Three pieces, basis brass and copper, layer enamel. Tray top and bottom white enamelled, bowl and jug enamelled white outside, inside pinkish red.

Design: Albert Gustav Bunge, um 1950,
Manufacture: Metallwerkstätte A.G.Bunge, Fürstenfeldbruck near München, later Reit im Winkl, Germany.
Marked on the bottom of the jug an bowl: A.G. BUNGE.
Measurements: tray: length 19 x wide 8,6 cm; sugar: length 7,3 x wide 6,4 cm, jug: length 7 x wide 6,4 cm.

Although Albert Gustav Bunges (b. 1893 in Rathenow, d. 1967 in Salzburg) right hand has been corrupted at the beginning of the first world war, he pursued his artistic studies persistently. He visited the “Kunstschule Hannover” and then the “Academy of fine arts” in Munich. The German Werkbund, which was founded in Munich, impacted heavily on him. The Werkbund promoted the processing of commercial work, propagated the care of execution, material, objectivity, ornamental restraint as well as modern and assigned form. Bunge also wanted his audience never by virtuoso amaze excellence in its work, especially by "quality" convince. His artistic ambition aimed to simplest effects of daily life. As a member of the “Bayrischen Kunstgewerbevereins” he participated in various exhibitions in Munich glass palace.

Since the 1930s holding intensive studies with the techniques of enameling. Many works he featured in the trade fairs in “Grassi Museum” in Leipzig. Bunges metalworks of the 20s and 30s were especially on Art Déco elements, whereas his enameling works of the 50s were strongly committed to an objective, geometric design, that reflect the „Bauhaus-Zeitgeist“.

_{State: On the edge of the tray, chip exterior (compare image), beside that in very good condition}

Lit.: Die Kunst und Das schöne Heim, Jg. 50, 1951/52, S.475; ebenda, Jg. 55, 1956/57, S.79.

In: Sammlung Giorgio Silzer, Metallkunst im Umbruch, 1920er bis 1950er Jahre, Leipzig 2006, Kat.No.41, p.91.

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