Bauhaus textiles : women artists and the weaving workshop

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Title:

Author:

Weltge-Wortmann, Sigrid.

ISBN:

9780500236581

Personal Author:

Weltge-Wortmann, Sigrid.

Publication Information:

Physical Description:

208 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, portrait s ; 30 cm

Abstract:

Reveals the role of women weavers in the Bauhaus - Weimar years - Johannes Itten and the weaving workshop - Georg Muche and the 1923 Bauhaus Exhibition - Dessau years - From craft to industry - The legacy - The gender issue - The question of identity - Bauhaus fabrics.

Corporate Subject:

Bauhaus.

Bauhaus. (OCoLC)fst00554499

Subject Term:

Textile design -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.

Women textile designers -- Germany.

Hand weaving -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.

Hand weaving. (OCoLC)fst00950888

Textile design. (OCoLC)fst01148616

Women textile designers. (OCoLC)fst01178620

Bauhaus. (DE-588)4130303-9

Künstlerin. (DE-588)4033430-2

Textilkunst. (DE-588)4059624-2

Webarbeit. (DE-588)4139378-8

Geographic Term:

Germany. (OCoLC)fst01210272

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Summary

The place of the Bauhaus in the history of 20th-century design is unchallengeable. Yet the Weaving Workshop, the longest standing and most successful of all Bauhaus workshops, has been neglected. Why? For one simple reason - its artists were almost all female. When these brilliantly talented women arrived at the school, they soon found that Gropius could not sustain his ringing declaration of equality between the beautiful and the strong gender. Textiles were to be women's work.