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Florence Knoll Bassett (b. May 24, 1917) is an American architect and furniture designer who studied under Mies van der RoheandEliel Saarinen.
In 1938, Hans Knoll founded his furniture company by that name in New York. In 1943, Florence convinced Hans she could help bring in business to his company by expanding into interior design by working with architects. With her architectural background and design flair, she succeeded. They married in 1946, she became a full business partner and together they founded Knoll Associates.
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Safronova Antoneena Federovna, Odessa Food Trust box and cover, ca. 1922. Printed paper on board
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
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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.
Alma Buscher +
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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Properzia de’ Rossi, Enameled gold pendant in the form of a laurel wreath, 1520 - 1530. Pearl, gold, diamond, enamel, at the center is a cherry stone carved with minute heads. 40 x 20 mm, Palazzo Pitti, Via Uffizi
The 16th century was not a generous century towards women, who were mainly relegated to the domestic sphere. There was, however, one who deserved a biography among the 168 excellent artists told by Giorgio Vasari: "Properzia de’ Rossi from Bologna, a virtuous young woman, not only in household matters, like the others, but in infinite sciences that not only women, but all men envied her. She was not ashamed to try her hand at sculpture” – thus becoming the first sculptress of whom we have news.
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