. 188, minor signs of age, set in a wide frame behind glass, sheet approx. 49 x 63 cm, with frame approx. 76 x 95 cm, 1912-16 studies at the KHS Weimar, study trips to Norway and France, from 1924 renewed studies at the State Bauhaus in Weimar, from 1927 employee in the metal workshop of the Bauhaus, 1928/29 deputy director ibid., 1930-1932 head of the design department of the metal goods factory Ruppelwerk Gotha, 1933 return to Chemnitz , freelance artist, 1949-51 lecturer at the Dresden HS for applied art, 1951-54 at the HS Berlin-Weißensee, as a painter mainly still life and landscape watercolors of a naturalistic character