Otti Berger

Otti Berger (1898 to 1944) was a Croatian textile artist and weaver who became a leading figure at the Bauhaus, where she studied under Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky and was considered one of the most talented students at the Dessau weaving workshop. She headed the Bauhaus weaving workshop from 1931 and was the only Bauhaus weaver to patent her own textile designs, securing patents in Germany in 1934 and London in 1937. After the Bauhaus closed she ran her own design studio in Berlin, creating industrial textiles for manufacturers until Nazi persecution forced its closure in 1936. She fled to London, later returned to Croatia, and was deported to Auschwitz, where she was murdered in 1944 at the age of forty five.