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Gertrud Arndt Otti Berger in the Canteen on their last day of the Bauhaus, Dessau 1932 Gelatin silver print. 23.2 x 15.6 cm. (9 1/8 x 6 1/8 in). Dated in pencil on the mount; signed in ink and credit stamp on the reverse of the mount.
Provenance Acquired directly from the artist Literature Das Verborgene Museum, Gertrud Arndt 1994, p. 19 Catalogue Essay Gertrud Arndt (1903–2000) studied at the Bauhaus 1921–1927, and worked as a teacher between 1929–1932. She married the Bauhaus school architect Alfred Arndt Otti Berger (1898–1944) arrived to study textiles at the Bauhaus from 1927,where she met Gertrud and studied under Moholy-Nagy, Klee and Kandinsky. After obtaining her Bauhaus Diploma in 1930 Otti remained to supervise the weaving course, until the Bauhaus closure. She died in Auschwitz in 1944. Gertrud Arndt continued to live and work in Damstradt until she died aged 97. Read More