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Gunta Stolzl Anni Albers
Gunta Stolzl Anni Albers
Gunta Stolzl Anni Albers
Gunta Stlzl
(1897-1983)
GUNTA STLZL
BEST KNOWN FOR
German Textile Artist (Weaver)
The Bauhaus Schools only female master
Born
Died
Nationality
Known for
5 March 1897
Munich, Bavaria
22 April 1983 (Aged 86)
Zurich, Switzerland
Swiss
Weaving
His (Ittens) first words were about rhythm. First, one has to train
ones hand, make the fingers flexible; we do finger exercises just as
pianists do. We begin to feel what makes rhythm come into being,
endless circular motions, starting with the tips of the fingers, the
movement flows into the wrist, the elbows, the shoulders, up to the
heart. One has to feel it in every stroke, every line; no more drawing
without feeling, no more half-comprehended rhythm. Drawing is not
replicating what we see, but instead letting flow through the entire body
that which we feel through external stimulus (as well as through purely
internal stimulus, of course). It then comes out again as something that
is definitely ones own, some artistic creation or, more simply, pulsating
life. When we draw a circle, the emotion of the circle has to vibrate
throughout the entire body.
Excerpt from Diary entry, 18 October, 1919
(After Stolzls second day at the Bauhaus School)
Wassily Kandinsky
Paul Klee
Office of Gertrude Stein, American novelist, poet, playwright & art collector
(with works by Gunta Stlzl)
Printed Bags
Printed Fabric
http://www.guntastolzl.org/
Built by Stlzl's daughters, Yael Aloni and Monika Stadler, and her grandson, Ariel Aloni.
Bauhaus Design:
Anni Albers
(1897-1983)
ANNI ALBERS
BEST KNOWN FOR
German Textile Designer & Weaver
Writers and Printmaker
Inspired the use of fabrics as an art form,
both functionally & as wall hangings.
Born
Died
Nationality
Known for
12 June 1899
Berlin, Germany
9 May 1994 (Aged 86)
Orange, CT USA
American
Textiles, Graphic Design
Printmaker
1921-22 Women were barred from certain disciplines taught at the school, especially architecture. During
her second year, unable to get into a glass workshop with future husband Josef Albers, Anni Albers deferred
reluctantly to weaving. Her Bauhaus instructor was Gunta Stlzl, however, Albers soon learned to love
weaving's tactile construction challenges.
1925 Married to Josef Albers, who was by then a Junior Master at the Bauhaus. School moved to Dessau
that year, and a new focus on production rather than craft prompted Albers to develop many functionally,
unique textiles combining properties of light reflection, sound absorption, durability, and minimized
wrinkling and warping tendencies.
1925-28 - During this period, Albers was a student of Paul Klee. In 1928 when Gropius left Dessau, Josef &
Anni Albers moved into the teaching quarters next to both the Klees & and Kandinskys. At this time, the
Albers began to travel extensively, first through Italy, Spain, Canary Islands.
1933 After permanent closure of the Bauhaus, the Albers were invited by Philip Johnson to teach at the
experimental Black Mountain College in North Carolina.
Richard Buckminster "Bucky" Fuller was an American architect, systems theorist, author, designer and inventor. Fuller published
more than 30 books, coining or popularizing terms such as "Spaceship Earth", ephemeralization, and synergetic.
www.albersfoundation.org
Built by Stlzl's daughters, Yael Aloni and Monika Stadler, and her grandson, Ariel Aloni.