Margarete Dambeck-Keller

Margarete Dambeck-Keller , née Dambeck, (born June 5, 1908 in Göppingen ; † April 29, 1952 there ) was a German textile designer .

Life

Margarete Dambeck-Keller was the fourth and youngest daughter of a master brush maker and councilor in Göppingen, where she grew up. After graduating from high school for girls, she attended a women's labor school. There she dealt with fashion and drawing. A childhood friend and Bauhaus student convinced her to go to the Bauhaus in Dessau . In 1927 she enrolled there and took the preliminary course with Josef Albers . Then she went to the weaving workshop under Gunta Stölzl . After graduating in 1930, Margarete Dambeck-Keller got a job at a haute couture fashion house in Prague . In Prague she was friends with the former Bauhaus student Werner David Feist . In 1933 she became a pattern designer at a textile company for artistic fabrics in Reichenbach, Silesia . She campaigned for an exit visa for the Jewish entrepreneurial family to Great Britain, which thus escaped internment. In 1942 she married Walter Keller from Offenbach and moved in with him. Dambeck-Keller had a child with her husband, who died in 1943. After being bombed out by air raids during World War II , she moved to her home town of Göppingen. There she opened a studio for artistic weaving patterns. In the post-war period , their fabrics met with great demand. In 1952, she died of a stroke at the age of 43 .

literature

• Margarete Dambeck-Keller . In: Patrick Rössler , Elizabeth Otto : Women at the Bauhaus. Pioneering modern artists. Knesebeck, Munich 2019. ISBN 978-3-95728-230-9 . Pp. 102-103.