Lotte Stam-Beese

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Lotte Beese as an architecture student at the Bauhaus Dessau, around 1928

Charlotte Ida Anna "Lotte" Stam-Beese (born Beese; born January 28, 1903 in Reisicht ; † November 18, 1988 in Amsterdam ) was a German photographer, architect and urban planner . She was involved in the reconstruction of Rotterdam after the Second World War .

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Beese was born in Reisicht, Silesia (now Rokitki , Poland ). She found her first job as a weaver in Dresden . From 1926 she was a student at the Bauhaus in Dessau , where she studied with Josef Albers , Wassily Kandinsky , Joost Schmidt and Gunta Stölzl . Although she was enrolled to learn to weave, she took courses in photography and architecture , which led to a career change.

In 1927 she was one of the first women to attend the Bauhaus architecture faculty and the first woman to study with Hannes Meyer and Hans Wittwer . She continued to work with Meyer in Berlin after she left the Bauhaus. She later followed him to Moscow to work for Mart Stam , whom she later married. In Stam's hometown of Amsterdam , she ran her own architecture office until the mid-1930s. It is best known for rebuilding the city of Rotterdam after the end of the war. Among other things, she helped set up Pendrecht , Alexanderpolder and Ommoord . She later accepted a position as a lecturer at the Academy for Architecture and Urban Planning in Amsterdam.

Before starting her career in architecture, Beese was a successful photographer . However, she only worked professionally for a brief period between 1926 and 1928. Her work was published frequently. They are now part of the collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Arthur M. Sackler Museum and the J. Paul Getty Museum .

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  1. ↑ Pendrecht . In: architectureguide .
  2. ↑ Lotte Beese (-Stam) . In: Bauhaus Online . Archived from the original on July 5, 2015. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved May 31, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / bauhaus-online.de
  3. ↑ a b c John Brosma: Beese, Charlotte Ida Anna (1903-1988) ( Dutch ) In: Online Dictionary of Dutch Women . Huygens ING.
  4. ↑ Lotte Beese (-Stam) . In: Bauhaus Online . Archived from the original on November 7, 2017. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved November 6, 2017. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bauhaus100.de
  5. ↑ Pendrecht . In: architectureguide .
  6. ^ Mario Bosch: Pendrecht ( Dutch ) In: Mario-bosch.nl .
  7. ↑ Audrey Sands: Lotte (Charlotte) Beese . In: Moma.org .
  8. ↑ http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/artists/1367/lotte-beese-german-1903-1988/
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SURNAME Stam-Beese, Lotte
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Beese, Charlotte Ida Anna Beese (maiden name); Stam-Beese, Lotte
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and urban planner
DATE OF BIRTH January 28, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Reisicht
DATE OF DEATH November 18, 1988
Place of death Amsterdam