{"product_id":"64980-otti-berger","title":"Otti Berger","description":"In early 1930s Berlin, Otti Berger, as a female solo entrepreneur, created fabrics that fundamentally changed the understanding of what textiles could be and achieve. For her upholstery designs, curtains, wall coverings, and floorings, she worked closely with architects of the New Objectivity movement, such as Lilly Reich, Ludwig Hilberseimer, and Hans Scharoun. She designed for new functional requirements, redefining the interplay of aesthetics and function – with fascinating results that remain aesthetically and functionally compelling to this day. Berger's textile work has so far been little researched. Here, artist Judith Raum succeeds for the first time in comprehensively presenting the complexity and beauty of her weaves and bringing them back to life. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eImage credits © Uta Neumann © Florian de Brün\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOTTI BERGER (1898 – 1944) was one of the most important textile designers of the 20th century. Born in Zmajevac, in what was then the Hungarian Kingdom of Croatia, she studied in Zagreb from 1921 – 1926, and from 1927 at the Bauhaus in Dessau. After teaching at the Bauhaus, she became self-employed in Berlin in 1932, designing fabric collections for modern interiors across Europe. In 1936, as a Jewish woman, she was banned from her profession, and attempts to flee to England and the USA failed. She was deported from Croatia to Auschwitz in 1944 and murdered there. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVisual artist and art historian JUDITH RAUM (*1977), following several research projects on the Bauhaus weaving workshop, is a specialist in Otti Berger's work. This book concludes her multi-year cooperative project with the Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin, for which she has for the first time extensively researched Berger's estate, scattered across archives worldwide.","brand":"Hatje Cantz Verlag","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49545052586248,"sku":"9783775755009","price":50.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8948\/8049\/files\/odoo_9783775755009_39014821-c408-44c8-9077-74d7638523b5.jpg?v=1744286713","url":"https:\/\/hatjecantz.de\/en\/products\/64980-otti-berger","provider":"Hatje Cantz Verlag","version":"1.0","type":"link"}