Gunta Stölzl / Monika Stadler and Mirjam Deckers

Show notes

This episode is dedicated to the Bauhaus master Gunta Stölzl, one of the few better-known Bauhaus women. 

We have already mentioned her name in the previous podcast about Stölzl’s first husband, the Israeli architect Arieh Sharon. They had a daughter, Yael, what was born in 1929, do you remember? And Ariel Aloni, my interview partner for that episode is also Gunta Stölzl’s grandson. 

My interview partners for today’s episode are Gunta Stölzl’s younger daughter, Monika Stadler (who shares with us her personal view on her mother’s work) and the Dutch art historian Mirjam Deckers who is currently working for the Gunta Stölzl Estate and is writing her thesis about Stölzl’s work. As we already have two people talking in this podcast you will not hear much of me. My own research into Gunta Stölzl’s life and work is rather restricted, and I will therefore leave the talking to the expert and the daughter as they talk about Gunta Stölzl’s life and work in Munich (before the Bauhaus), as a student at the Bauhaus in Weimar, as a master of the weaving workshop at the Bauhaus in Dessau and with her own businesses in Switzerland (after the Bauhaus).

SHOW NOTES

bauhausfaces.com | @bauhausfaces | youtube.com/bauhausfaces

Cover photo with permission by GUNTA STÖLZL DIGITAL ARCHIVE https://www.guntastolzl.org/

MIRJAM DECKERS: ⁠https://www.rug.nl/staff/m.e.deckers/projects⁠

ARIEH SHARON DIGITAL ARCHIVE https://www.ariehsharon.org

EXHIBITIONS

Gunta Stölzl and Johannes Itten. Textile Universes 17 August – 1 December 2024 https://kunstmuseumthun.ch/en/exhibition/gunta-stoelzl-und-johannes-itten/

Bauhaus and National Socialism 9 May – 15 September 2024 https://www.klassik-stiftung.de/en/your-visit/event/bauhaus-and-national-socialism/

MUSEUMS & COLLECTIONS WITH GUNTA STÖLZL'S WORK Victoria & Albert Museum⁠, London, Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin, MoMA, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, Mass., Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, Neue Pinakothek, Munich, Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Cooper Hewitt / Smithsonian Design Museum, New York, Centre Pompidou, Paris, MK&G, Hamburg, Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz

BIOGRAPHY ABOUT GUNTA STÖLZL Ingrid Radewaldt: Gunta Stölzl. Pionierin der Bauhausweberei (2018)