GUNTA STÖLZL | Monika Stadler & Mirjam Deckers

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 the last 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).

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GUNTA STÖLZL DIGITAL ARCHIVE MIRJAM DECKERS ARIEH SHARON DIGITAL ARCHIVE

EXHIBITIONS "Gunta Stölzl and Johannes Itten. Textile Universes", 17 August – 1 December 2024, Kunsthalle Thun, Switzerland "Bauhaus and National Socialism", 9 May – 15 September 2024, Klassik Stiftung Weimar, Germany

**MUSEUMS & COLLECTIONS WITH GUNTA STÖLZL'S WORK ** VICTORIA & ALBERT MUSEUM, LONDON BAUHAUS-ARCHIV BERLIN MoMA, NEW YORK THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, NEW YORK HARVARD ART MUSEUMS, CAMBRIDGE, MASS. BAUHAUS DESSAU FOUNDATION NEUE PINAKOTHEK, MUNICH MUSEUM FÜR GESTALTUNG, ZURICH THE J. PAUL GETTY MUSEUM, CALIFORNIA 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

COVER PHOTO Portrait of Gunta Stölzl for her Bauhaus student ID-card, with permission by GUNTA STÖLZL DIGITAL ARCHIVE