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Bauhaus Textiles and related work at the Loheland School and in Canada

The Bauhaus Textile Workshop, especially as it developed under the direction of Gunta Stölzl, not only produced innovative textile theory and products, it also ended up supporting the Bauhaus financially: upper register, left to right: bauhaus: zeitschrift für gestaltung (July-September 1929), back cover, showing Werner David Feist’s photograph of a loom from the Bauhaus Weaving Workshop and Fritz Kuhr’s photograph of a loop on a textile; Bauhausbücher Vol. 7: Walter Gropius, Neue Arbeiten der Bauhauswerkstätten [New Works of the Bauhaus Workshops] (1925), open to show a colour reproduction of Ruth Hollós’ weaving in synthetic silk (The Salgo Trust); Arts and Architecture (February 1949) showing a feature “Weavings by Ani Albers”; Bauhaus 4 (1927), front cover, showing Lis Beyer’s curtain materials; Lower register, left to right: Sigfried Giedion, Walter Gropius: Work and Teamwork, New York: Reinhold, 1954, open to show Lucia Moholy’s photographs of the Bauhaus in Dessau, including Gunta Stölzl’s “Bauhaus Blanket” on a bed in a dorm room -- a reedition of which is seen to the left of this display case, on the wall (University of Manitoba Libraries); Schulsiedlung Loheland Rhön -- brochure for the Loheland School, n.d. (ca. late 1920s), open to show material from the weaving workshop (as seen in nearby displays); Canadian Art (Christmas 1949-50), showing: Donald Rosser, “Who Designs Canadian Textiles?.” (Unless otherwise indicated, the documents in this case are from a private collection) bauhaus: zeitschrift für gestaltung (July 1931) showing Walter Peterhans’ closeup photograph of Margarete Leischner’s textile. (Unless otherwise indicated, objects are from a private collection)