Out of the Display Case: Jewellery by Hans Przyrembel

Hans Przyrembel studied at the Bauhaus in Weimar and Dessau from 1924 to 1928. There, he was a student and employee of Marianne Brandt in the metal workshop. It was here that he produced the tea service that Lucia Moholy captured in a photograph, which is both matter-of-fact and beautifully presented. A print of this photograph can be seen in the Bauhaus Museum Dessau. He later set up his own workshop in Leipzig, where he designed and produced jewellery as well as lamps, tea and coffee services. Although the nickel silver necklace that has now been donated was not created at the Bauhaus, its simple, ornamental design is a special testimony to Przyrembel’s craftsmanship.

The donor, Bernd Freese, who has built up a special Bauhaus collection of lesser-known Bauhaus artists over decades, has been associated with the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation for many years. In addition to loans for exhibitions and purchases from his collection, he also supports the foundation time and again by donating outstanding objects.

In conversation with Werner Möller and Theresia Ilchmann, Bernd Freese explains not only what particularly interests him about the artist and designer Hans Pryzrembel, using the example of the necklace presented for the first time, but also how and why the Bauhaus became the focus of his passion for collecting.