Metal workshop at the Bauhaus

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The metal workshop at the Bauhaus was a workshop at the State Bauhaus . It existed from 1920 to 1933, first in Weimar and from 1925 in Dessau .

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Two table lamps based on designs by Wilhelm Wagenfeld from 1924
Coffee and tea service by Wilhelm Wagenfeld
Tea extract jug MT 49 by Marianne Brandt, 1924

The metal workshop did not start operating until 1920. At first, the workshop was also called gold, silver and coppersmiths , as traditional metalworking techniques were taught. Work masters were Alfred Kopka (1921), Christian Dell (1922–1925) and Naum Slutzky (1919–1924).

From 1920 to 1922 Johannes Itten was the artistic director of the workshop. Mainly everyday objects such as jugs, cans, cans, candlesticks were created. The shapes of the ball and circle were often used for the vessels and some were created according to the rule of the golden ratio . Itten resigned because the Bauhaus director Walter Gropius carried out commissioned work. In 1923, László Moholy-Nagy took over as head of the metal workshop. He was open to new materials such as glass and plexiglass. From 1923, the workshop dealt with the construction of lamps, also with regard to the equipment of the model house Am Horn built in 1923 for the Bauhaus exhibition of 1923 . The Bauhaus lamp by Carl Jacob Jucker and Wilhelm Wagenfeld was created . Hin Bredendieck , together with Marianne Brandt and Hermann Gautel, realized new types of lighting, such as the Kandem lamp. One of the most important works in the workshop is the tea extract jug MT 49 by Marianne Brandt.

From 1925, the workshop focused on the production of lights for the newly built Bauhaus Dessau building . In 1928 the new Bauhaus director Hannes Meyer restructured the workshop and temporarily made Marianne Brandt director. In 1928 the workshop was incorporated into the expansion workshop headed by Alfred Arndt .

Due to the design and production of new lighting fixtures that went into series production at lamp manufacturers, the metal workshop became one of the most productive and successful workshops at the Bauhaus.

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literature

  • Magdalena Droste: Die Metallwerkstatt in: bauhaus 1919–1933 , Cologne, 2019, pp. 122–135
  • Magdalena Droste: finishing workshop - metal in: bauhaus 1919–1933 , Cologne, 2019, pp. 280–284

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