{"product_id":"66142-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 floor coverings, she worked closely with New Building architects such as Lilly Reich, Ludwig Hilberseimer, and Hans Scharoun. She designed for novel functional demands, thereby redefining the interplay of aesthetics and function – with fascinating results that are still aesthetically and functionally convincing today. Berger's textile work has so far been little researched; the artist Judith Raum succeeds here for the first time in comprehensively presenting the complexity and beauty of her fabrics and bringing them back to life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Image 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 from 1921 – 1926 in Zagreb, and from 1927 at the Bauhaus in Dessau. After teaching at the Bauhaus, she became self-employed in Berlin in 1932 and designed fabric collections for modern interiors throughout Europe. In 1936, as a Jew, she was banned from her profession; attempts to flee to England and the USA failed. In 1944, she was deported from Croatia to Auschwitz and murdered there. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe visual artist and art historian JUDITH RAUM (*1977), as a result of 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 comprehensively researched Berger's estate, which is scattered across archives worldwide.","brand":"Hatje Cantz Verlag","offers":[{"title":"Book (978-3-7757-5641-9)","offer_id":51838909251848,"sku":"9783775756419","price":50.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"Ebook - PDF (978-3-7757-6004-1)","offer_id":51838909284616,"sku":"9783775760041","price":44.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8948\/8049\/files\/odoo_9783775756419.jpg?v=1751010980","url":"https:\/\/hatjecantz.de\/en\/products\/66142-otti-berger","provider":"Hatje Cantz Verlag","version":"1.0","type":"link"}