Tower mark/WMF/Ikora with no. "915". 1928-1935. TÜMPEL, Wolfgang (design) (1903 Bielefeld - 1978 Herdecke)

Ikora metal, silver-plated top, silver-coloured underside, ebonized wooden feet. H 9 cm, Ø 35.5 cm.

Simple, shallow bowl on 3 ball feet. Hardly any signs of age/use.

Wolfgang Tümpel was a Bauhaus designer and goldsmith. Studied at the Bauhaus Weimar under Itten, Klee, Slutzky, Schlemmer and Moholy-Nagy, then studied at Burg Giebichenstein Halle. Later lecturer at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts. A version of the offered design was exhibited in 2019 in the special exhibition for the Bauhaus anniversary "Bauhaus_Sachsen" in the Grassi Museum Leipzig.

Literature : Vollmer.