Talk:Gunta Stölzl

A fact from Gunta Stölzl appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 4 April 2007. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that German textile artist Gunta Stölzl was the only female "master" of the Bauhaus?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2007/April.

Wikipedia

Biography: Arts and Entertainment

	Biography portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Biography, a collaborative effort to create, develop and organize Wikipedia's articles about people. All interested editors are invited to join the project and contribute to the discussion. For instructions on how to use this banner, please refer to the documentation.BiographyWikipedia:WikiProject BiographyTemplate:WikiProject Biographybiography articles
	This article is supported by the arts and entertainment work group.

Textile arts Mid‑importance

	Clothing portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Textile arts, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of textile arts on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Textile artsWikipedia:WikiProject Textile artsTemplate:WikiProject Textile artsTextile arts articles
Mid	This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the importance scale.

Women's History Low‑importance

	History portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Women's History, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Women's history and related articles on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Women's HistoryWikipedia:WikiProject Women's HistoryTemplate:WikiProject Women's HistoryWomen's History articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

Women artists

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Women artists, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of women artists on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Women artistsWikipedia:WikiProject Women artistsTemplate:WikiProject Women artistsWomen artists articles

Visual arts

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Visual arts, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of visual arts on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Visual artsWikipedia:WikiProject Visual artsTemplate:WikiProject Visual artsvisual arts articles

External links modified

Latest comment: 5 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified 2 external links on Gunta Stölzl. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

This message was posted before February 2018. After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template {{source check}} (last update: 5 June 2024).

If you have discovered URLs which were erroneously considered dead by the bot, you can report them with this tool.
If you found an error with any archives or the URLs themselves, you can fix them with this tool.

Cheers.—InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 16:18, 10 January 2018 (UTC)Reply

great article.Tscalligas (talk) 22:35, 26 February 2019 (UTC)Reply

Uncited material moved off main space

Latest comment: 4 months ago1 comment1 person in discussion

return only with reiable citations. --WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 00:54, 25 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

Timeline

1914-1916 Studies glass painting, ceramics and decorative painting at the Kunstgewerbeschule (School of Applied Arts) in Munich
1917-1918 Works as a Red Cross Nurse behind the front lines
1919 Continues studies at Kunstgewerbeschule in Munich, participates in curriculum reform. Encounters Bauhaus manifesto.
1919-1923 Studies at the Bauhaus school with Itten, Klee and Kandinsky.
1922 Attends a course in dyeing techniques in Krefeld and establishes dyeing facilities at the Bauhaus
1923 Passes journeyman's exam; continues working in the weaving workshop.
1924 Helps Itten establish Ontos Weaving Workshops near Zurich
1925 Assumes position of technical director at Dessau weaving workshop, directs her students' practical and theoretical studies.
1927 Appointed as Jungmeister (Junior Master) for the entire weaving workshop, the Bauhaus’ first and only female master.
1927 Experiments with new materials such as cellophane and ‘iron yarn’, and begins to attempt jacquard weaving.
1929 Marries the Israeli architecture student Arieh Sharon and loses German citizenship. Daughter Yael born.
1930 First diplomas of the Bauhaus weaving workshop are issued by Stölzl.
1931 Publishes ‘Development of the Bauhaus Weaving Workshop’
1931 Forced to resign as director of the weaving workshop. Emigrates to Switzerland and forms a private hand weaving business in Zurich, S-P-H Stoffe with Gertrud Preiswerk and Heinrich-Otto Hürlimann.
1932 Becomes a member of the Swiss Werkbund.
1933 SPH Stoffe Dissolves due to financial difficulties.
1934 Receives commission for curtains for the Cinema Urban, Zurich. Das Werk magazine profiles her career.
1935 Partnership with Hürlimann to form S&H Stoffe.
1936 Stölzl and Sharon divorce.
1937 Becomes sole owner of Handweberei Flora (Hand Weaving Studio Flora). Joins the Gesellschaft Schweizer Malerinnen, Bildhauerinnen und Kunstgewerblerinnen (Society of Swiss Women Painters, Sculptors and Craftswomen)
1941 Participates in the interior of the Swiss pavilion, Lyon.
1942 Marries Willy Stadler, becomes a Swiss citizen
1943 Birth of second daughter, Monika, in Zurich
1949-1963 Busch-Reisinger Museum and MoMA acquire works by Stölzl
1967-69 Dissolves hand weaving business, devotes herself to tapestry and weaving her own designs. the Victoria and Albert Museum acquires designs and fabric samples; major national and international collections.
1983 Dies April 22, 1983 in Zurich at the age of 86.

The Galerie Raphael Durazzo organised an exhibition entitled "The Bauhaus Prism" with works by Gunta Stölzl in 2022. It was the first French gallery to hold an exhibition with several of her works.

Add topic