(b Chemnitz, 1 Oct 1893; d Kirchberg, 18 June 1983). German metalworker and designer. One of the best-known of the BAUHAUS metalworkers, she studied painting and sculpture at the Kunstakademie in Weimar (1911-14). Around 1923 she went to study at the Bauhaus in Weimar and on the advice of L?szl? Moholy-Nagy joined the metal workshop there. The development of her work parallels the philosophical developments at the Bauhaus, from the craft orientation of the Weimar period (1919-25) to the interest in technology and industrial design of the Dessau period (1925-33). Her early designs, for example the hand-crafted nickel-silver teapot (1924; New York, MOMA) and brass and ebony tea-essence pot (1924; Berlin, Bauhaus-Archv), are based on pure geometrical forms
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