Judith Raum gave a talk on Otti Berger. Weaving for Modernist Architecture at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (19/11/2024)
The textile designer Otti Berger was a core member of the experimental approach to textiles at the Bauhaus and a female entrepreneur in the frenzied time that was the early 1930s in Berlin. Working closely with architects of the New Objectivity movement such as Lilly Reich, Ludwig Hilberseimer and Hans Scharoun, she designed interior fabrics that responded to novel types of use and production methods, and thereby redefined the relationship between aesthetics and function―with fascinating results. She was ultimately banned from working by the Nazis because she was Jewish, spending two difficult years of professional exile in London.
Judith Raum has conducted artistic research in European and North American archives to complete the first comprehensive study of Berger’s scattered estate. On the occasion of the release of Otti Berger: Weaving for Modernist Architecture, published by Hatje Cantz and edited for Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin, Raum gave a talk on November 19, 2024 at the V&A, London. The book was recently shortlisted Book of the Year by the Apollo Awards 2024.
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