About this work
Gerhard Marcks trained as a sculptor in Berlin before joining the Bauhaus in 1919, where he became artistic director of the school’s pottery workshop. In 1925 Marcks was approached by Jenaer Glaswerk to produce a new design for their heat-resistant glass coffee percolator, their original design being thought to look too much like a scientific instrument. The rubber fitting was originally produced in red, as on this example, but was made in black after the Second World War. The ebonised wooden handle has been attributed by some to Wilhelm Wagenfeld but there is no record of Wagenfeld’s involvement with the Sintrax percolator.
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