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Forty-five key women of the Bauhaus movement.

Table of Contents

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

About the Author

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).

Reviews

Spotlights 45 Bauhaus women and their courage and creativity, as well as their progressive ideas and inspiring stories.
*Metropolis*

Readers will be satisfied to find a mixture of known and lesser-known names.
*AlexanderAdamsArt: Reviews of Art, Culture, and Literature*

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.
*ArchNewsNow*

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.
*New Statesman*

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.
*Oenologique*

Bauhaus Women aims to make up for this century of misogyny by showcasing these neglected women artists.
*World of Interiors*