Report: Masters and Weavers: From Bauhaus to #MeToo

Issue
03/2019 Research and Education
Author
Sandra Hofmeister
Source
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only the weaving workshop was open to female students. It became known as the “women’s department” and its students were portrayed here by T. Lux Feininger in 1927. Pictured in the front left is junior master Gunta Stölzl, who that year became sole director of the weaving workshop.
© Walter Gropius © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2019 / photo: Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin, © Estate of T. Lux Feininger
How was the role of women defined in the crucible of modernism? In terms of gender equality, the Bauhaus was hardly progressive - a legacy that needs to be rectified.
only the weaving workshop was open to female students. It became known as the “women’s department” and its students were portrayed here by T. Lux Feininger in 1927. Pictured in the front left is junior master Gunta Stölzl, who that year became sole director of the weaving workshop.
© Walter Gropius © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2019 / photo: Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin, © Estate of T. Lux Feininger