Generative Art Timeline · Chapter 2: Modern Era (1850–1949)
1920
Bauhaus Weaving Workshop Initiated by Gunta Stölzl

After Gunta Stölzl asked for a class for women to be set up, the weaving workshop was created by the women themselves and taught by Helena Börner. This was the only workshop available to the women students at Bauhaus as all other workshops, from wood to metal, were open only to male students, and the Bauhaus had no architecture course until 1927.
Text by Peter Bauman. Generative Art Timeline, Le Random.
Sources
People
Movements
Bauhaus
Filed under
- Ideas
- architecture, art education, gender, textiles
- Technologies
- weaving
- People
- Gunta Stölzl, Helene Börner
- Organisations
- Bauhaus, Bauhaus Weaving Workshop
Related moments
Echoes across time
- 1982 · L’Art et l’ordinateur in Paris
- 1973 · France Hosts International Computer Art Events
- 1969 · Kunst Und Computer Exhibition at Vienna Sparkasse
Le Random editorials
- Ten Moments in South American Generative Art History, Peter Bauman, November 15, 2023
- Emily Xie on Textile as Personal Canvas, Peter Bauman, March 27, 2024
- Timeline Chapter 1: Ten Top Moments, Peter Bauman, September 6, 2023
Le Random podcast
- Timeline Ch 2—Modern Era with Kate Vass — listen with transcript on Le Random (20 Jul 2023, 58 min). Transcript mentions Gunta Stölzl. Chapter 2’s episode. Apple Podcasts · Spotify
- Timeline Ch 5—Artist-Programmer Era (1970s) with Joan Truckenbrod, Hans Dehlinger & Anika Meier — listen with transcript on Le Random (14 Jan 2024, 65 min). Transcript mentions weaving. Apple Podcasts · Spotify
- New York Frieze Week—Michael Connor, Regina Harsanyi & Karyn Nakamura with Peter Bauman — listen with transcript on Le Random (12 May 2026, 47 min). Transcript mentions weaving. Apple Podcasts · Spotify