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The Museum of Avant-garde

Marianne Brandt

Germany (1893—1983)

Marianne Liebe studied art at a private school in Weimar and married Erik Brandt in 1921. In 1924, she enrolled at the Bauhaus under Moholy-Nagy, where she studied industrial design and photography. In 1926, she moved to Paris and continued experimenting with photomontage. After separating, she returned to the Bauhaus and served as deputy head of the metal workshop, while continuing to work with photography. In 1929, she began working for Gropius in Berlin. She also became head of the Design Department at the Ruppelwerk Factory in Gotha. She spent her final years in Chemnitz, working as a painter, weaver and sculptor.

László Moholy-Nagy / Walter Gropius