Generative Art Timeline · Chapter 2: Modern Era (1850–1949)

1928

The Bauhaus Opens Workshops to All Students

Event · Europe · Women Artists

Four people, including architecture student Annemarie Wilke, work around a table of drawings.
Bauhaus architecture class, 1930/1931: Annemarie Wilke, Heinrich Neuy, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and Hermann Klumpp. A later class following the 1928 reform. Photograph: Pius Pahl. Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau, I 36442. © (Pahl, E. Pius) Pahl, Peter Jan, as credited by Bauhaus Kooperation. Image source.

Under new director Hannes Meyer, women at the Bauhaus are allowed to choose their own workshops and admitted to study architecture. This long-overdue step towards greater gender inclusivity meant that the women students were no longer confined to the weaving workshop only.

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

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Hannes Meyer

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Bauhaus

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architecture, education, gender, gender equity, textiles
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Director, weaving
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Hannes Meyer
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Bauhaus, Bauhaus Weaving Workshop

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