Bauhaus Weaving Workshop Developes New Aesthetic

Event · Europe · Women Artists

A full-length tapestry of vivid interlocking waves, stepped shapes, checkerboards and coloured vertical bands, with its fringe visible. — Gunta Stölzl, Slit Tapestry Red/Green (Rot/Grün), 1927–1928. Cotton, wool, silk and linen, 150 × 110 cm. Bauhaus-Archiv, Berlin. A later example of the workshop’s abstract weaving. © Stölzl Estate / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn. Reproduction: Gunta Stölzl Catalogue of Works. Image source.

Gunta Stölzl leads the women in the Bauhaus weaving workshop to alter its aesthetic, emphasizing tapestries based on abstraction and countering the previous Art-Nouveau narrative.

Text by Peter Bauman. Generative Art Timeline, Le Random.

People

Gunta Stölzl

Movements

Bauhaus

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Ideas: abstraction, Art Nouveau, gender, textiles
Technologies: tapestry, weaving
People: Gunta Stölzl
Organisations: Bauhaus, Bauhaus Weaving Workshop

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