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The women of the Bauhaus
More than 100 years ago at Bauhaus school a group of young creative souls have been shaping design as we know, between those students there were a bunch of such intelligent and talented women but unfortunately less known until now.
Those women also shaped furniture and product design introducing their own techniques, special treatments and finishes on materials through Bauhaus school, later some of them have worked toghether with the most knowledge Bauhaus Masters but also there were other women of the Bauhaus less known with remarkable work, we like to make a little homage to them and share with you these female references in architecture, design, art&crafts.
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Alma Buscher designed toys that allowed children to imitate but also to unfold their own creativity. Her “Little Ship-Building Game” is still produced today.
Porträt Alma Siedhoff-Buscher / Foto: Atelier Hüttich-Oemler (Weimar), 1923, Reproduktion.
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Grete Stern +
She was a graphic artist, typographer and photographer.
Stern and Rosenberg worked together they founded the photo and advertising studio ‘ringl+pit’ a successful duo in the advertising business in Berlin and quickly made a name for themselves in the advertising and art scenes with their ironical photomontages, which often questioned traditional images of women.
Selbstporträt / Foto: Grete Stern, 1935, Neuvergrößerung 1958.
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Otti Berger +
Porträt Otti Berger / Foto: Lucia Moholy, Dessau 1927–1928.
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Gunta Stölzl +
Porträt Gunta Stölzl / Foto: unbekannt, um 1926.
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Lis Beyer-Volger +
Porträt Lis Beyer, Foto: unbekannt, 20.2.1929.
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Florence Henry +
Self-portrait, 1938 / Gelatin silver print, printed 1975 / Atlas Gallery
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Ellen (Rosenberg) Auerbach +
Porträt Ellen Auerbach / Foto: Grete Stern, um 1930.
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Elisabeth Kadow +
Elisabeth Kadow, portrait en face, c. 1929© Museum Folkwang Essen/ARTOTHEK
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Annelise Kretschmer +
Annelise Kretschmer (German, 1903–1987)
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Benita Koch-Otte +
Portrait of Benita Koch-Otte / Photo: Heinrich Koch, 1920s
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Lotte Rothschild +
Werner David Feist:Porträtstudie (Die Bauhaus-weberin Lotte Rotschild-Menzel auf dem Bauhausdach)
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Anny Wottitz +
Friedl Dicker in an open cabriolet (detail), photo: Lily Hildebrandt, 1920s.
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Margueritte Firedlaender-Wildenhain + +
Marguerite Wildenhain at work, ca. 1940 / unidentified photographer. Marguerite Wildenhain papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
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Her career flew through different ideological and cultural contexts. Color was essential to Bergner’s work, not simply because they provide different ways to articulate a medium, but also because they strengthen the work in a plastic sense. Later she married with Hannes Meyer and both have worked in architectural and industrial design works, although they did become involved in other fields.
Lotte Beese +
Portrait of Lotte Beese (detail), photo: unknown, around 1929.
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Petra Kessinger-Petitpierre + +
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Helene Nonné-Schmidt im Unterricht, 1953–1956. Foto Hans G. Conrad. Courtesy René Spitz
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Ruth Hollos-Consemüller +
1927 From left to right: Gunta Stölzl, Gertrud Arndt, unknown, Ruth Hollos.
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Hilde Hubbuch +
Karl Hubbuch: Karl und Hilde Hubbuch mit Nudelholz und Föhn, nach 1927; Münchner Stadtmuseum. © Karl Hubbuch Stiftung, Freiburg
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Portrait of Lilly Reich / Photo: Ernst Louis Beck, 1933.
later she has worked with Mies Van der Rohe
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Irene Bayer - Hecht +
Portrait of Irene Bayer / Photo: Grit Kallin-Fischer, 1927-28
Irene was the right hand of her husband, graphic designer Herbert Bayer. Her own photographs recorded everyday life at the Bauhaus school in Dessau since 1926.
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Self-portrait, Lucia Moholy, 1930.
as a photographer she has documented and shaped the Bauhaus school concept through his vision, she worked and married with László Moholy-Nagy.
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Anni Albers +
Porträt Anni Albers / Foto: Umbo (Otto Umbehr), 1929.
later she has worked with Josef Albers, they were both among the leading pioneers of twentieth-century modernism. +
“to comprehend art is to confide in a constant.” Annie Albers.
She and Josef lived their lives devoted to that irrefutable, uplifting constant.
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Gertrud Arndt +
‘Mask Portrait’ No. 13, Dessau / Photo: Gertrud Arndt, 1930.
later she has worked with Alfred Arndt
Double portrait of Alfred and Gertrud Arndt, Probstzella (Dorfstraße) / Photo: Gertrud Arndt, 1928.
Gunta Stölzl,Gertrud and Alfred Arndt as the Arndts move out of their studio at the Bauhaus Dessau on 27 November 1927. Photo Credits: Erich Consemüller. Courtesy of Bauhaus Archive / Museum of Design.
Images : Bauhaus Archive Berlin, Museum of Design. The Collection
Lotte Beese: Group photo in the weaving workshop, Dessau Bauhaus, 1928© Ariane und Maurizio Stam, Krimpen, NL / Photo © Bauhaus-Archiv, Berlin
These were just some of the women that shaped the Bauhaus School, enjoy and thanks to share.
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Eileen Gray - Villa E-1027
Sure you have heard about Eileen Gray’s Villa E-1027. A modern architectural masterpiece that Le Corbusier couldn’t overcome. Eileen Gray practicing was full of ideas in that time were still new, her innovative design was to create_ as she said_ “a dwelling as a living organism” and the main idea aimed to get a home which grows from its furniture.
One curious thing you’ll see on the images above, is how the bed is the central piece of the living-room, and from which all furniture and finishes were designed by her accurately. She created a number of pieces of loose and built-in furniture. The storage became integrated with instalations, as the electrical fittings or radiators, the built-in furniture had different openings some loose furniture with adjustable heights and so on.
Such thinking expanded into the building, like the shutters allowing complex modulations of shadow and breeze or the small windows located to allow a view when lying down. Every detail in this house is architectural poetry, but those Corbu’s murals destroyed her esence but remains a proof of Corbu’s most obsesive personality and vanity. He adored this house
For some reason Gray was contrary to Corbusier, Eileen defended “a house is not a machine to live in. It is the shell of man, his extension, his release, his emanation”. As some famous architectural critics said, “Eileen Gray brought essential qualities into building that other modernists lacked ”, RM.
Kathleen Eileen Moray Gray (9 August 1878 – 31 October 1976) was an Irish furniture designer and architect a pioneer of the Modern Movement in architecture.
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people visiting the villa in 2010 (before its restoration) + and+
images from: Bernard Touillon, Manuel Bougot and wikiarquitectura
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Fictional Landscapes
Definitely, Chernikhov’s graphic representation anticipated a Century, it was also influential on architects and designers from Zaha Hadid to Yourself.
‘ – Architectural Fictions.’ Eleanor Gawne, AA blog
.. Iakov Chernikov (1889-1951) published over fifty works in his lifetime, including six works between 1927-33. Collectively, they can be seen to propose a ‘detailed course of liberating, stimulating education in the fundamental disciplines of three-dimensional design as they are encountered in the complex functional and expressive tasks addressed by architecture’. ..
One of Chernikov’s works in the AA Library, Architectural fictions: 101 coloured prints, 101 architectural miniatures (Moscow/Leningrad, 1933), was lent to the Imagine Moscow exhibition, held at the Design Museum earlier in 2017…
Consisting of 101 pages of drawings, the book also included explanations of their technique and basic principles behind them. Although published in Russian, the title pages are printed in Russian, German, French and English (in English, the word ‘fiction’ is used instead of ‘fantasies’.) The subject of the drawings is the new age of the city and industrialisation, of what Saski calls the ‘possibilities of the near future, images which had arisen in the author’s mind’. The drawings have been described as finding appropriate expression for the institutions and architecture of post-revolutionary nation. Each image has an elaborate, not very informative description; axonometric projection is the preferred drawing style. His drawings have been considered not just fantasies but insights into the possibilities of technology; the designs feature free and bold curves, and steel trusses in industrial settings.
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