A photograph of Bauhaus masters taken that year on the roof of the Bauhaus building shows 12 men and one woman—Gunta Stölzl, weaving master. Gunta Stolz © Sascha Wagner via Wikimedia License Under Public Domain. The Bauhaus emerged in the Weimar republic, which in 1919 afforded women the same civil rights and duties as men and the Bauhaus’ admissions policy officially encouraged women. Architecture editor, writer, and critic Catherine Slessor writes of the significance of revisiting the stories of the women at Bauhaus within the history of the school. The Bauhaus was seen as a progressive academic institution, as it declared equality between the sexes and accepted both male and female students into its programs. At the Bauhaus, women were often confronted by a prejudice against weaving which was referred to as ‘purely decorative.’ Ms. Stölzl responded , ‘Then let us be the decorative ones among the stars of the Bauhaus…weaving is an aesthetic whole with a … Along with Moholy’s missing negatives, the impact of the Bauhaus women was lost to history, whilst photographs of iconic design pieces remained and saturated design culture. The industrial production of high quality design for a mass audience was one of the guiding principles of the Bauhaus. Stölzl is an important figure to highlight in the history of the Bauhaus, particularly because of the often under-highlighted stories of women creators in this era. founded the progressive school in 1919, he called for an environment that treated art and design—as well as men and women—with the same level of respect. That is the story of the Bauhaus. After WW II former Bauhaus members were by then scattered all over the world and had survived war and persecution. Some, however, lost their life in the concentration camp. Mar 31, 2019 - Image 11 of 11 from gallery of The Lost History of the Women of the Bauhaus. “Every eligible person whose talent and training are considered adequate will be accepted without regard to age and sex,” he wrote in the Bauhaus’s statutes. Image What, at last, is the interest in returning to this history today? Moholy left behind one of the most comprehensive archives on the Bauhaus, as well as an impressive output of artistic and scholarly work, including the important cultural history of photography A Hundred Years of Photography 1839–1939. When National Socialism (aka the Nazis) closed down the Bauhaus in 1933 many of the women fled and emigrated to other countries. ‘Bauhaus (Lotte am Bauhaus)’ is the latest film by Gregor Schnitzler that tells the true story of the women of the Bauhaus and how they shaped the iconic school
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