Kitty van der Mijll Dekker

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Kitty van der Mijll Dekker (born February 22, 1908 in Jogyakarta, Lampung Province , Sumatra , Dutch East Indies ; died December 6, 2004 in Nijkerk ) was a Dutch textile artist.

Life

Catharina Louisa (Kitty) van der Mijll Dekker attended school in The Hague from 1917 to 1925 and then went on trips to Switzerland, England and the USA. She began to study art at the Hornsey School of Art in London and studied from 1929 to 1932 in the weaving workshop of the Bauhaus in Dessau . In 1931 she passed the journeyman's examination and received the Bauhaus diploma in 1932.

Dekker set up a workshop for hand weaving in Nunspeet and cooperated with the neighboring weaver Greten Kähler and her husband Hermann Fischer. Between 1935 and the 1960s she worked as a textile designer for the underwear factory EJF van Dissel Eindhoven . At the Milan Triennale in 1933 she received a silver medal for cellophane fabrics , in 1935 she was awarded at the Brussels World Exhibition , and in 1937 at the Paris World Exhibition . From 1938 onwards she received repeated commissions for decorations for official occasions from the Dutch royal family. In 1950 she and Hermann Fischer married. From 1934 to 1979, Dekker taught at the Instituut voor Kunstnijverheidsonderwijs in Amsterdam , which later became the Gerrit Rietveld Academie. She was a member of the artists' association Architectura et Amicitia .

In 2007 an exhibition of her works was held in the Tilburg TextielMuseum .

literature

  • Sigrid Wortmann Weltge: Bauhaus textiles: art and artists in the weaving workshop . Schaffhausen: Ed. Stemmle, 1993 ISBN 3-905514-09-5 , p. 206
  • Caroline Boot; Vimal Korstjens; Hanneke Oosterhof: In the spoor van het Bauhaus: weefwerk van Kitty van der Mijll Dekker . Tilburg: Textielmuseum Tilburg, 2007 ISBN 907096239X
  • Kitty Fischer van der Mijll Dekker . In: Patrick Rössler , Elizabeth Otto : Women at the Bauhaus. Pioneering modern artists. Knesebeck, Munich 2019. ISBN 978-3-95728-230-9 . Pp. 146-149.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Greten Kaeler , at biografisch portaal (nl)
  2. ↑ to Hermann Fischer, see Sigrid Wortmann Weltge: Bauhaus textiles: art and artists of the weaving workshop . Schaffhausen: Ed. Stemmle, 1993 ISBN 3-905514-09-5 , p. 202
personal data
SURNAME Mijll Dekker, Kitty van der
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch textile artist
DATE OF BIRTH February 22, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Jogyakarta, Lampung Province , Sumatra , Dutch East Indies
DATE OF DEATH December 6, 2004
Place of death Nijkerk