Otti Berger (eBook)

Weaving for Modernist Architecture

Judith Raum (Herausgeber)

Esther Cleven, Magdalena Droste, Tanya Harrod, Juliet Kinchin, Corinna Rader, Judith Raum, Katja Stelz (Text von)

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2025
352 Seiten
Hatje Cantz Verlag GmbH
978-3-7757-6004-1 (ISBN)

Infos

Otti Berger created fabrics that fundamentally changed the understanding of what textiles could be and do. A core member of the experimental approach to textiles at the Bauhaus, she was also a female entrepreneur in the frenzied time that was the early 1930s in Berlin. Working closely with architects of the New Objectivity movement such as Lilly Reich, Ludwig Hilberseimer and Hans Scharoun, she designed upholstery and wall tapestries, curtains and floor coverings that responded to novel types of use and production methods, and thereby redefined the relationship between aesthetics and function―with fascinating results. To date Berger's textile work has only been explored in fragments. This book is the first comprehensive study of its complexity and beauty and makes her hitherto unpublished treatise on fabrics and the methodology of textile production accessible. Raum's research offers an entirely new perspective on Berger's oeuvre.
OTTI BERGER (1898–1944) was one of the most important textile designers of the 20th century. Born in Zmajevac, in the Austro- Hungarian Empire, present-day Croatia, she studied in Zagreb and from 1927 at the Bauhaus in Dessau. Leaving her teaching post at the Bauhaus, she set up her own business in Berlin in 1932 to design fabrics for modern interiors, but was banned from working due to her Jewish heritage in 1936. Attempts to escape to England and the USA failed. She was deported from Croatia to Auschwitz and was murdered there in 1944.

In cooperation with the Bauhaus Archive Berlin, visual artist and art historian JUDITH RAUM (*1977) has conducted intensive research in European and North American archives to complete the first comprehensive study of Berger's scattered estate.

Inhalt

Cover
Halftitle
Titlepage
Table of Content
Preface - Annemarie Jaeggi
Introduction - Judith Raum
Otti Berger: Atelier for Textiles - Judith Raum
Otti Berger: Selected Theoretical Texts on the Textile Medium and Drafts for Weaving Curricula 1930 – 38
Otti Berger's Materials and Techniques - Katja Stelz and Judith Raum
Glossary
Fabrics for Walls - Judith Raum
Textiles and Architecture: Toward a New Unity - Juliet Kinchin
Upholstery Fabrics - Judith Raum
Cloth Chemistry: The Synthetic Fiber Industry and the Bauhaus around 1930 - Esther Cleven
Curtain Fabrics- Judith Raum
Otti Berger in England 1936–38: Hope and Disappointment - Tanya Harrod
Carpeting and Rugs - Judith Raum
Folk Influences in Otti Berger's Weaving - Judith Raum
Fabrics for Bedspreads and Daybed Covers - Judith Raum
Routes, Detours, and Coincidences: Traces of Otti Berger at the Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin - Corinna Alexandra Rader
Otti Berger and Ludwig Hilberseimer, 1932–44 - Judith Raum
Otti Berger and Ludwig Hilberseimer: Failed and Successful Emigration - Magdalena Droste
Biography Otti Berger
Appendix
Back Cover

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 27.6.2025
• Illustrationen: Uta Neumann
• Mitarbeit: Designer: Lamm & Kirch
• Verlagsort: Berlin
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Design / Innenarchitektur / Mode
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Architektur
• Schlagworte: Architektur der Moderne • Bauhaus • Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin • Frauen im Design • Interieurgestaltung • Neue Bauen • Neue Sachlichkeit • Otti Berger • Stoffgestaltung • Textildesign • Textilkunst
• ISBN-10: 3-7757-6004-0 / 3775760040
• ISBN-13: 978-3-7757-6004-1 / 9783775760041