Gunta stolzl

Gunta Stölzl was an iconic textile artist whose works have changed the world. She was mostly active during the 1920s and 1930s.

“This exhibition brings together over 400 works by some 100 teachers and students of the Bauhaus that reflect the extraordinarily broad range of the...

Gunta Stölzl (1897- 1983) was a highly influential German textile artist who played a fundamental role in the Bauhaus school curriculum and history. The Bauhaus was a new design and art school, with a fresh set of rules and approaches, and no boundaries to age or sex. Prior to enrolling in the school, she first studied decorative painting, glass painting, ceramics, art history and style at a school of applied arts in Munich. Gunta joined the Bauhaus as a student in 1920, became a junior…

Anni Albers. Gunta Stölzl. Otti Berger.

Gunta Stölzl was a textile master at Germany's Bauhaus school and workshop in the early 20th century. Born in 1897, she translated modernism into weavings and vice-versa. She lived until 1983, working in Switzerland after the Nazi takeover of Germany. The website devoted to her work takes you through the various decades, showing how her ideas and colors changed. During the 1920s she summarized Bauhaus attitudes to design, paring down shape and color to the minimal: "The richness of colour…

Gunta Stölzl | Bauhaus Master

Gunta Stölzl and Anni Albers

Gunta Stolzl, Bauhaus master