left to right: Werner David Feist, Grete Reichardt, The Bauhaus Weaver, 1930, archival photographic print (School of Art Gallery). A close friend of Werner David Feist, Grete Reinhardt was one of the remarkable group of women who, advised to enter the Weaving Workshop, one of the two female “ghettos” at the Bauhaus (the other was Ceramics), transformed that formerly marginal area into a leading aspect of Bauhaus theory and design – not to mention income. This was largely the work of the only female “Master” at the design school, Gunta Stölzl. Reinhardt is regarded as one of the most successful graduates of this textile program. It is noteworthy that many Bäuhausler with whom the Weiningers kept in touch after they left the School were also graduates of the Weaving Workshop; T. Lux Feininger, Gunta Stölzl and students of The Bauhaus Weaving Workshop on the staircase of the Dessau Bauhaus, 1930; Lucia Moholy, Portrait of Eva Fernbach (Weininger), ca. 1927.
Werner David Feist
Grete Reichardt, The Bauhaus Weaver
1930
archival photographic print
24 cm x 18 cm
University of Manitoba School of Art Gallery Collection
Gift of Ursula Feist U of M collection
Photographers: Pani Bolbolabadi and Zoë LeBrun
Courtesy of the School of Art Gallery, University of Manitoba