Margarete Koehler-Bittkow
Margarete Koehler-Bittkow (also Margarete Bittkow-Koehler , nee Bittkow ; born April 22, 1897 in Groß Lübars , † 1964 in Belmont , Massachusetts ) was a German textile artist and painter.
Life
Margarete Bittkow attended the textile class of the Bauhaus in Weimar from 1919 to 1923 and studied a. a. with Lyonel Feininger , Paul Klee and Gunta Stölzl . In 1920 she married the art historian and director of the state art collections in Weimar, Wilhelm Koehler . With him and her two sons she emigrated to the USA in 1934 , where her husband taught as a professor at Harvard University . Many of the Bauhaus artists who emigrated to the USA frequented her house.
While at the Bauhaus she mainly made weaving mills , in the USA she mainly worked as a painter.
literature
- Gunta Stölzl. Weaving at the Bauhaus and from our own workshop. Kupfergraben-Verlag, Berlin 1987, p. 157.
- Sigrid Wortmann Weltge: Bauhaus textiles: art and artists in the weaving workshop . Translation from the American. Schaffhausen: Ed. Stemmle, 1993, p. 201
Web links
- Vita
- Online exhibition with numerous work examples
- Works by Margarete Bittkow-Koehler in the Harvard Art Museums
Individual evidence
- ↑ at Weltge different life dates for Margarete Bittkow-Köhler
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Koehler-Bittkow, Margarete |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bittkow, Margarete (maiden name); Bittkow-Koehler, Margarete |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German textile artist and painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 22, 1897 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Great Lübars |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1964 |
| Place of death | Belmont, Massachusetts |