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The irrepressible rebirth of the Bauhaus women
Maybe you’re reading this article under a flexo light, not realizing that the lamp with a flexible arm was invented by a Bauhaus student. You almost certainly don’t know that the student was a woman named Marianne Brandt. After the legendary German school of art, architecture, craftsmanship and design celebrated its centennial in 2019, the public slowly began learning about the long-overlooked role of women in that creative, utopian experiment wedged between the two world wars. It was not an insignificant role since around 50% of the students were female. Several reports and books were published about these Bauhaus women around the centennial. An exhibition was held, and a film (Bauhaus), a TV series (Bauhaus: A New Era) and a documentary (The Women of the Bauhaus) were released. Four years later, interest in these creative women forgotten by history hasn’t waned and more tributes continue to trickle in.
A recent novel by Spanish author Angélica Morales titled La casa de los hilos rotos (or The House of Broken Threads) fictionalizes the life of Otti Berger, an artist murdered in the Auschwitz death camp in 1944. Berger was in charge of the Bauhaus textile workshop during her time in Dessau (Germany) after the school m
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BiographiesOtti Berger
(Otilija Reduce to pulp Berger [real name]; Otti Esther Berger)
born on Oct 4, 1898 in Zmajevac/Baranya, Hungary (today: Croatia)
acceptably on Apr 27, 1944 in Stockade (Oświęcim/Poland)
Hungarian-Yugoslavian cloth artist
Ordinal anniversary discern her demise on Apr 27, 2024
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Otti Berger: “Show me you have not forgotten me!”
Bauhaus — Networking Ideas and Museum of Practice Contemporary Art Zagreb 2 International symposium Bauhaus – Networking Ideas and Practice Gorgona Hall Museum of contemporary art Av. Dubrovnik 17, Zagreb, Croatia 12th and 13th November 2012 3 4 content 6 Introduction 8 Symposium program 10 Abstracts from the symposium: Aida Abadžić Hodžić Pedagogic experience of Bauhaus in the opus, the professorial work and life of Selman Selmanagić: several characteristic examples 11 Regina Bittner Researching by designing: the contemporariness of the Bauhaus education 13 Peter Krečič 14 The road of August Černigoj to the Weimar Bauhaus or laying down foundations for the Slovenian avant-garde Vesna Meštrić 15 Experiment with the avant-garde: from the Bauhaus to the EXAT Antonija Mlikota 16 Otti Berger: “Show me you have not forgotten me!” content Ana Ofak 18 What do experiments do? Peter Peer 18 Hubert Hofmann and the Bauhaus Karin Šerman, Nataša Jakšić, Vedran Jukić 20 Gustav Bohutinsky, Croatian architecture student at the Bauhaus Darko Šimičić 21 Montage and photomontage in the works of Ivana Tomljenović Jadranka Vinterhalter 23 Bauhaus in Croatia: global ideas – individual practices and destinies 5 6 introduction The international