{"id":31214,"date":"2026-07-14T09:31:29","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T07:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bauhaus.de\/?post_type=artist&#038;p=31214"},"modified":"2026-07-14T10:11:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T08:11:28","slug":"marianne-brandt","status":"publish","type":"artist","link":"https:\/\/www.bauhaus.de\/en\/discover\/artist\/marianne-brandt\/","title":{"rendered":"Marianne Brandt"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class='wp-block-ho-pattern header-text' data-pattern='ho\/header-kunstler'>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-ho-div\">\n\n<div  class='color-bg-highlight color-fg-highlight header-space header-height-read-only padding-bottom-6'>\n\n<div  class='container-fluid cf-gutter-5 cf-side-5'>\n\n<div  class='row'>\n\n<div  class='col col-xs-12 col-md-offset-1 col-md-7'>\n\n<div  class='margin-bottom-3'><div class=\"wp-block-ho-slot \"><div class=\"margin-bottom-3\">\n\t<swup-back>Back<\/swup-back>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div  class='row'>\n\n<div  class='col col-xs-12 col-md-offset-1 col-md-7'>\n\n<div  class='margin-bottom-7'>\n<h1 class='ho-sd-h2' style=\"white-space: normal;\">Marianne Brandt<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div  class='row'>\n\n<div  class='col col-xs-12 text-align-center col-md-offset-1 col-md-3'>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-ho-div\">\t<div class=\"wp-block-ho-lane-wrapper\" data-orientation=\"horizontal\" data-lane-item-count=\"3\">\n\t\t<div class=\"container-fluid header-biography-list  cf-gutter-1 cf-side-1\">\n\t\t\t<ul class=\"wp-block wp-block-ho-grid row\">\n\t\t\t\t\n<li class=\"wp-block-ho-lane-item col col-xs-12\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-ho-div\">\t<p class='ho-sd-metadata'>Designer, paintress, sculptress and photographer<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n\n\n<li class=\"wp-block-ho-lane-item col col-xs-12\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-ho-div\">\t<p class='ho-sd-metadata'>born on 1 October 1893 in Chemnitz<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n\n\n<li class=\"wp-block-ho-lane-item col col-xs-12\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-ho-div\">\t<p class='ho-sd-metadata'>died on 18 June 1983 in Kirchberg<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n\n\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div  class='col col-xs-12 col-md-3 col-md-offset-5 ho-pattern-optional-image'>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-ho-div\"><figure itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" class=\"lazy-media-inline \" role=\"group\" aria-describedby=\"media_enN14K\">\n<script type=\"application\/json\">{\n\"id\" : 31735,\n\"sizes\" : {\"medium\":{\"file\":\"bha26_portrait_marianne-brandt-222x300.jpg\",\"width\":222,\"height\":300,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":9196},\"large\":{\"file\":\"bha26_portrait_marianne-brandt-759x1024.jpg\",\"width\":759,\"height\":1024,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":68590},\"medium_large\":{\"file\":\"bha26_portrait_marianne-brandt-768x1036.jpg\",\"width\":768,\"height\":1036,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":70152},\"1536x1536\":{\"file\":\"bha26_portrait_marianne-brandt-1139x1536.jpg\",\"width\":1139,\"height\":1536,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":140283},\"2048x2048\":{\"file\":\"bha26_portrait_marianne-brandt-1519x2048.jpg\",\"width\":1519,\"height\":2048,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":229971},\"small\":{\"file\":\"bha26_portrait_marianne-brandt-326x440.jpg\",\"width\":326,\"height\":440,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":16451},\"semi\":{\"file\":\"bha26_portrait_marianne-brandt-430x580.jpg\",\"width\":430,\"height\":580,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":26042},\"mobile\":{\"file\":\"bha26_portrait_marianne-brandt-534x720.jpg\",\"width\":534,\"height\":720,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":36808},\"hd\":{\"file\":\"bha26_portrait_marianne-brandt-949x1280.jpg\",\"width\":949,\"height\":1280,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":101670},\"full\":{\"file\":\"bha26_portrait_marianne-brandt-1424x1920.jpg\",\"width\":1424,\"height\":1920,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":206257},\"original\":{\"file\":\"bha26_portrait_marianne-brandt.jpg\",\"width\":2024,\"height\":2729}},\n\"alt\" : \"Portrait of a person with short hair, in a striped sweater, serious expression, against a bright background scene.\",\n\"path\" : \"\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/07\\\/\",\n\"video\" : null,\n\"autoplay\" : null,\n\"youtube\" : null,\n\"youtubelabel\" : \"play\",\n\"brightness\" : 100,\n\"crop\" : {\"x\":0.5,\"y\":0.5},\n\"background\" : true,\n\"scale\" : 1,\n\"zoom\" : false,\n\"annotations\" : null}<\/script>\n<div class=\"height-container \" style=\"padding-bottom:120%; 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In 1911 she began studying painting at the School for Fine Arts in Weimar. In 1919 she married the painter Erik Brandt. The couple lived together in Oslo and Paris for a number of years. After she returned to Germany, Brandt initially studied sculpture in Weimar. In 1924 the artist switched to the Bauhaus, where she was trained by L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Moholy-Nagy in the metal workshop. She celebrated her first successes as a designer and became acting head of the workshop in 1928. Inspired by the Parisian avant-garde as well as by Moholy-Nagy, Brandt also began to occupy herself intensively with photography. She created self-portraits, photocollages and experimental images. Instead of accepting an offer to receive training in Walter Peterhans\u2019s photo class, she decided to leave the Bauhaus in 1929. Several of her photographs could be seen that same year in the section \u201cPhotography at the Bauhaus\u201d at the \u201cFilm und Foto\u201d exhibition in Stuttgart. After briefly working at Walter Gropius\u2019s construction office in Berlin, Brandt worked as a designer for the Ruppelwerke metalware factory in Gotha until 1932. She continued to shoot photographs, particularly private ones. When the Nazis came to power, Brandt lost her job and returned back to Chemnitz. From 1949 to 1954, she taught at the University of Applied Arts in Dresden and the institute of industrial design at School of Art and Design Berlin-Weissensee. She then designed lamps and radiators for production in East Germany and once again dedicated her attention to painting and photography. Marianne Brandt died in Kirchberg on 18 June 1983.<br><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marianne Brandt, n\u00e9e Liebe, was born in Chemnitz on 1 October 1893. 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