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In Berlin in the early 1930s, Otti Berger, a female sole proprietor, created fabrics that fundamentally changed the understanding of what textiles are and can do. For her upholstery fabric designs, curtains, wall fabrics and floor coverings, she worked closely with architects of the New Building, such as Lilly Reich, Ludwig Hilberseimer and Hans Scharoun. She designed for new usage requirements and thereby redefined the interplay of aesthetics and function - with fascinating results that are still aesthetically and functionally convincing today. Berger's textile work has so far been little researched. , the artist Judith Raum succeeds for the first time in comprehensively depicting the complexity and beauty of her fabrics and bringing them to new life.
OTTI BERGER (1898 – 1944) was one of the most important textile designers of the 20th century. Born in Zmajevac, in what was then the Hungarian Kingdom of Croatia, she studied in Zagreb from 1921 to 1926 and from 1927 at the Bauhaus in Dessau. After teaching at the Bauhaus, she set up her own business in Berlin in 1932 and designed fabric collections for modern interiors throughout Europe. In 1936, she was banned from working as a Jew, and attempts to escape to England and the USA failed. In 1944, she was deported from Croatia to Auschwitz and murdered there.
The visual artist and art historian JUDITH RAUM (*1977) is a specialist in Otti Berger's work as a result of several research projects on the textile workshop at the Bauhaus. This book concludes her multi-year cooperation project with the Bauhaus Archive in Berlin, for which she has comprehensively researched Berger's estate, which is scattered across archives around the world, for the first time.
In Berlin in the early 1930s, Otti Berger, a female sole proprietor, created fabrics that fundamentally changed the understanding of what textiles are and can do. For her upholstery fabric designs, curtains, wall fabrics and floor coverings, she worked closely with architects of the New Building, such as Lilly Reich, Ludwig Hilberseimer and Hans Scharoun. She designed for new usage requirements and thereby redefined the interplay of aesthetics and function - with fascinating results that are still aesthetically and functionally convincing today. Berger's textile work has so far been little researched. , the artist Judith Raum succeeds for the first time in comprehensively depicting the complexity and beauty of her fabrics and bringing them to new life.
OTTI BERGER (1898 – 1944) was one of the most important textile designers of the 20th century. Born in Zmajevac, in what was then the Hungarian Kingdom of Croatia, she studied in Zagreb from 1921 to 1926 and from 1927 at the Bauhaus in Dessau. After teaching at the Bauhaus, she set up her own business in Berlin in 1932 and designed fabric collections for modern interiors throughout Europe. In 1936, she was banned from working as a Jew, and attempts to escape to England and the USA failed. In 1944, she was deported from Croatia to Auschwitz and murdered there.
The visual artist and art historian JUDITH RAUM (*1977) is a specialist in Otti Berger's work as a result of several research projects on the textile workshop at the Bauhaus. This book concludes her multi-year cooperation project with the Bauhaus Archive in Berlin, for which she has comprehensively researched Berger's estate, which is scattered across archives around the world, for the first time.
