Design: Marianne Brandt, um 1930
Manufacture: Ruppelwerk, Metallwarenfabrik, Gotha.
Mark: stamped on the bottom „Ruppel, geschützt“.
Measures: height 11”, diameter foot 5,5”.

_{State: Tracks in candleholder, litlle tracks on the bottom, precision mouldings in good condition.}

Stem in form of a cylindric tube, flat foot in form of a disc, both connected with a nodus. Above a plate and crown placed for a shade; stem supports the candle, height adjustable. Lid turned up, with bayonet joint. Brass, white alloy, red applying lacquer. This type of candleholders was offered with different glass covers; cup shaped expands to the top and slim line top rejuvenated. After a documentation of the Bauhaus Archive Berlin the glass covers are anonymous works, which are distributed already before your activity for the Ruppelwerk.

Marianne Brandt is a key designer of the 20th century.
As a student at the Bauhaus and from 1926 on first deputy head than head of the metal workshop, she became the school’s most successful lighting designer.

From 1929 to 1932 she leads the department for design in the metal ware factory „Ruppelwerke” in Gotha, Germany. She owned the modernization of the whole range.
For Walter Gropius she reported on her activities: "It was mainly lacquer ware made of steel. The techniques are: punching, pressing, pulling, spot welding .... I sought to replace the so-called luxury items to things with a real need and more practical requirements … taking full account of the characteristics of fabrication ... Rather than painted or with many templates sprayed 'designs' I had the effect by screwing or by rivets of pieces various colours.” (Cp. BHA 10797/1-6, acc. Diss. Weise 1995)
About the formerly hand laterns of the Ruppelwerke she wrote, that the forms aren’t redesigned since 40 to 50 years. They are just expensive tools and dust catchers.
Marianne Brandt designs were simple and strong on the function, the forms and details ran with the fabrication. As Gropius queries, she worked successfully in the meaning of the Bauhaus.

Source: Quittenbaum auction 37, 17.09.2007 Lot 21, 720 €.