Background
The daughter of prosperous Swiss immigrants, Marie Zimmermann was born and raised in Brooklyn, New New York
The daughter of prosperous Swiss immigrants, Marie Zimmermann was born and raised in Brooklyn, New New York
She was educated at the Packer Collegiate Institute, Art Students’ League and Pratt Institute Pratt Institute.
Life and She lived and ran her studio at the National Arts Club in New York from about 1910 to 1937. Zimmermann designed metalwork in a wide range of media (gold, silver, bronze, copper and iron) and jewelry, as well as some furniture. Much of her eclectic work was inspired by diverse historical precedents, including ancient Egyptian, Classical and Chinese forms.
She experimented freely with materials, surface, color and applied ornament.
The Marie Zimmermann Farm was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. Works by Marie Zimmermann are included in the collections of the Columbus Museum, Georgia (the Persian Box, in silver and ivory with applied lapis lazuli, pearls, jade and malachite), the Art Institute of Chicago, Carnegie Museum of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Museum of Fine Arts-Boston and Wolfsonian-FIU.
