Out of the Display Case: Otti Berger
Out of the Display Case: Otti Berger
Object talk
Out of the Display Case: Otti Berger.
Upholstery and curtain fabrics for modern architecture
Upholstery and curtain fabrics for modern architecture
11 Jun 2025
6 – 7:30 pm
6 – 7:30 pm
Free admission
Bauhaus Museum Dessau
Otti Berger studied at the Bauhaus in Dessau from 1926 to 1930, where she subsequently became deputy head of the weaving class from 1931 to 1932. This edition of the event series “Out of the Display Case” is dedicated to the textile artist and her artistic career after her time at the Bauhaus.
Based on a photograph taken by Albert Henning in 1933, in which he captured a curtain fabric falling in heavy folds based on a design by Otti Berger, this event is dedicated to the Bauhaus artist Otti Berger. The photograph is on display at the Bauhaus Museum Dessau.
Textile designer Otti Berger completed her training at the Bauhaus in Dessau between 1927 and 1930. She then went on to design timeless textile works as an independent entrepreneur in Berlin, pursuing a functionalist approach in which she reinterpreted the interplay between aesthetics and function.
The artist Judith Raum is intensively involved with Berger’s textile works. In 2024, she published her book Otti Berger. Weaving for Modernist Architecture. Raum’s work on Otti Berger, on which this lecture is based, provides a vision of what textiles were capable of achieving in modernist interiors – an area long neglected in architectural and design historiography.
With Judith Raum, artist and author, Berlin
Language: German