Lis Beyer-Volger

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Lis Beyer-Volger , née Elisabeth Beyer (born August 27, 1906 in Hamburg ; † October 28, 1973 in Süchteln ) was a German textile designer , weaver and graphic artist . She was trained at the Bauhaus from 1923 and developed fabric samples and clothing from the mid-1920s. In 1928 she designed one of the few pieces of clothing at the Bauhaus, the short Bauhaus dress in the case style .

life and work

Lis Beyer-Volger
unknown photographer , 1929
Bauhaus Archive, Berlin

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After finishing school in 1923, Elisabeth Beyer began studying at the Bauhaus in Weimar . She first completed the preliminary course with Johannes Itten . She attended classes with Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee in Weimar . In the weaving workshop at the Bauhaus she was taught by Georg Muche and the master craftsman Helene Börner from the end of 1923 . In 1925 she went to Dessau and continued her training with Gunta Stölzl . In addition to her technical training, Lis Beyer also took part in the artistic activities of the Bauhaus. She took part in Oskar Schlemmer's theater performances and Bauhaus festivals as a singer and dancer and made stage costumes. She served as a photo model for many Bauhaus photographers, including T. Lux Feininger , Lotte Beese and Margit Kallin .

Beyer (white collar) with the weaving class (1927/28) on the Bauhaus stairs

On March 5, 1927, she passed her journeyman's examination as a weaver in front of the Chamber of Crafts in Dessau. To deepen her skills, she went to Krefeld and took a three-month course at the dyeing school. Back in Dessau, she founded a dye works at the Bauhaus and began developing sample fabrics as an employee in Gunta Stölzl's weaving mill. She designed so-called yard goods for industrial use and was involved in creating sample books for upholstery and clothing fabrics. In 1928 she designed the pale blue Bauhaus dress out of cotton and artificial silk .

Blue Bauhaus dress
Lis Beyer-Volger , 1928
Bauhaus Archive, Berlin

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In 1929 she passed the weaving master's examination at the Dessau Chamber of Crafts. In March 1929 she took over the hand-weaving class of the Polytechnic Central Association in Würzburg . She restructured the class based on the Bauhaus model and successfully sold the workshop's products in the years that followed.

In 1932 she married the architect Hans Volger , whom she met at the Bauhaus in Dessau. Volger was involved in the construction of the Masters ' Houses as an employee of Walter Gropius . After the wedding he worked as a freelance architect and studied engineering in Karlsruhe . In 1938, Hans Volger took up the position of city ​​architect in Krefeld.

Lis Beyer-Volger gave up her professional activity in Würzburg and moved to live with her husband in Krefeld. The couple had two children (Alexander and Elisabeth). During the Second World War , Beyer-Volger mainly devoted herself to household chores and child-rearing and only worked sporadically as a freelance tapestry weaver . After the war, the family lived in a house designed by Hans Volger in Krefeld, in which he had also integrated a room with a loom for his wife .

After the retirement of Hans Volger 1964 the couple moved to Bad Krozingen where Volger died 1973rd Shortly after the death of her husband, Lis Beyer-Volger fell ill and died on October 28, 1973 in her daughter's house in Süchteln.

Lis Beyer-Volger's works are shown in numerous art and design museums, including the Bauhaus Archive in Berlin, the art collections in Weimar and the Museum of Modern Western Art in Saint Petersburg .

literature

  • Sigrid Wortmann-Weltge: Women's Work: Textile art from the Bauhaus . 1993, ISBN 0-8118-0466-6 .
    • Sigrid Wortmann Weltge: Bauhaus textiles: art and artists in the weaving workshop . Translator Gabriele Gockel. Schaffhausen: Ed. Stemmle, 1993 ISBN 3-905514-09-5 .
  • Bettina Keß: A Bauhaus graduate in Würzburg: Lis Beyer . In: Bettina Keß, Beate Reese: Tradition and New beginnings: Würzburg and the art of the 1920s . 2003, ISBN 978-3-8260-2763-5 , pp. 137-141.
  • Frauke Hinneburg: Beyer-Volger, Lis . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 10, Saur, Munich a. a. 1994, ISBN 3-598-22750-7 , p. 345 f.
  • Lis Beyer-Volger . In: Patrick Rössler , Elizabeth Otto : Women at the Bauhaus. Pioneering modern artists. Knesebeck, Munich 2019. ISBN 978-3-95728-230-9 . Pp. 78-79.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bettina Keß, Beate Reese: Tradition and Awakening: Würzburg and the Art of the 1920s; November 15, 2003 - January 11, 2004, Museum in the Kulturspeicher Würzburg . Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2003, ISBN 3-8260-2763-9 , p. 137 .
  2. ^ Bauhaus : Photographs of Bauhaus students, teachers, and exhibits . OCLC 81840731 .
  3. ^ Jeannine Fiedler, Peter Feierabend (Ed.): Bauhaus . Könemann, Cologne 1999, ISBN 3-89508-600-2 , p. 472 .
  4. ^ 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 .
  5. ↑ Bauhaus dress. Retrieved March 7, 2019 .
  6. ↑ a b Beyer-Volger, Lis . In: General Artist Lexicon . KG Saur, Berlin, Boston 2019 ( degruyter.com ).
  7. ↑ a b c Bettina Keß, Beate Reese: Tradition and Awakening: Würzburg and the Art of the 1920s; November 15, 2003 - January 11, 2004, Museum in the Kulturspeicher Würzburg. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2003, ISBN 3-8260-2763-9 , p. 138 .
  8. ↑ a b Lis Beyer-Volger (1906–1973) - MIK project. Retrieved March 6, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Lis Beyer-Volger. In: bauhaus100.de. Retrieved March 6, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Beyer-Volger, Lis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Beyer, Elisabeth Wilhelmine Karoline (maiden name); Beyer-Volger, Lies; Beyer-Volger, Elisabeth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German textile designer and weaver
DATE OF BIRTH August 27, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH October 28, 1973
Place of death Addicts