A Hamburg silver box made by Hilde Vollers - image-1
A Hamburg silver box made by Hilde Vollers - image-2
A Hamburg silver box made by Hilde Vollers - image-1A Hamburg silver box made by Hilde Vollers - image-2

Lot 711 Dα

A Hamburg silver box made by Hilde Vollers

Auction 1117 - overview Cologne
16.11.2018, 10:30 - Decorative Arts
Estimate: 700 €
Result: 992 € (incl. premium)
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A Hamburg silver box made by Hilde Vollers

Square box with hinged lid and diagonal applied decor. W 10; D 10; H 3 cm, weight 216 g.
Artist's signet of Hilde Vollers, presumably 1930s.

Following her apprenticeship under Christoph Kay and Otto Stüber, Hilde Vollers began further training at the Kunstgewerbeschule Hamburg and the Lehrwerkstätten in Munich in the 1920s. Today, her designs are exhibited in the Museum Angewandte Kunst in Frankfurt and the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe.

Literature

For information on Hilde Vollers cf. cat.: Frauensilber, Silberschmiedinnen der Bauhauszeit, Karlsruhe 2011, p. 167 ff.