"bauhaus art as life" - The Barbican Center, London 2012
The "bauhaus art as life" exhibition at the Barbican Center, London 2012.
The Talk: Gunta Stölzl – A Daughter’s Perspective - Event Details.
Video on Youtube: Bauhaus: Art as Life - Gunta Stölzl: A Daughter's Perspective - Monika Stadler recalls her mother Gunta Stölzl's memories, anecdotes and friendships made during her time as a student and as pioneering master of the Bauhaus weaving workshop.
Excerpt from an article on Bauhaus Online:
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"The Weimar Classics Foundation is lending around 70 objects to ’Bauhaus: Art as Life’. They include the rarely exhibited ‘Black and White’ tapestry, which Gunta Stölzl made in 1923–24. This half-gobelin is among the most outstanding works produced by the weaving workshop, in which figurative and organic pictorial compositions increasingly gave way to abstract and geometrical ones."
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Tapestry "Black/White"
Half-gobelin technique. Flatweave, partly with reversed harness
Warp: mercerized cotton. Weft: wool, rayon and metal thread
1923
183x112 cm
The illustration shows the mirror woven replica (182 x 119 cm) carried out by Helene Börner in 1925.
Bauhaus-Museum, Weimar