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During a time when women were denied admittance to formal art academies, the Bauhaus provided them with an unprecedented level of opportunity for both education and artistic development, though generally only in weaving and other fields considered at the time to be appropriate for women. [2] [3] The Bauhaus was founded by the architect Walter ...
African Chair, collaboration with Marcel Breuer 1921 Oskar Schlemmer's weaving class on the steps of the Bauhaus in 1927. Within Stölzl’s first year at the Bauhaus, she began what she referred to as the “women’s department”, which due to the underlying gender roles within the school, eventually became synonymous with the weaving workshop. [3]
Marianne Brandt (1 October 1893 – 18 June 1983) was a German painter, sculptor, photographer, metalsmith, and designer who studied at the Bauhaus art school in Weimar and later became head of the Bauhaus Metall-Werkstatt (Metal Workshop) in Dessau in 1928. Today, Brandt's designs for household objects such as lamps and ashtrays are considered ...
In 1930, Albers received her Bauhaus diploma for innovative work: her use of a new material, cellophane, to design a sound-absorbing and light-reflecting wallcovering. [17] When Gunta Stölzl left the Bauhaus in 1931, Albers took over her role as head of the weaving workshop, making her one of the few women to hold such a senior role at the school.
The area of women at the Bauhaus. 1926. In: Hans Maria Wingler: The Bauhaus 1919–1933. Weimar, Dessau, Berlin, and the Succession in Chicago since 1937. Cologne, 1962, 3rd edition 1975, p. 126. Joost Schmidt: Teaching and work at the Bauhaus 1919-32. With contributions by Heinz Loew and Helene Nonne-Schmidt. Düsseldorf: Edition Marzona, 1984.
Published in English in 2019 as Bauhaus Women: A Global Perspective ISBN 9781912217960; Weltge-Wortmann, (1993). Bauhaus Textiles: Women Artists and the Weaving Workshop. 1st ed. London: Thames Hudson. ISBN 9780500280348; Marisa Vadillo, Women designers at the Bauhaus: The history of a silent revolution.
Hannes Meyer 1928. Starting in 1926, she attended the Bauhaus school, where she studied with Josef Albers, Wassily Kandinsky, Joost Schmidt, and Gunta Stölzl.She enrolled to study the more "feminine" subject of weaving, but later, Beese got accepted into an architecture course from Hannes Meyer as the first woman to study in the building department of Bauhaus Dessau.
In 1920, she enrolled at the Bauhaus in Weimar where she studied in the studio's weaving workshop. She was later employed in the workshop, working closely with Gunta Stölzl. Otte left the Bauhaus in 1925. [2] Kitchen of Haus am Horn. Although she worked primarily as a weaver, Otte, on a number of occasions, produced work beyond the medium.