Marli Ehrman

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Marli Ehrman (born Marie Helene Heimann December 17, 1904 in Berlin ; died October 25, 1982 in Santa Barbara , California ) was a German-American textile artist and designer.

Life

Marie Helene Heimann attended the higher Westend girls' school from 1912 to 1921 and was a boarding school student in Switzerland in 1921 . In 1923 she attended the arts and crafts school in Berlin . From the end of 1923 she studied at the Bauhaus Weimar and attended the preliminary course with László Moholy-Nagy and Josef Albers . After that it was intended for the weaving workshop. There she studied with Gunta Stölzl and also took courses with Paul Klee and Georg Muche . In 1927 she passed the journeyman's examination in Glauchau and received the Bauhaus certificate. In 1926/27 she worked independently in the experimental facility of the weaving workshop. She then studied at the University of Jena and passed her elementary school teacher examination in Hamburg in 1931. In 1932/33 she was a teacher at the Selent reformatory in Holstein. After the handover of power to the National Socialists , she was only able to work in Jewish schools. From 1934 to 1937 she was a teacher at the Berlin Theodor Herzl School , where she met her husband Elizeer L. Ehrmann, who was also the author of “ Jewish Reading Books ”.

Ehrman emigrated to the USA in 1938. There she found employment until 1947 at the Chicago School of Design founded by Moholy-Nagy . She also gave evening classes at Hull House on the side . In 1941 she won the MoMA competition for "organic design". She had orders from the furniture industry and worked with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe for the construction project developer Herbert Greenwald . In addition to interior and office furnishings, she also designed the interior of the Oak Park City Library . In 1956 she founded the Elm Shop in Oak Park , "in which numerous avant-garde designs were created and which she managed until her retirement."

literature

  • Christine Rohrschneider: Ehrman, Marli . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 32, Saur, Munich a. a. 2002, ISBN 3-598-22772-8 , p. 476.
  • Sigrid Wortmann Weltge: Bauhaus textiles: art and artists in the weaving workshop . Translation from the American. Schaffhausen: Ed. Stemmle, 1993. Brief biography p. 176f. and table on p. 202

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Otto Dov Kulka (Ed.): German Judaism under National Socialism . Part: Vol. 1. Documents on the history of the Reich representation of German Jews 1933 - 1939. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 1993, p. 278
  2. ↑ Sigrid Wortmann Weltge: Bauhaus textiles , 1993, p 178
personal data
SURNAME Ehrman, Marli
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Marie Helene Heimann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American textile artist and designer
DATE OF BIRTH December 17, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH October 25, 1982
Place of death Santa Barbara (California)