Hanna Musiolek

Johanna "Hanna" Musiolek (born January 27, 1931 in Aussig , Czechoslovakia ) is a German fashion designer and graphic artist .

Live and act

Hanna Musiolek comes from a wealthy merchant dynasty in Aussig. Driven from the north Bohemian homeland by the war, she grew up in Mecklenburg . Despite poor conditions, her parents gave her a cultural education.

Musiolek began to sew costumes, jackets and trousers from old uniforms at an early age. She completed an apprenticeship as a dressmaker, which she finished in 1949. Because teachers were urgently needed in the post-war period, she began studying at the Institute for Teacher Training in Neukloster, but left after a year ahead of schedule and without a degree. In 1950 she moved to the Textile and Clothing College in Berlin (now the Berlin University of Technology and Economics ) and studied fashion design until 1953. In the newly founded fashion institute of the GDR she works as a mannequin and fashion illustrator .

From 1955 she studied fashion design again, but this time at the University of Applied Arts in Berlin-Weißensee . Shortly before graduating in 1958, she had to leave the university due to a reprimand. This was followed by a family-related break.

She found her professional home as a draftsman and fashion designer from 1962 after the birth of her three children at the fashion institute of the GDR. As the designer and developer of the sample collections, she was responsible for shirts, festive wear, workwear and special collections.

From 1969 onwards, as chief designer at the VEB Textilkombinat Cottbus , she accompanied the establishment and development of a women's collection. She saw her one-year task as chief designer in an industrial company in the combination of craft, machines and technology, new yarns and ideas for collections.

In 1970 she returned to the GDR fashion institute, where from then on she coordinated the GDR collections for the USSR . In 1973 she exchanged this mainly administrative-organizational and less creative activity for a creative position at VHB Exquisit, where she initially worked as a designer for model and pattern construction.

Between 1975 and 1977 she made up for her diploma in part-time evening studies at the Berlin-Weißensee School of Art. After graduating from 1977, she designed two collections of “heavy” women's outerwear every year. Musiolek's designs for the VHB Exquisit have received multiple awards and were also exhibited at the Xth GDR Art Exhibition in Dresden .

Since 1954 she was married to Berndt Musiolek. Their children were born in 1958, 1959 and 1961. Hanna Musiolek lives near Berlin.

Drawing work

As a fashion designer, Musiolek used her drawing talent in a variety of ways. Pattern designers could also read fleeting sketches and turn them into models. But the fashion graphics of the 1970s and 1980s were also shaped and influenced by them. Musiolek's fashion graphics have been published in magazines such as Sibylle and Pramo , as have their designs and models.

Exhibitions (selection)

• 1987/88: Xth art exhibition of the GDR , Dresden
• 2016: magic of the fleeting. Fashion graphics Paris - Berlin 1970–2016. BEST-Sabel Vocational School for Design Berlin
• 2019: Between appearance and reality. Fashion graphics in the GDR 1960–1989. Reinbekhallen Berlin

Publications

Annette Blank: Hanna Musiolek. Fashion: one life. With fashion graphics and drawings 1952–1990 by Hanna Musiolek. Neunplus1, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-93603-347-2

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Annette Blank: Hanna Musiolek. Fashion: one life. Neunplus1, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-936033-47-2 .
2. ^ X. Art Exhibition of the GDR . In: Association of Visual Artists of the GDR (ed.): Exhibition catalog . 1987.
3. ↑ Press release: Magic of the fleeting. BEST-Sabel Berlin, September 23, 2016, accessed on September 4, 2019 . 
4. ↑ Between appearance and reality. Fashion graphics in the GDR 1960–1989. Reinbek Hallen Berlin, 2018, accessed on September 4, 2019 .