Lotte Stam-Beese
Otti Berger and Atelierhaus

Otti Berger and Atelierhaus

© Estate of Lotte Stam Beese

Otti Berger and Atelierhaus
Otti Berger and Atelierhaus
CultureGerman
Titles
  • Otti Berger and Atelierhaus
Date1930
PlaceGermany
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 4 1/8 × 3 1/16 in. (10.5 × 7.8 cm)
Sheet: 4 1/4 × 3 3/16 in. (10.8 × 8.1 cm)
Credit LineGift of Manfred Heiting, The Manfred Heiting Collection
Object number2002.2335
Non exposé

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Description

Lotte
Stam Beese created this work by superimposing a photograph of Otti Berger over
an image of the Bauhaus studio building in 1928. The Bauhaus was Germany’s most
advanced school of modern design. Stam Beese studied architecture, weaving, and
photography at the Bauhaus; Otti Berger was one of the school’s most well-known
weavers.




In Stam Beese’s photograph, the linear structure
of the Bauhaus balconies adds a sense of assertiveness and hope to Berger’s
feminine face. Nevertheless, destiny did not favor this gifted weaver. In 1939,
while visiting her ailing mother in Yugoslavia, Berger was seized by the Nazis
and died in a concentration camp.


ProvenanceGalerie Rudolf Kicken, Cologne.

Bought by Manfred Heiting from Galerie Rudolf Kicken GbmH.
Exhibition History"Utopia/ Dystopia: Construction and Destruction in Photography and Collage," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 11 March - 10 June, 2012.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
verso several lines of very vertical handwriting in ink and what may be a signature and a date[all of which are illegible]
verso each of the four corners has a square of tape the top surface of which has been pulled away

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