The Bauhaus Kooperation Berlin Dessau Weimar has suggested to invite the free state of Saxony to become part of the Bauhaus Verbund 2019. On 2 July 2015, the curatorship of the Bauhaus Verbund 2019 will decide if Saxony will be a future member. Saxony's secretary of the interior, Markus Ulbig, said there are many traces of the Bauhaus in the free state and Saxony will thus happily accept the invitation. Ulbig recognizes the chance to show Saxony's classical modern side in architecture. Bauhaus traces can be found in multiple Saxonian places. Josef Alber's, for example, designed the staircase window for the Grassi Museum in Leipzig and Oskar Schlemmer planned a one-family house in Zwenkau near Leipzig. Furthermore the Saxonian company Kamdem modernized the lighting industry in cooperation with the Bauhaus. Not least one of the most popular Bauhaus students, the metal designer Marianne Brandt whose works are synonymous with the Bauhaus until today, came from Chemnitz and spent most of her life there. Today the Marianne-Brandt Prize is annually offered.
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