Otti Berger
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Otti Berger was a Croatian student and later teacher at the Bauhaus, where she was a textile artist and weaver. She was murdered in 1944 at Auschwitz during the Holocaust.
Otti Berger ca 1927
Party at Otti Berger's. Berger is at the back row far right, with an headdress. Digital image courtesy of the Getty's Open Content Program.
Sample textile designed by Otti Berger
Sample textile book of 22 various designs by Berger using synthetic dyes and mercerized cotton.
Lilly Reich
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Lilly Reich was a German designer specializing in textiles, furniture, interiors, and exhibition spaces. She was a close collaborator with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe for more than ten years during the W
Otti Berger
…Markos-Ney and Etel Fodor-Mittag, who became a hand weaver in South Africa. It was a short-lived position, however, as she was replaced in 1932 by Lilly Reich, the partner of new Bauhaus director Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. When the Bauhaus closed under German force in 1932, Berger opened her own textile design…
Lilly Reich
MR 10 Weissenhof chair, designed by Reich and Mies van der Rohe (1927)
MR 10 chair and B 10 table, Kunstmuseen Krefeld
Barcelona Chair (1929) photographed in situ at the reconstructed Barcelona Pavilion