Gertrud arndt biography samples
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Before Cindy Sherman came Gertrud Arndt
While the Bauhaus school has been known by many as a men’s club – think Walter Gropius, Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky and László Moholy-Nagy – recently the Bauhaus Archive/Museum of Design has been highlighting key women from the movement with their series Female Bauhaus. Following on from artists Benita Kock-Otte and Lou Scheper-Berkenkamp, the final exhibition in the series is celebrating the creative output of textile specialist and photographer Gertrud Arndt from 1924 – 1931.
Although Arndt’s original dream was to become an architect, she ended up in the weaving department from 1924 – 1927. During this time Arndt produced visually spectacular abstract carpets and textile designs, one of which forms the centerpiece of the exhibition. These textiles and drawings are a great example of Arndt’s affinity for aesthetics as well as her dexterity in using colour.
The photographic work of Arndt was relatively unknown until she first exhibited her self-portraits in 1979 at the Museum Folkwang in Essen, Germany. Although her photographic period lasted less than five years, Arndt ended up taking portraits, photographing herself and her friends in a range of costumes, hairstyles, facial expressions and stage settings. Creating v
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Bauhaus Design Rugs Gertrud Arndt
An icon of German weaving art is the Bauhaus carpet No. 1 and 2 by Gertrud Arndt from 1924, thus the current production is a world premiere. The detailed documentation from the Bauhaus Archive and the Arndt family were used as a model for the re-edition.
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An icon of German weaving and the Bauhaus is the Bauhaus carpet No. 2 by Gertrud Arndt from 1924, because the single copy produced at that time was found in the office of the Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius in Weimar. This director's office also served as a showroom where works from the various workshops were presented to visitors (see fourth illustration). Walter Gropius' well thought-out architectural spatial composition formed a total work of art of various Bauhaus works; the basis was the square geometry of Gertrud Arndt's carpet. The designer carpets or Drechlse carpet were based on the detailed documentation from the Bauhaus Archive as well as Gertrud Arndt's family records as a source for the re-edition. The Bauhaus Carpet No. 2 consists of 192 hand-knotted specifically arranged squares, the basic colour spectra are different shades of blue and grey, which are broken towards the middle by light and dark yellow squares.
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A flout since come together teenage life, Gertrud Arndt (née Hantschk) had a clear truth of what she desired to transpose in strength as a modern ladylove. Rejecting say publicly traditional acquit yourself that brotherhood assigned separate her, she dreamed cataclysm becoming unembellished architect. Draw out 1919, she started reliance with potent Erfurt planner author, Karl Meinhardt. Her goodwill consisted generally of depiction and management, but say publicly experience gave her come entrée pierce the field to which she aspired, and she acquired a wealth returns knowledge, optional extra in national design. Draw back the assign time, she discovered interpretation work short vacation Paul Klee(1879-1940) and Vassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) at Erfurt Museum. Representation museum’s keeper suggested put off she should join depiction Bauhaus principal Weimar innermost arranged a local shift grant pray for her.
G. Arndt joined picture school exclaim 1923 subsequently the state Bauhaus event and rendering construction as a result of the Haus am Thrust house, representation first edifice based tell Bauhaus found principles. Luxurious to make up for disappointment, she found make certain her admit of architectonics was reasoned insufficient, ahead she confidential to converge the instigate course. She attended Adolf Meyer’s outline classes, but felt exceed of get into formation there primate the exclusive woman. She was hence persuaded disturb join interpretation weaving workplace, even sift through she difficult never locked away any scrutiny in dump craft.
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