Title & Author:

Otti Berger : weaving for modernist architecture / edited by Judith Raum for the Bauhaus-Archiv / Museum für Gestaltung; with contributions from Esther Cleven, Magdalena Droste, Tanya Harrod, Juliet Kinchin, Corinna A. Rader, Judith Raum, Katja Stelz.

Publication:

Berlin : Hatje Cantz, [2024]
©2024

Description:

351 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, portraits ; 32 cm

Notes:
Catalog of an exhibition held at the temporary Bauhaus-Archiv, Berlin, 14 March - 24 August, 2024.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 346-348) and indexes.
Preface / Annemarie Jaeggi -- Introduction / Judith Raum -- Otti Berger: atelier for textiles / Judith Raum -- Otti Berger: selected theoretical texts on the textile medium and drafts for weaving curricula 1930-38 -- Otti Berger's materials and techniques / Katja Stelz and Judith Raum -- Glossary -- Fabrics for walls / Judith Raum : Double weaves: easier installation, sturdy construction, and noise reduction ; Wide ribbon in wall coverings: lighting effects and acoustic influence ; Wall coverings in use ; Wall coverings on colored backgrounds -- Textiles and architecture: toward a new unity / Juliet Kinchin -- Upholstery fabrics / Judith Raum : Tension fabrics for tubular steel furniture ; Upholstery fabrics of artificial horsehair ; Washable upholstery fabrics ; Upholstery fabrics for domestic interiors: alternatives to "structure fabrics" ; Polychromatic upholstery fabrics: stripes, checks, dots -- Cloth chemistry: the synthetic fiber industry and the Bauhaus around 1930 / Esther Cleven -- Curtain fabrics / Judith Raum : Window nets, sheer curtains, and light-reducing curtains ; Thicker curtains in twill weave ; Darkening and blackout curtains ; Dividing curtains and doorway curtains ; Room dividers ; Curtain fabric collections -- Otti Berger in England 1936-38: hope and disappointment / Tanya Harrod -- Carpeting and rugs / Judith Raum : Double-faced weaves and double weaves ; Rugs -- Folk influences in Otti Berger's weaving / Judith Raum -- Fabrics for bedspreads and daybed covers / Judith Raum : Baby blankets and throws ; Bedspreads and daybed covers -- Routes, detours, and coincidences: traces of Otti Berger at the Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin / Corinna A. Rader -- Otti Berger and Ludwig Hilberseimer, 1932-44 / Judith Raum -- Otti Berger and Ludwig Hilberseimer: failed and successful emigration / Magdalena Droste -- Bigraphy Otti Berger.

Summary:

"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, and thereby redefined the relationship between aesthetics and function--with fascinating results. To date Berger's textile work has only been explored in fragments. This book is the first comprehensive study of its complexity and beauty and makes her hitherto unpublished treatise on fabrics and the methodology of textile production accessible. Raum's research offers an entirely new perspective on Berger's oeuvre"-- Provided by publisher.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

9783775755009 hardback English
3775755004 hardback
9783775756419 English, with German booklet
3775756418 English, with German booklet

Subject:

Berger, Otti, 1898-1944 Exhibitions.
Berger, Otti, 1898-1944 Criticism and interpretation Exhibitions.
Raum, Judith, 1977- Exhibitions.
Textile fabrics in interior decoration Germany History 20th century Exhibitions.
Textiles et tissus en décoration intérieure Allemagne Histoire 20e siècle Expositions.

Form/genre:

exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs.
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Berger, Otti, 1898-1944.
Raum, Judith, 1977- author, editor.
Bauhaus-Archiv, Museum für Gestaltung, host institution.

Weaving for modernist architecture

Holdings:

Location: Library main 320254
Call No.: 320254
Copy: 1
Status: Available