Weavers and textile designers who studied or taught at the Bauhaus, the German design school whose weaving workshop made modern geometric cloth for industry. A textile artist belongs here when the cited article says the person studied or taught at the Bauhaus. It excludes textile artists of the Arts and Crafts movement and of contemporary fiber art. Their woven cloth, wall hangings and industrial fabrics put geometry, color and new materials to use in modern homes and offices, and a textile artist is placed here by the school the cited article names for the person.
Bauhaus Textile Artists
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Anni Albers - Wikipedia
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She later enrolled at the Bauhaus, an avant-garde art and architecture school founded by Walter Gropius in Weimar in 1922.
Gunta Stölzl (Wikipedia)
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Gunta Stölzl (5 March 1897-22 April 1983) was a German textile artist who played a fundamental role in the development of the Bauhaus school's weaving workshop, where she created enormous change as it transitioned from individual pictorial works to modern industrial designs.
Wikipedia: Otti Berger
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Otti Berger (Otilija Ester Berger) (4 October 1898, in present-day Zmajevac, Croatia - 3 May 1944) was a Croatian student and later teacher at the Bauhaus, where she was a textile artist and weaver.
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