debauhaus1-5, Exercise 2: One woman's work

Model answer (one possible choice):

Marianne Brandt studied at the Bauhaus and worked in the metal workshop from 1924 (check the date). She designed objects such as tea infusers, teapots, ashtrays and lamps, several of which are among the most reproduced Bauhaus designs, and she later led the metal workshop for a period (check the details and the dates).

Evidence to confirm it (check each):
- The objects themselves in museum collections, with their catalogue records (for example the Bauhaus-Archiv in Berlin), which give the date, the maker and the workshop.
- The school's own records and publications of the period, which show what was made and who was named.
- Photographs of the workshop and the objects, and letters or accounts by Brandt and her colleagues.
- Specialist histories, which discuss the attribution, and note where a design is credited to more than one person.

The strongest evidence is the dated object in a museum together with a document from the 1920s naming her; a modern shop description is the weakest.