Weaving at the Bauhaus: Origins and Influences Julia E. Benson - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

▶
weaving at the bauhaus origins and influences
SMART_READER_LITE
LIVE PREVIEW

Weaving at the Bauhaus: Origins and Influences Julia E. Benson - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Sep 14, 2023 132 likes •686 views

Weaving at the Bauhaus: Origins and Influences Julia E. Benson TEXT 6910 Fall Semester, 2003 Johannes Itten Horizontal-Vertikal ,1915 Wassily Kandinsky Moscow I , 1916 Oil on canvas Collection of State Tretjakov Gallery,

slide-1
SLIDE 1

Weaving at the Bauhaus: Origins and Influences

Julia E. Benson TEXT 6910 Fall Semester, 2003

slide-2
SLIDE 2

Johannes Itten

Horizontal-Vertikal,1915

slide-3
SLIDE 3

Wassily Kandinsky

Moscow I, 1916 Oil on canvas

Collection of State Tretjakov Gallery, Moscow

slide-4
SLIDE 4

Paul Klee

Komposition mit fenstern (Komposition mit dem "B"), 1919. Oil paint and ink on cardboard, 50,4x38,3 cm.

Collection of Paul Klee-Stiftung, Kunstmuseum, Bern

slide-5
SLIDE 5

Weimar Textiles

Designer: Ida Kerkovius

Knotted carpet, 1923. Wool, 194 x 300 cm.

Collection of the Bauhaus Archive

slide-6
SLIDE 6

Weimar Textiles

Designer: Gunta Stölzl

Detail of wall hanging, 1923 (linen, wool, viscose, and cotton; 260 x 122 cm)

Collection of Kunstsammlungen, Weimar

slide-7
SLIDE 7

Weimar Textiles (cont.)

Designer: Benita Koch-Otte

Wall-covering semi-gobelin tapestry, c. 1923 wool and cotton colour scheme of red, green, black and white 159 x 110 cm

slide-8
SLIDE 8

Weimar Textiles (cont.)

Designer: Benita Koch-Otte

Kinderzimmerteppich, wall hanging, c. 1923

Collection of the Bauhaus-Museum of the Kunstsammlungen zu Weimar

slide-9
SLIDE 9

Dessau Textiles

Grete Reichardt

Iron-yarn-belts, 1926, for the first steel tube chairs by Marcel Breuer and Mies van der Rohe .

Bauhaus-Iron-yarn-belts consist of multiple twisted cotton threads. The "hard" yarn gets its solidity by

  • paraffining. The natural

structure of the fabric is maintained by a visible selvage and by knots and is a sign for original reproduction, no defect.

slide-10
SLIDE 10

Dessau Textiles (cont.)

Designer: Gunta Stölzl

Gobelin tapestry, 1927-1928

slide-11
SLIDE 11

Dessau Textiles (cont.)

Designer: Gunta Stölzl

5 Chöre (5 Choirs), 1928 Jacquard wallhanging, wool, cotton, silk

Collection of Museum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte der Hansestadt Lübeck

slide-12
SLIDE 12

Dessau Textiles (cont.)

Designer: Gunta Stölzl

Fabric sample, 1928, wool and other fibers

In archives of the Museum Bellerive, Zürich

slide-13
SLIDE 13

Dessau Textiles (cont.)

Designer: Anni Albers

Wall covering material, 1929 Cotton and cellophane. 22.9 x 12.7 cm (9 x 5 inches)

slide-14
SLIDE 14

Dessau Textiles (cont.)

Designer: Anni Albers

Sound absorbing and light-reflecting wall covering material, 1929 Double weave, cotton chenille and cellophane

Albers submitted this fabric as the final requirement for her Bauhaus diploma.

slide-15
SLIDE 15

Dessau Textiles (cont.)

Designer: Alma Tchildran

Textile, 1929 Wool, size and construction unknown

slide-16
SLIDE 16

Otti Berger

“C.S.P.”, bed cover or curtain fabric, c. 1930s, designed for the Dutch textile company De Ploeg

Used as endpaper for the Persephone Press publication of Etty Hillesum’s “An Interrupted Life.”

slide-17
SLIDE 17

Friedl Dicker-Brandeis

Wall carpet for children's room, 1931

slide-18
SLIDE 18

Anni Albers

Monte Alban, 1936

Silk, linen, and wool. 146 x 112 cm (57-3/8 x 44 inches)

Collection of the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums

slide-19
SLIDE 19

Anni Albers (cont.)

"Ancient Writing,” 1939 Wall hanging, 59 1/4 x 44

  • in. (150.5 x 111.8 cm.)

Collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum

slide-20
SLIDE 20

Anni Albers (cont.)

Drapery material, ca. 1944 Plastic, copper foil, and

  • cotton. 138.4 x 83.8 cm

(54-1/2 x 33 inches)

Created on commission from architect Philip Johnson for the Rockefeller Guest House at East 57th Street in New York City.

slide-21
SLIDE 21

Anni Albers (cont.)

“Red and Blue Layers,” 1954 Cotton, 61 x 36.8 cm

Collection of the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation

slide-22
SLIDE 22

Anni Albers (cont.)

Untitled (Line Involvements V), 1964 lithograph (stone) in two blacks on white Arches paper, sheet: 36.8 x 50.2 cm (14 1/2 x 19 3/4 in.)

Collection of the National Gallery of Art

slide-23
SLIDE 23

Anni Albers (cont.)

Maze, 1979 Printed cotton (left), Acid-etched polyester/cotton (right)

Manufactured by SUNAR

slide-24
SLIDE 24

Marli Ehrman

Organic armchair, 1941

Designed by Heywood-Wakefield Company

slide-25
SLIDE 25

Jack Lenor Larsen

Interlace Owned by Cowtan & Tout

slide-26
SLIDE 26

Jack Lenor Larsen (cont.)

Nimbus/Cumulus Owned by Cowtan & Tout

slide-27
SLIDE 27

Dorothy Liebes

Fine Donald Deskey chair, by Royal Chrome Co., stainless steel frame with decorative ball trim and upholstered seat with

  • riginal Dorothy Liebes

fabric

slide-28
SLIDE 28

Lore Kadden Lindenfeld

Double weave sample with rectangular floats, 1945-48 10 x 6 inches grey rayon background with brown, rust, grey textured floats

Woven while a student at Black Mountain College

slide-29
SLIDE 29

Lore Kadden Lindenfeld (cont.)

Double-weave with Leno, 1948 (Black Mountain College). Detail.

Collection of the Smithsonian, American Art Museum (Renwick), Washington, D.C. Gift of the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation.

slide-30
SLIDE 30

Lore Kadden Lindenfeld (cont.)

Sample of wool coating, 1950 rust/white/black horizontal strips

designed for Kanmak Textiles

slide-31
SLIDE 31

Kay Sekimachi

MOON AND MAUNA KEA IV (left) 1998 linen, heat transfer print on warp, overprinting and doubleweave, buckrum and stitch witchery 3 1/2"(h) x 23" x 5" when extended

HAYDEN VALLEY II (right) 1998 linen, heat transfer print on warp, overprinting and doubleweave, buckrum and stitch witchery 3 5/8"(h) x 23" x 5 1/2" when extended

slide-32
SLIDE 32

Kay Sekimachi (cont.)

Nesting Box c. 1974 Linen, five layered weave, double weave pick-up. 7 1/2" x 7 1/2" x 7 1/2".

Collection of Jack Lenor Larsen

slide-33
SLIDE 33

Angelo Testa

Original gouache on paper, illustration for fabric later produced by Angelo Testa &

  • Co. Matted with hand letter

text, ""LITTLE MAN DESIGN", 1942-1943, FIRST FABRIC DESIGNED BY ANGELO TESTA".

slide-34
SLIDE 34

Angelo Testa (cont.)

STILTS, available in various color schemes.

slide-35
SLIDE 35

Angelo Testa (cont.)

TIMBER for GREEFF, available in various color schemes.

slide-36
SLIDE 36

Angelo Testa (cont.)

TEXTURA PLAID for GREEFF, available in various color schemes.

slide-37
SLIDE 37

Angelo Testa (cont.)

Group of fabric design

  • illustrations. One dated

1970, others undated.

slide-38
SLIDE 38

Vorwerk Teppichwerke

Designer: Gertrud Arndt

slide-39
SLIDE 39

Vorwerk Teppichwerke (cont.)

Designer: Gertrud Arndt

slide-40
SLIDE 40

Vorwerk Teppichwerke (cont.)

Designer: Monica Bella-Broner

slide-41
SLIDE 41

Vorwerk Teppichwerke (cont.)

Designer: Monica Bella-Broner

slide-42
SLIDE 42

Vorwerk Teppichwerke (cont.)

Designer: Not credited, possibly Kitty Fischer

slide-43
SLIDE 43

Vorwerk Teppichwerke (cont.)

Designer: Not credited, possibly Kitty Fischer

slide-44
SLIDE 44

Vorwerk Teppichwerke (cont.)

Designer: Grete Reichardt

slide-45
SLIDE 45

Vorwerk Teppichwerke (cont.)

Designer: Gunta Stölzl

slide-46
SLIDE 46

Gunta Stölzl Designs by Christopher Farr Galleries

Handknotted carpet, Edition

  • f 15

Size: 3.15 x 2.38m (10'4" x 7'10")

slide-47
SLIDE 47

Gunta Stölzl Designs by Christopher Farr Galleries (cont.)

Handwoven flatweave, Edition of 15

Size: 3.60 x 2.50m (11'10" x 8'3")

slide-48
SLIDE 48

Gunta Stölzl Designs by Christopher Farr Galleries (cont.)

Tapestry, Edition of 15 Size: 1.47 x 1.11m (4'7" x 3'7")

slide-49
SLIDE 49

Gunta Stölzl Designs by Christopher Farr Galleries (cont.)

Handknotted carpet, Edition

  • f 15

Size: 3.98 x 1.60m (13' x 5'3")

slide-50
SLIDE 50

Gunta Stölzl Designs by Christopher Farr Galleries (cont.)

  • Flatweave. Original design

from the Bauhaus, 1926 Edition of 15 Size: 3 x 3m (9' 10" x 9' 10")

slide-51
SLIDE 51

Gunta Stölzl Designs by Christopher Farr Galleries (cont.)

Handknotted carpet, Original design from the Bauhaus, 1926 Edition of 15 Size: 3 x 3m (10' x 10')

slide-52
SLIDE 52

Gunta Stölzl Designs by Christopher Farr Galleries (cont.)

Handknotted carpet, Edition

  • f 15

Size: 3.60 x 2.50m (11' 9" x 8' 3")

slide-53
SLIDE 53

Anni Albers' Loom Today

Front view of loom as it appears today at Allegheny River Textile Studio, Foxburg, PA

slide-54
SLIDE 54

Anni Albers' Loom Today

Sigrid Piroch, director of Allegheny River Textile Studio, Foxburg, PA, weaving on Anni Albers’ restored 12-shaft countermarche loom