Bauhaus Women: A Global Perspective
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Overview
Forty-five key women of the Bauhaus movement.
Bauhaus Women: A Global Perspective reclaims the other half of Bauhaus history, yielding a new understanding of the radical experiments in art and life undertaken at the Bauhaus and the innovations that continue to resonate with viewers around the world today.
The story of the Bauhaus has usually been kept narrow, localised to its original time and place and associated with only a few famous men such as Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer, Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky and László Moholy-Nagy.
Bauhaus Women: A Global Perspective bursts the bounds of this slim history by revealing fresh Bauhaus faces: Forty-five Bauhaus women unjustifiably forgotten by most history books. This book also widens the lens to reveal how the Bauhaus drew women from many parts of Europe and beyond, and how, through these cosmopolitan female designers, artists and architects, it sent the Bauhaus message out into the world and to a global audience.
Forty-five key women of the Bauhaus movement.
The first major exploration of the role of women in the Bauhaus
Publishing on the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Bauhaus
Lavishly illustrated and designed, a beautiful book for those interested in the role of women in art, architecture and design.
Written by acclaimed Bauhaus scholars Elizabeth Otto and Patrick Rössler
Introduction
Friedl Dicker
Marguerite Friedlaender Wildenhain
Gertrud Grunow
Gunta Stölzl
Lydia Driesch-Foucar
Ilse Fehling
Margarete Heymann-Loebenstein
Benita Koch-Otte
Lou Scheper-Berkenkamp
Lore Leudesdorff-Engstfeld
Ré Soupault
Anni Albers
Gertrud Arndt
Lucia Moholy
Ise Gropius
Irene Bayer
Lis Beyer-Volger
Marianne Brandt
Ruth Hollós
Katt Both
Lena Meyer-Bergner
Margaretha Reichardt
Otti Berger
Margarete Dambeck
Florence Henri
Grit Kallin-Fischer
Margarete Leischner
Wera Meyer-Waldeck
Lotte Stam-Beese
Etel Mittag-Fodor
Karla Grosch
Margaret Leiteritz
Edith Tudor-Hart
Ivana Tomljenovic
Bella Ullmann-Broner
Kitty Fischer van der Mijll Dekker
Zsuzska Bánki
Ricarda Schwerin
Grete Stern
Michiko Yamawaki
Irena Blühová
Judit Kárász
Hilde Hubbuch
Stella Steyn
Lilly Reich
Sources
Acknowledgments
Spotlights 45 Bauhaus women and their courage and creativity, as well as their progressive ideas and inspiring stories.
Readers will be satisfied to find a mixture of known and lesser-known names.
By offering crisply concise and inviting profiles of 45 Bauhaus women, and through striking photos and graphics, Otto and Rossler celebrate the extraordinary richness of the contributions made by women in textiles as well as in supposedly “masculine” arts like architecture.
An eye-opening survey of arresting photomontages, choreography and costumes that evoke 1970s punk or 1980s new romanticism as much the totalitarian regimes under which these artists worked.
Credit, finally, is being given to the women who helped make the Bauhaus what it was... Bauhaus Women: A Global Perspective, brings 45 women back into view.
Bauhaus Women aims to make up for this century of misogyny by showcasing these neglected women artists.
- Title: Bauhaus Women: A Global Perspective
- Authors: E. Otto, Patrick Rössler
- Publisher: Herbert Press
- Print Publication Date: 2019
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Pages: 192
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781912217977, 9781912217960, 1912217961, 191221797X
- Resource ID: LLS:9781912217977
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2025-04-22T13:01:51Z
Elizabeth Otto is a professor of modern and contemporary art history at The State University of New York at Buffalo. She has published widely on gender issues in Germany's visual culture of the 1920s and 1930s, especially at the Bauhaus. Her books include Tempo, Tempo! The Bauhaus Photomontages of Marianne Brandt and the co-edited collections Passages of Exile and the New Woman International: Representations in Photography and Film.
Patrick Rössler is Professor of Empirical Communication Research and Methods at the University of Erfurt, Germany. His research has concentrated on media effects, political communication, and the history of visual communication. Rössler has worked as a curator on a diverse range of topics from art and media history in Germany, France, the USA and Japan. He wrote The Bauhaus and Public Relations (2014), and recently co-edited Bauhaus Bodies: Gender, Sexuality, and Body Culture in Modernism's Legendary Art School with Elizabeth Otto (2019).