In the spirit of Art Deco

Zwanziger, M.

Original illustrations and designs for carpets or wallpaper

Published 1934-1941
Item ID 78447
€875.00

excl. VAT

Berlin, unpublished, 1934-1941. 23 separate designs including 17 for carpets and wallpaper (mainly in Art Deco style), four botanical drawings, and two detailed designs on graph paper; and one printed and partly handwritten certificate. Various sizes (30.5 x 22.0 cm up to 64.0 x 43.5 cm [two on graph paper very large, 70.2 x 59.0 cm, folded]).

A rich, varied collection of works by a single, German artist, Marie Zwanziger (later: Marie Knippschild). Both the apparently "free" studies in of flowering plants (watercolours) and the somewhat later gouache textile and wallpaper designs nearly all have a distinct Jugendstil, transitional to Art Deco "feel". Some with monogram MZ. Most are dated, probably by the artist. A Third Reich certificate in Fraktur (dated 1936) states that she completed a study at a Deutsche Hoch- und Fachschule. One design has a partial stamp, "Technicum für Textil", i.e., of the Staatlichen Technikum für Textil-Industrie, a research institute in Reutlingen which laid the scientific and technical foundations for the emerging textile industry in Reutlingen, a large town in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Some light wear to edges; a few items folded, but mostly in very good condition.

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