Otti Berger: Weaving for Modernist Architecture

Name: Otti Berger: Weaving for Modernist Architecture
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The Fabric of Modern Architecture Otti Berger created fabrics that fundamentally changed the understanding of what textiles could be and do. A core member of the experimental approach to textiles at the Bauhaus, she was also a female entrepreneur in the frenzied time that was the... Read More

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The Fabric of Modern Architecture

Otti Berger created fabrics that fundamentally changed the understanding of what textiles could be and do. A core member of the experimental approach to textiles at the Bauhaus, she was also a female entrepreneur in the frenzied time that was the early 1930s in Berlin.

Working closely with architects of the New Objectivity movement, such as Lilly Reich, Ludwig Hilberseimer, and Hans Scharoun, she designed upholstery and wall tapestries, curtains, and floor coverings that responded to novel types of use and production methods, thereby redefining the relationship between aesthetics and function—with fascinating results.

To date, Berger's textile work has only been explored in fragments. Otti Berger: Weaving for Modernist Architecture is the first comprehensive study of its complexity and beauty, making her hitherto unpublished treatise on fabrics and the methodology of textile production accessible. By systematically arranging the fabrics according to their application, Raum's research offers an entirely new perspective on Berger's oeuvre that emphasises the craftsmanship and entrepreneurial side of her work and appreciates the largely unrecognised significance of textiles in the history of architecture and design.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9783775755009

Publisher: Hatje Cantz

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 25 April 2024

Country: Germany

Imprint: Hatje Cantz

Illustration: 400 Illustrations

Contributors:

Text by Juliet Kinchin
Edited by Judith Raum
Text by Esther Cleven
Text by Magdalena Droste
Text by Tanya Harrod
Text by Corinna Rader
Text by Katja Stelz

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 230.0mm

Height: 290.0mm

Weight: 1700g

Pages: 352

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Arts & Culture Non-Fiction

About the Author

OTTI BERGER (1898-1944) was one of the most important textile designers of the 20th century. Born in Zmajevac, in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, present-day Croatia, she studied in Zagreb from 1921-1926 and at the Bauhaus in Dessau from 1927. Leaving her teaching post at the Bauhaus, she set up her own business in Berlin in 1932 to design fabrics for modern interiors throughout Europe. In 1936, she was banned from working due to her Jewish heritage. Attempts to escape to England and the USA failed. She was deported from Croatia to Auschwitz and was murdered there in 1944.

Visual artist and art historian JUDITH RAUM (*1977) has been preoccupied for several years with the Bauhaus textile workshop. Her intensive research in European and North American archives in cooperation with the Bauhaus Archive Berlin, is the first comprehensive study of Berger's scattered estate.