Stölzl, Gunta

German weaver. She studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Munich and the Bauhaus in Weimar. At the Bauhaus she produced abstract wall hangings and blankets reflecting ideas about color and form derived from the influential preliminary course taught by Johannes Itten and Paul Klee. In 1925, she was appointed craft master of the weaving workshop. She designed textiles for a number of Breuer ‘s early chairs, including the African chair of 1921. In 1931, she helped found S. P. H. Stoffe, a hand-weaving mill in Zurich that produced fabrics for furniture and clothing. She had her own workshop in Zurich from 1937 to 1967.

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