Anny Wottitz

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Anny Wottitz , also Anny Moller-Wottitz , (born May 19, 1900 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary , † July 30, 1945 in Haifa ) was an Austrian artisan and bookbinder.

Life

Born as the daughter of Irene and Josef Wottitz, Anny Wottitz studied with Friedl Dicker at Johannes Itten's private school in Vienna. Letters from the front from the composer Viktor Ullmann to his lover Anny Wottitz have been received from around 1917 . In 1919 she and Itten went to the Bauhaus in Weimar as part of the Vienna group . There she became an apprentice in Otto Dorfner's bookbinding class . At first she was an intern in bookbinding without an apprenticeship contract, which she only received in January 1921. She experimented with different techniques and materials and was inspired by Johannes Itten and Theo van Doesburg . In the collaboration with Dorfner there were always difficulties because he did not want to integrate into the Bauhaus style. In 1922, after completing her journeyman's examination, Wottitz took over the bookbinding workshop for seven months. On May 1, 1923, she moved to Berlin and then temporarily ran a studio with Friedl Dicker in Vienna. In 1924 she married the textile entrepreneur Hans Moller in Vienna and moved into a villa built by Adolf Loos . In 1926 their daughter Judith was born, with whom she emigrated to England. In 1940 she emigrated to Palestine, where she worked as a teacher. The correspondence with Friedl Dicker was handed over by her daughter to the University of Applied Arts in Vienna at the end of the 1990s .

literature

  • Volker Wahl, Ute Ackermann: The Master Council Protocols of the State Bauhaus Weimer 1919 to 1925. JB Metzler , Weimar 2001, ISBN 978-3-7400-1070-6 , p. 460 .
  • Klaus-Jürgen Winkler: Bauhaus albums 3: weaving, wall painting, glass painting, bookbinding, stone carving. Bauhaus University, Weimar 2008, ISBN 978-3-95773-023-7 .
  • Ulrike Müller: The smart women of Weimar. Mistresses, salon ladies, writers and artists . Sandmann, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-938045-19-0 .
  • Ilse Korotin (Ed.): BiografıA. Lexicon of Austrian Women. Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2016, ISBN 978-3-205-79590-2 .

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personal data
SURNAME Joke, Anny
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Moller-Wottitz, Anny (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian artisan and bookbinder
DATE OF BIRTH May 19, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH July 30, 1945
Place of death Haifa