Module 3 · 12 min
Meet the Women
Eight women, their lives and work, and why they were overlooked.
Eight stories
Hundreds of women studied and taught at the Bauhaus. These eight stand for many more. Each pushed against the limits of their time, and each left work that is still in use, in museums, or in production today.
Gunta Stölzl
1897–1983
WeavingMasterThe weaver who rebuilt the weaving workshop into the Bauhaus's most commercially successful workshop, and the only woman to become a Bauhaus master.
Marianne Brandt
1893–1983
MetalOne of the few women admitted to the metal workshop, and designer of objects that went into mass production.
Alma Siedhoff-Buscher
1899–1944
Toys and WoodShe designed toys and children's furniture that treated play as serious design.
Gertrud Arndt
1903–2000
WeavingPhotographyAn architect-in-training who ended up in weaving, and a photographer whose playful self-portraits still surprise.
Anni Albers
1899–1994
WeavingA weaver who argued that textiles are art and design, and proved it.
Otti Berger
1898–1944
WeavingA textile innovator whose career was cut short by persecution.
Lucia Moholy
1894–1989
PhotographyThe photographer behind many of the images that made the Bauhaus famous, and who spent years fighting to get her work back.
Friedl Dicker
1898–1944
Ceramics and PaintingTextiles and DesignA multi-talented artist and teacher who taught children art even in a concentration camp.
More women
- Benita Koch-Otte — weaver and designer
- Marguerite Friedlaender-Wildenhain — ceramicist
- Margarete Heymann-Loebenstein — ceramics workshop founder
- Lilly Reich — interior and exhibition designer
- Lotte Stam-Beese — architect and urban planner
- Gertrud Grunow — teacher of "harmonisation"
- Ise Gropius — assistant, editor, and wife of Gropius, whose own contribution is often overlooked
Match the maker
Interactive · Match the maker
Drag each object onto the woman who made it — or select an object, then choose a name.
Check-in quiz
Quiz 3 · Question 1 of 5
Who became head of the weaving workshop in 1927?
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