Marianne Brandt Research Paper

The role for women during the period of the Bauhaus and the works of Marianne Brandt When thinking about the Bauhaus and all of its accomplishments and designs, it is rare that one thinks of a woman's work. Despite this most likely having something to do with Walter Gropius’s intentions, men's domination in the art world and history being written largely by men, there were many distinct successful works by women that have been overshadowed by the male counterpart. Marianne Brandt was one of the Bauhaus’s most ingenious female students who made incredible contributions and progress for women whilst studying there. World War 1 saw new representations and equality of women which introduced the concept of the ‘New Woman’ and 1919 brought equality and suffrage to women. From 1911 to 1917 Brandt studied painting at the Royal Saxon Academy for the Fine Arts before attending a bauhaus exhibition and consequently burnt all of her previous works as she fell in love bauhaus. The Bauhaus produced a convoluted idea of equality but was one of the first schools to accept women and eventually Brandt took over as acting director for the metal …show more content…
This unity would come from borrowed ideas from the Deutscher Werkbund “The Bauhaus strives to combine all the arts – sculpture, painting, applied art and visual art – as the inseparable components of a new architecture" (Bauhaus-online.de 2015). There were many anxieties surrounding the heartless production of products and there were fears of the loss of purpose of art in society. Artistic vision was drifting from the manufacturer and Gropious’ ambition for Bauhaus was to reunite design back into the everyday life specializing in furniture ceramics weaving graphic prints painting glass and metal. Although the initial aim was a marriage of the arts through craftsmanship, some aspects of this were financially