Bauhaus dress
| Blue Bauhaus dress |
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| Lis Beyer-Volger , 1928 |
| Bauhaus Archive, Berlin
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The Bauhaus dress is a case - style dress designed by Lis Beyer-Volger at the Bauhaus in Dessau in 1928 .
description
The Bauhaus dress is one of the few items of clothing that were designed at the Bauhaus and have survived to this day. The dress has a straight, slightly waisted cut in the style of the shift dress presented by Coco Chanel in 1926, which went down in fashion history as the Little Black . Lis Beyer chose a material mixture of woven cotton and rayon for the fabric . The pattern of the dress has different thick gray and blue horizontal stripes. In terms of color, it is kept in delicate, pale blue tones, which negates the coarseness of the material.
The total length of the garment is 101 centimeters. When worn, the dress ends just above the knee and was therefore considered a mini dress at the time of creation . Due to its waistline , brevity and cleavage , it is believed that the dress was offensive at the time. Lis Beyer-Volger reduced her clothing design to a puristic, functional minimum. It is plain and simple and still looks graceful. According to the fashion designer Wolfgang Joop , the dress freed its wearers from the "role of the decorative prestige object of the imperious men's society".
The fabric of the dress was woven by Lis Beyer in the weaving workshop at the Bauhaus in Dessau; this is where the dress was made. It is no longer in its original condition. It was reworked in the 1960s, which can be seen on the sewing thread .
literature
- Wolfgang Joop : The reduced need. Lis Volger's Bauhaus dress . In: Bauhaus Archive | Museum of Design, Bauhaus Dessau Foundation and Weimar Classic Foundation (ed.): Modell bauhaus , Ostfildern, p. 252.
Web links
- Bauhaus dress Lis Beyer-Volger, 1928 at bauhaus100
- Woman in the B3 club chair by Marcel Breuer with a Bauhaus dress , photo by Erich Consemüller
Individual evidence
- ↑ Elizabeth Otto; Patrick Rössler: Bauhaus women: a global perspective . Bloomsbury Publishing, London 2019, ISBN 978-1-912217-98-4 , pp. 78 f .
- ^ Karl R. Kegler, Anna Minta, Niklas Naehrig: RaumKleider: Connections between architectural space, body and dress . Bielefeld 2018, ISBN 978-3-8394-3625-7 , p. 91 .
- ↑ Michael Siebenbrodt, Lutz Schöbe: Bauhaus 1919-1933: Weimar-Dessau-Berlin . Parkstone Press International, New York 2009, ISBN 978-1-78042-516-0 , pp. 145 .
- ^ Johanna Di Blasi: The cantilever avant-garde in HAZ from July 21, 2009